Beijing goes top of group after edging Mariners
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BEIJING Guo’an moved into first place in Group F of the AFC Champions League with a 2-1 home win over Australia’s Central Coast Mariners yesterday.
Veteran striker Shao Jiayi put the Chinese club ahead just seconds before half-time with an unstoppable low drive, and Nigerian striker Peter Utaka rounded goalkeeper Liam Reddy to make it 2-0 in the 63rd minute.
Eddy Bosnar and Glen Tifiro had both hit the woodwork for Central Coast before Utaka’s goal but the Australian club did pull one back through a Nick Fitzgerald penalty with five minutes left.
However, Beijing hung on for its first win in the competition this season, which puts it top on five points, one ahead of Japan’s Sanfrecce Hiroshima and FC Seoul.
Sanfrecce put itself level on points with the South Korean side, last year’s runner-up, with a similar 2-1 home win.
In Ulsan, Guizhou Renhe conjured a late equalizer to hold Ulsan Hyundai 1-1 and finally end the South Korean club’s record 11-game winning streak in the AFC Champions League.
Yang Hao nodded the Chinese visitors’ leveller four minutes from time to halt Ulsan’s extraordinary sequence of victories which stretches back to its 2012 Asian title run.
Brazilian forward Rafinha converted a 57th-minute penalty after he was fouled by Guizhou skipper Sun Jihai to give Ulsan the lead.
Guizhou is bottom of Group H after losing its first two matches, but it claimed its first point when Yang glanced home Sun’s cross late in the game.
Ulsan stayed top with seven points but Western Sydney Wanderers moved to within a point after a 1-0 upset win over Japan’s Kawasaki Frontale.
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