At 19:30 GMT on October 24th, Shandong Taishan, the defending champions, hosted Guangzhou in the 19th round of the Chinese Super League. Liu Yang scored the first goal for Shandong Taishan with a header in the first 12 minutes. Then, in the 24th minute, Klassen scored a long-distance shot to give his team another victory. After halftime, Klassen scored again in the 76th minute for a hat trick. In the end, Shandong Taishan won 3-0 against Guangzhou to draw level with table leader Wuhan Sanzhen with one game to spare, while Guangzhou has not won for eight consecutive rounds.
In the first 20 rounds of Chinese Super League matches, Shandong Taishan scored 44 goals and conceded 17 with 15 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses, and ranked second in the table with 47 points, just behind Wuhan Sanzhen. Guangzhou, with all Chinese teams, won 3, drew 3, and lost 14, and ranked third from bottom in the league with 12 points, 5 points away from Wuhan Changjiang. Guangzhou's offense has obvious problems and is the second lowest goal-scoring team in the Chinese Super League.
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In the 9th minute of the game, Taishan broke the ball and launched a counterattack, Moises passed the ball to the center, Chen Pu shot from the outside but shot the ball high.
In the 12th minute, Sun Junhao punished a corner kick on the right side, Liu Yang jumped up and grabbed a header before Yang Liyu, Shandong Taishan 1-0 lead, which is also Liu Yang's second goal of the season.
In the 24th minute, Moises passed to the right side of the box, Song Long followed up without stopping the ball, directly to the periphery of the ball Cressan, the Brazilian met the ball left-footed shot, the ball hit Wu Shaochong refracted into the net, Shandong Taishan 2-0 lead, Cressan scored his 13th goal of the season.
In the 76th minute, Moises broke the ball straight after the backfield, Kressan left road breakthrough cross in front of the door, Moises grabbed the shot was blocked by the goalkeeper, Kressan grabbed the point in the melee and broke the goal again, Shandong Taishan 3-0 lead.
In the end, Shandong Taishan defeated Guangzhou with a score of 3-0.
Shandong Taishan: 14-Wang Dalei, 5-Zheng Zheng, 11-Liu Yang, 16-Li Hailong, 27-Shi Ke, 39-Song Long, 28-Sun Junhao, 10-Moyses, 7-Guo Tianyu, 9-Cressan, 29-Chen Pu
Guangzhou: 19-Zhang Jianzhi, 5-Wu Shaochong, 6-Li Yang, 44-Rong Hao, 15-Yan Dinghao, 34-Hou Yu, 17-Yang Liyu, 46-Artemis Junmin, 18-Fan Hengbo, 22-Efirdin Eskal, 28-Ling Jie
