Jiangsu goes top, Guangzhou held
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ALEX Teixeira’s double strike put China’s deep-pocketed Jiangsu Suning on top of its AFC Champions League group with a 2-1 win over Adelaide United last night.
As Chinese rival Guangzhou Evergrande scrambled a 2-2 draw at Suwon Samsung Bluewings, Teixeira scored an early tap-in and a brilliant solo effort late on in Nanjing.
The match-winning performance by the former Liverpool target, a 50-million euro (US$52.68 million) signing from Shakhtar Donetsk last year, put Jiangsu top of Group H with a maximum six points.
Jiangsu, bankrolled by the Suning group which also controls Inter Milan, was runner-up to Evergrande in last year’s Chinese Super League but the Asian title looms as a much bigger prize.
It was quickly on top against Adelaide when Teixeira snapped up a rebound from ex-Chelsea man Ramires on 14 minutes.
Adelaide was threatening to equalize but on 72 minutes, Teixeira set off on a run from the left, drifting past a defender before nutmegging goalkeeper Daniel Margush.
Substitute forward Eli Babalj grabbed a goal for Adelaide in injury time but there was to be no miracle comeback for the 2008 Asian finalist and reigning Australian champion.
Earlier, Brazil forward Alan struck late to spare Evergrande’s blushes 2-2 against Suwon, just a week after the CSL giant hammered Hong Kong’s Eastern 7-1.
Luiz Felipe Scolari’s team was headed for a shock defeat in South Korea before Alan slammed home a loose ball in the 81st to keep the two-time Asian champion top of Group G.
In pouring rain at Suwon World Cup Stadium, Evergrande’s Ricardo Goulart had cancelled out Santos’s early opener with a superb half-volley on 25 minutes.
Suwon’s Johnathan made it 2-1 shortly afterwards before Alan, the game’s fourth Brazilian scorer, secured an important away point for Evergrande with his late equalizer.
In Group H, Yasuhito Endo’s own goal triggered a collapse by Gamba Osaka as the first-week table-topper slumped to a 1-4 home defeat to Jeju United.
Japan international Endo nodded the ball into his own net in the 44th before Lee Chang-min doubled the Koreans’ advantage in first-half injury time.
After the break, Marcelo Toscano’s strike and a long-range rocket from Lee made it 4-0, before Ademilson grabbed a consolation with a minute left.
In China’s Hong Kong, debutante Eastern flirted with its first ACL win before drawing 1-1 with 10-man Kawasaki Frontale of Japan.
Manuel Bleda’s 14th-minute penalty — after Tatsuki Nara’s red card — gave Eastern hope of a morale-boosting win after last week’s Evergrande hiding.
But Eastern, led by its trailblazing female coach Chan Yuen-ting, had to settle for its first point in the competition after Ko Itakura’s second-half equalizer.
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