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Guo鈥檃n halts Shenhua鈥檚 streak

BEIJING Guo’an went top of the Chinese Super League after two late goals ended Shanghai Shenhua’s 100 percent start to the season, while defending champion Guangzhou Evergrande slumped to a first defeat in a bad-tempered clash with Henan Jianye.

Brazilian Elkeson had a chance to snatch a 2-2 draw for Evergrande in the final moments but he blasted his penalty high over the bar to hand new Italian coach Fabio Cannavaro his first defeat of the season.

The referee showed eight yellow cards and it could have been more after some heavy challenges before Bi Jinghao’s winner in the 72nd minute. Zhang Linpeng had levelled for the visitors in the 64th minute effort after Zhi Xiao’s eighth-minute opener for Henan.

In Beijing, Darko Matic and Erton Fejzullahu scored the goals for last year’s runner-up in its 2-0 home victory over Shenhua, which had impressed with three opening wins. The victory took the capital club top of the table on 10 points from four games, one ahead of Shenhua, Shanghai SIPG and Shandong Luneng, which beat Shanghai Shenxin 2-1 away.

Henan moved up to fifth on seven points after its surprise win, while Evergrande is seventh, also three points adrift of Beijing.

Evergrande’s city rival Guangzhou R&F thrashed Guizhou Renhe 4-0 to move up to eighth place after Jin Yangyang struck twice in an easy win for Guangzhou.


 

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