At 20 o'clock on October 22, Beijing time, a key battle in the third round of the AFC Champions League elite league stage started. Shandong Taishan sits at the home stadium of Jinan Olympic Sports Center to face the J-League powerhouse Yokohama Mariners. And in this game, the starting lineups of both sides have also been released. Due to the previous red stain in the AFC Champions League elite league against Kobe, Taishan coach Choi Kang-hee was banned for 6 games, and Taishan assistant coach Kim Hyun-min was banned for 10 games, and the two could not command on the spot in this game.
【Starters of both sides】
Shandong Taishan starters (4-4-2)
Goalkeeper: 14-Wang Dalei
Defenders: 33-Gao Zhunyi, 3-Marcel (F), 5-Zheng Zheng, 11-Liu Yang
Midfielders: 17-Wu Xinghan, 20-Liao Lisheng, 22-Li Yuanyi, 10-Kazaishvili (F)
Forwards: 19-Zeka (F), 9-Cressan (F)
Subs: 26-Liu Shibo, 2-Tong Lei, 6-Wang Tong, 24-Bi Jinhao, 27-Shi Ke, 35-Huang Zhengyu, 13-Zhang Chi, 21-Liu Binbin, 23-Xie Wenneng, 25-Peng Xinli, 29-Chen Pu, 8-Delgado
Yokohama Mariners start (4-4-2)
Goalkeeper: 21 - Taiki Iikura
Defenders: 15-Takumi Uejima, 5-Eduardo (F), 13-Ryuta Koike, 16-Ren Kato
Midfielders: 24-Sei Kato, 17-Kenta Inoue, 28-Riku Yamane, 14-Asahi Uenaka
Forwards: 10-Anderson López (F), 11-Jan Mateus (F)
Subs: 31-Kaede Shirasaka, 2-Katsuya Nagado, 6-Hirota Watanabe, 18-Kota Mizunuma, 20-Jun Amano, 23-Ryo Miyyichi, 27-Ken Matsubara, 35-Sakakihara Coiso, 41-Ryoku Teramon, 42-Kohei Mochizuki, 49-Honma Justin
Referee: Omar· Mohammed· Ali (U.A.E.) VAR: Mohammed · El Obeid · Khadim (U.A.E.)
In the first 2 rounds of the AFC Champions League Elite League, Taishan won 1 win and 1 loss (3-1 Central Coast Mariners, 1-2 Kobe Victory Ship) and accumulated 3 points and temporarily ranked 5th among the 12 teams in East Asia. Yokohama Mariners also have 1 win and 1 loss (3-7 Gwangju, 4-0 Ulsan) with 3 points and are in 6th place.
The two teams have played each other 6 times in their history, and Taishan is at a disadvantage with 2 wins and 4 losses. In the AFC Champions League last season, Taishan was eliminated by Yokohama and missed the semi-finals of the East Asian region. The two teams fought fiercely in the group stage and the 1/4 finals for 4 games, Taishan lost all 4 games, only scored 1 goal and conceded 7 goals, and it was the international Chen Pu who broke the Yokohama goal for Taishan.