Smashing Suzhou

Beautiful city, awful team

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Smashing Suzhou

I really love the city of Suzhou. It’s absolutely beautiful, with the great waterways and parks. I really recommend visiting.

I particularly recommend visiting with a good football club. We had a great time smashing them.

Cheng Binbin is back from injury. He scored a strong hat trick in less than an hour, showing us the form that convinced me to buy him in the first place. This has been his first really good performance for Yanbian, and makes me wonder if he isn’t actually in the same class as Mueanta, Rovaglia, and Delfi.

Jacob Dicko Eng provided one of his rare goals, and our 17-year-old striker Li Qiang scored again in only his second first team match.

We won, 5-0, allowing only 2 shots in the process. We dominated possession, holding the ball 60% of the time. It wasn’t close at all. Suzhou would try to lob the ball over the heads of our defenders, but had no success doing so. We simply held onto the ball and attacked time and time again.

And this was our B team!

Another Big One

Not much time for chit-chat here. We’ve got to get ready for our next really big match.

We’re off to Tianjin, where we face another Chinese Super League side in the Chinese FA Cup.

Tianjin is a lot grittier and darker than Suzhou. The football is better, though, and that’s my biggest concern.

Hopefully we’ll survive to see another day.

Please note that you can find the latest standings and selected statistics on this splash page.