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Tianjin grab first point in Chinese Super League
Super Eagles
stars John Obi Mikel and Brown Ideye
were on parade as Tianjin Teda and Jiangsu Suning played out a goalless draw at
Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre on Friday to scoop their first point of the
season.
The Chinese
Super League encounter was Ideye’s debut for the Tigers since his move from
Olympiacos, but he was uninspiring as he fluffed several scoring chances.
After their
opening day defeat to Shandong Luneng, Tianjin Teda came with the ambition of
picking their first win of the season, but their dream got shattered no thanks
to harvest of misses plus fine goalkeeping from Sipeng Zhang.
Captain
Mikel had a good outing though joined Ximing Pan, Dong Wang and Jiakang Hui in
the defence to curtail Boyu Yang and Xiaotian Yang’s attacking forays.
In the
second half, Jiangsu controlled proceedings, but looked short of inspiration in
the final third after injured Song Wang was substituted after 46 minutes.
The result
means Teda boast of one point from two games to place 11th on the log. They
host Chongqing Lifan in their next outing on April 2.
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