Reds put Beijing march on hold, Luneng draws
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URAWA Red Diamonds denied Beijing Guo’an a place in the AFC Champions League last 16 yesterday as Shandong Luneng and Kashiwa Reysol played out an eight-goal thriller.
Urawa was hosting Chinese league leader Beijing on the back of three straight defeats, and was flirting with elimination after Yu Dabao’s tap-in on 33 minutes. But the Japanese side grabbed a lifeline in Saitama when Tomoaki Makino headed it level in the 74th minute for a 1-1 draw.
Beijing’s Lang Zheng was sent off in the dying minutes after an altercation with Tadanari Lee, but Lee then missed a gilt-edged opportunity to win it in stoppage time.
The draw kept Urawa last in Group G with its first point, while Beijing stayed top with 10 points, three ahead of Suwon Samsung, which beat Australia’s Brisbane Roar 3-1.
After a scoreless first half, South Korea’s Suwon raced away with goals by Kwon Chang-hoon, Seo Jung-Jin and captain Yeom Ki-hun in a devastating 15-minute spell.
Luke DeVere pulled a goal back for the visitors with 10 minutes remaining but they dropped to third place, six points behind Beijing.
Beijing now needs only a draw when it hosts Brisbane on April 21 to seal its passage into the knockout rounds.
In Group E, South Korean champions Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors and Japan’s Kashiwa Reysol were also prevented from reaching the eliminators as they were held to draws.
Kashiwa’s game was a belter as Shandong staved off possible elimination by coming from 1-3 down to lead 4-3 when Yang Xu converted a penalty early in the second half.
But Shandong had to settle for a 4-4 draw when goalkeeper Wang Dalei comically mishandled a 76th-minute free-kick by Brazilian forward Cristiano into his own net.
In Thu Dau Mot, Jeonbuk’s Eninho scored in the 31st but Abbas Dieng kept Vietnam’s Binh Duong in the competition with an injury-time goal.
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