Shandong Luneng beat league rival Shanghai Shenhua 2-1 in the A3
Champions Cup in Jinan on Sunday.
Jiang Kun of Shanghai Shenhua fouled to give Luneng a penalty
kick soon after the game kicked off. Aleksandar Zivkovic scored
breezily to put the hosts ahead.
Zheng Zhi doubled Luneng's lead 22 minutes later with a clear
shot to the left of the goal.
"It's an important game," said Luneng head coach Ljubisa
Tumbakovic. "We performed well in the first half, but after we took
the lead, we performed less aggressively."
Gimenez Toledo Wison Osvaldo, coach of Shanghai Shenhua, said,
"Although we lost, we performed well in the second half."
(Xinhua News Agency June 11, 2007)