CHENGDU. Chengdu Rongcheng was able to reverse the score against Wuhan Yangtze. It was Wuhan Yangtze to score first with a goal from Felicio Brown Forbes. Nonetheless, later Chengdu Rongcheng found the way to reverse the score scoring 3 consecutive goals with Rômulo (57′), Felipe Silva (80′) and Felipe Silva (82′). Chengdu Rongcheng was truly superior in terms of ball possession (68%) and that was among the factors of its victory.​

The match was played at the Chengdu Sports Center stadium in Chengdu on Tuesday and it started at 3:00 pm local time. The referee was Yinhao Shen with the assistance of Bo Deng and Zhe Zhang. The 4th official was Zhiliang Jia. The weather was cloudy. The temperature was cold at 8.9 degrees Celsius or 48.09 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 49%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

Chengdu Rongcheng was in firm control of the ball 68% while Wuhan Yangtze was struggling with a 32% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

Chengdu Rongcheng was more pushing with 49 dangerous attacks and 19 shots of which 11 were on target. This is one of the reasons why Chengdu Rongcheng won the match​.

Chengdu Rongcheng shot 19 times, 11 on target, 8 off target. On the other side, Wuhan Yangtze shot 12 times, 4 on target, 8 off target.

Cards

Chengdu Rongcheng received 1 yellow card (Rui Gan). Talking about the opposition, Wuhan Yangtze received 2 yellow cards (Yuhao Chen  and Xuan Han).

Standings

After this match, Chengdu Rongcheng will have 62 points to sit in the 3rd place. On the opposite side, Wuhan Yangtze will stay with 19 points to sit in the 16th place.

Next matches

In the next match in the Super League, Chengdu Rongcheng will host Dalian Professional on the 31st of December with a 1-0 head to head in favor of Dalian Professional (0 draws).

Wuhan Yangtze will play away agasint Hangzhou on the 31st of December with a 1-1 head to head.

Chengdu Rongcheng – Formation

Chengdu Rongcheng started with an extremely aggressive line-up (3-4-3).

The manager Jung-Won Seo decided to play with the following team: Yan Zhang (6.4), Jianbin Li (6.5), Gou Junchen (6.2), Ruibao Hu (6.4), Gan Rui (6.5), Tim Chow (7.1), Chao Gan (7.3), Hu Hetao (7.0), Rômulo (8.1), Matheus Saldanha (6.7) and Min-woo Kim (7.3).

The home team had on the bench: Xiang Baixu, Felipe Silva (8.1), Wang Hanlin, Jing Hu, Meng Junjie, Xin Tang, Hu Xingyu, Mutellip Iminqari (6.4), Bin Liu and Xing Yu.

Substitutions

Chengdu Rongcheng made 5 changes: Jianbin Li for Mutellip Iminqari (32′), Chao Gan for Felipe Silva (46′), Saldanha for Bin Liu (86′), Ruibao Hu for Jing Hu (90′) and Hetao Hu for Xin Tang (90′).

Best player: Rômulo​

The player that probably impressed the most for Chengdu Rongcheng was Rômulo.

His rating is (8.1) with 1 goal, 51 passes (74% accurate) and 4 key passes. He was won 2 duels out of 5. He performed 10 crosses.

Wuhan Yangtze – Formation

Wuhan Yangtze started with a 5-4-1 line-up (5-4-1).

Jinyu Li played with: Zhang Zhenqiang (7.2), Chen Yuhao (6.1), Xuan Han (5.5), Peng Li (7.4), Dong Xu (6.8), Liu Shangkun (6.2), Rentian Hu (6.3), Aoshuang Nie (7.1), ZhongQiu Ye (6.8), Hu Jinghang (6.6) and Felicio Brown Forbes (7.3).

They had on the bench: Zhang Huajun (6.4), Jingbin Wang, Junxian Liu, Li Da, Chao Li, Gao Xiang, Nihmat Nihat and Ziyang Pi.

Substitutions

Wuhan Yangtze made 3 changes: Shangkun Liu for Chao Li (84′), Xuan Han for Jingbin Wang (84′) and Rentian Hu for Huajun Zhang (85′).

Best player: Peng Li​

The player that probably impressed the most for Wuhan Yangtze was Peng Li.

His rating is (7.4) with 17 passes (76% accurate) and 2 key passes. He was won 5 duels out of 5. He hit the woodwork once times.

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the Super League.​

• Guangzhou Evergrande – Changchun Yatai – 1-4
• Chengdu Rongcheng – Wuhan Yangtze – 3-1
• Beijing Guoan – Shanghai SIPG – 0-3
• Wuhan Three Towns – Hangzhou – 2-0
• Henan Jianye – Shanghai Shenhua – 1-1
• Shenzhen – Guangzhou R&F – 0-3