Goulart hat-trick as Evergrande sinks Wanderers
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GUANGZHOU Evergrande striker Ricardo Goulart justified his staggering price tag by scoring a hat-trick for the Chinese champion in its 3-2 win at holders Western Sydney Wanderers in their AFC Champions League clash yesterday.
The 23-year-old Brazilian, who joined the big-spending Chinese Super League winner in January for a record 15-million euro (US$16.70 million) fee, scored in the 19th minute and then netted twice more in the second half to give Guangzhou its second win in Group H.
Iacopo La Rocca found the equalizer in the 57th for the hosts but Goulart, who also scored the only goal for the 2013 champion last week in a 1-0 win over FC Seoul, put the Chinese side ahead a minute later.
The Wanderers paid for their lapse in concentration as the Brazilian tapped in after being set up by Gao Lin. The duo combined again to put Guangzhou, coached by Italy’s World Cup winning captain Fabio Cannavaro, up 3-1 in the 64th.
“He had a very good performance today scoring three goals,” Cannavaro said of Goulart. “But it’s only his second champions league match so he will continue to improve.”
Guangzhou lost goalkeeper Zeng Cheng with a suspected broken cheekbone after a head clash with a teammate and the long delay due to the incident led to 17 minutes of extra time.
Substitute Romeo Castelen pulled a goal back for the Wanderers in the 5th minute of stoppage time to boost hopes of a last-ditch equalizer but Guangzhou held on for its second straight win and climbed up to the top of its group.
At the Saitama Stadium, Brandon Borrello scored in the 2nd minute of the match against 10-man Urawa Red Diamonds to hand Australian champion Brisbane Roar a 1-0 win, its first in the Asian Champions League.
Yosuke Kashiwagi lost possession on the edge of the area and Thomas Broich fed Borrello, who beat Urawa goalkeeper Shusaku Nishikawa with an angled drive.
Center back Daisuke Nasu was given his marching orders after he brought down striker Andrija Kaluderovic in the 51st and the Australian side held on for three points after its opening loss at home last week to Beijing Guo’an in Group G.
At Beijing Workers’ Stadium, Dejan Damjanovic scored midway through the second half as Guo’an stayed undefeated with a 1-0 win over South Korean side Suwon Bluewings.
A single goal from Kim Jin-kyu in the 66th also separated FC Seoul against Japan’s Kashima Antlers as the Korean side got its first win of the campaign after a defeat at Guangzhou.
In Tashkent, Uzbekistan club Lokomotiv claimed its first point in the tournament after a 1-1 draw with Iranian champion Foolad Khouzestan.
Oleg Zoteev scored in the 7th for tournament debutante Lokomotiv but Mehrdad Jamaati equalized for the visitors 12 minutes before halftime.
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