At 7:30 p.m. Beijing time on August 13th, Guangzhou City hosted Wuhan Changjiang in the 12th round of the 2022 Chinese Super League. Soon after the game started, it was a one-sided affair. Forbes opened the scoring in the first half with an open goal, then scored twice with a header from a corner kick, while Xu Dong's precise cross caused Eaton's oops. In the second half, Forbes added a hat-trick to complete a 5-0 sweep.
[Race Rundown]
Guangzhou City has been in a slump recently, losing 0-3 to Wuhan Sanzhen in the last round of the league, and is now in the bottom two of the league with 3 points from 1 win and 10 losses. Wuhan Changjiang lost 1-2 to Meizhou Hakka in the last round, but their overall performance is quite good and they are in the 12th place of the league with 13 points. In this match, Guangzhou City played with a single foreigner, while Wuhan Changjiang sent three foreigners, Bruno, Forbes and Cajevic, to start the match.
[Highlights]
Wuhan Changjiang got off to a dream start just 2 minutes into the game, Bruno headed in a corner kick, Cheng Yuelei made a save but couldn't stop the goal, Li Peng then added the second to give them a 1-0 lead!
In the 6th minute, Wuhan Changjiang extended the score again, Forbes took a header from a corner kick in the box and Cheng Yuelei couldn't make a save to make it 2-0!
Wuhan Changjiang scored another goal in the 11th minute when Xu Dong crossed from the left and Kajevic's header failed to score directly, but the ball smashed into Guangzhou City's Eagle and went into the net for a 3-0 lead!
In the 16th minute, Wuhan Changjiang launched an attack from the left side, Kajevic's header was swung in and Forbes broke the net with a grounded chop to make it 4-0!
In the 28th minute, Wuhan Changjiang's cross from the right side was headed over the crossbar by Hu Jinghang. In the 30th minute, Wuhan Changjiang's free kick from the right side of the field flew out of the bottom line and scraped against the far post.
The first half ended with Wuhan Changjiang leading Guangzhou City 4-0.
Both sides made adjustments in the second half, but failed to change the score. Until the 86th minute, Wuhan Changjiang's cross was sent over the top, Li Peng was unmarked and shot from a small angle, the ball was refracted into the net, 5-0!
At the end of the match, Wuhan Changjiang thrashed Guangzhou City 5-0 on the road.
[Both lineups]
Guangzhou City start: 1-Cheng Yuelei, 18-Eagle, 19-Jiang Jihong, 35-Liao Jiajun (U23), 41-Wu Junjie (U23), 4-Zhang Gong (82'30-Chen Yajun (U23)), 10-Li Tixiang, 32-Chen Zhizhao (56'16-Chen Junle), 38-Li Yongjia (U23) (73'15-Wang Peng), 7-Cardona (73'34-Wei Feng (U23)), 29-Song Wenjie (82'40-Yang Yang (U23))
Substitutes not playing: 26-Long Wenhao, 20-Tang Miao, 31-Zhang Jinliang (U23), 6-Fan Yunlong, 13-Ningan, 9-Gui Hong, 33-Jinbo
Wuhan Changjiang start: 1-Wang Zhifeng, 2-Li Peng, 5-Bruno, 15-Mingming, 28-Hu Dong, 16-Kajevic (46' 11-Hu Rentian), 17-Zhang Huajun (U23) (74' 26-Liu Yun), 18-Nie Aoshuang, 33-Ye Chongqiu (74') 24-Hu Jiakasa (U23)), 10-Forbes (85'29-Wenda (U23)), 19-Hu Jinghang
Unattached substitutes: 23-Gao Xiang, 3-Han Xuan, 6-Li Chao, 7-Luo Yi, 12-Liu Shangkun, 36-Huang Xuheng (U23), 21-Wang Jingbin
