At 17:30 Beijing time on September 29th, the 18th round of the Chinese Super League (CSL) was held at the Dalian Sports Center Stadium, where Shanghai Seaport and Chengdu Rongcheng competed against each other. Lv Wenjun broke the deadlock in the 21st minute, then Wu Lei scored his first goal since joining Shanghai Seaport in the 40th minute, and then in the 51st minute, he showed his skills again and scored twice. In the end, Shanghai Seaport won all three points with a score of 3-0, winning three consecutive matches and moving up to the third place in the table.
[Race Review]
Shanghai Seaport had won two consecutive matches prior to the game and climbed to fifth in the table. This time, Wu Lei made his first debut for Seaport, which also means that he returned to the Chinese Super League (CSL) after a gap of 1,418 days since November 11, 2018. It is worth mentioning that the last time Wu Lei made his debut in the Chinese Super League was on behalf of Shanghai Harbor against Tianjin Quanjian.
[Highlights]
At the beginning of the match, Chengdu Rongcheng's Dangyou Jin took the ball on the left side of the box and tried to shoot from a small angle, but the ball ended up going off the line.
Immediately after, in the 7th minute, Harbour backfield long pass to the front, Wu Lei with speed advantage to kill into the penalty area, forming a one-touch goal, but Chengdu goalkeeper Zhang Yan timely save to solve the danger.
In the 11th minute, Chengdu Rongcheng's Saldaña fired a left-footed shot from outside the box, but the ball went wide.
In the 18th minute, Wu Guichao took a long-range shot from the front of the box, the ball was refracted and nearly broke through, but Hemiti's header went wide.
In the 21st minute, Vargas passed the ball to Paulinho, who sent a precise pass from the top position of the arc, and Lv Wenjun followed up and pushed a shot to the far corner of the goal, giving Shanghai Harbour a 1-0 lead.
In the 37th minute, Wu Lei grabbed Mutalifu and made a ball to Paulinho, Richards struggled to shovel the ball, and Vargas on the periphery of the right-footed long-distance shot grazed the right side of the post and went wide.
In the 40th minute, Chengdu Rongcheng backfield pass error, Wu Lei breaks the ball after the long-distance hanging shot, the ball flew over the goalkeeper's fingertips into the goal, which is also Wu Lei's first goal in the Chinese Super League after his return to the Shanghai seaport 2-0 lead.
In the 51st minute, Paulinho left ribs facing the pack forced to cut inside and sent a precise diagonal, Wu Lei inserted in the middle of the penalty area and pushed the goal, the second time, Shanghai seaport 3-0 lead.
In the 60th minute, Chengdu Rongcheng substitute Felipe was replaced as he was unable to hold on due to a thigh strain.
Wu Lei, who scored two goals, was replaced by Li Shenglong in the 67th minute.
In the 75th minute, Jiang Guangtai brought down Kim Dae-jeong-woo near the top of the arc and Chengdu Rongcheng won a well-positioned free kick, which was headed to the left corner of the goal by Romulo, and Yan Junling dove to block the ball out.
In the end, Shanghai Seaport beat Chengdu Rongcheng 3-0.
Shanghai Harbour: 1-Yan Junling, 2-Li Ang, 3-Jiang Guangtai, 4-Wang Stanley Chiu, 13-Wei Zhen, 6-Cai Huikang, 16-Xu Xin (67'29-Zhang Huachen), 7-Wu Lei (67'14-Li Shenglong), 9-Paulinho, 11-Lv Wenjun (60'15- Li Shenyuan), 24-Vargas (80'25-Buytijiang)
Unattached substitutes: 12-Chen Wei, 22-Dujia, 21-Yu Hai, 32-Li Shuai, 37-Chen Xu Huang (U23), 14-Li Shenglong, 26-Chen Chunxin, 39-Liu Baiyang (U23)
Chengdu Rongcheng: 33-Zhang Yan, 17-Gan Rui, 20-Abdu Hemiti, 26-Liu Tao, 40-Richard, 10-Romulo, 11-Jin Dangyou, 15-Wu Guichao (64'27-Liu Bin), 29-Mutalifu (U23), 39-Gan Chao (79'22-Hu Xingyu (U23)), 12-Sardanha (46'9-Felipe (60'21-Meng Junjie (U23)))
Unattached substitutes: 24-Xing Yu, 14-Han Guanghui, 18-Min Junlin, 19-Xiang Baixu, 28-Wang Hanlin, 31-Yang Ting, 36-Gou Junchen
