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Champions in final
Afzal H Khan
Defending champions Liaoning Football Club of China marched into the final of the 10th Aslan Club Cup football championship for the Coca Cola Cup when they trounced North Korean champions April 25 by three goals to nil tn the first semifinal held yesterday at the Dhaka Stadium.
The winners led 1-0 at the breather.
Liaoning will face the winners of today's second semifinal. between Iranian champions Esteghlal Club and Pelita Jaya of Indonesia, in Monday's final.
Today's match, between the Group B champions Esteghlal and Group A runners-up Pelita Jaya, kicks off at 5:00 pm.
The Koreans will play in the third-place decider against the losers of today's match on Monday
Although the Chinese were worthy winners on the day their image took a beating when two of their star players were given the marching orders, within seconds of each other, by Nepali referee Shyam Shreshtha only a minute from time for two totally unnecessary. senseless fouls on the Korean players. The referee didn't hesitate a moment to brandish the dreaded red card first at Li Zheng and then Tang Yaodong. punishing both for two cynical attacks on the Korean forwards.
Thankfully, however, the targets of both the attempted fouls escaped serious injury.
But for this bizarre dying-minute drama, it wasn't a very exciting game to watch for the three thousand-odd crowd braving the hot late afternoon iub The empty stands indicated that local Interest In the meet had waned with the fall ure of Dhaka Mohammedans to make the semifinals. Also, the Cce of daily tickets, at Taks each, must have been a discouraging factor in these times of hard economic realities.
For once the pitch wasn't the quagmire it has been since the start of the tourney a week ago. The fierce sun of the past couple of days had baked the playing area hard, almost crisp, with all the makings for a fast, free-flowing feast of football.
The Chinese, who had looked suspect on the slushy ground in their opening robin league game against Oman's Al-Nasr. appeared a more confident lot yesterday, dictating the pice with their shortpassing game. The Koreans took more time settling down. Their best efforts came soon after the first Chinese goal and lasted until halfway into the second session, but the second and third Chinese goals took the fight out of them and In the end they were a beaten lot.
Liaoning should have taken the lead in the very second minute of play but both Ma Lin and Tang Yaodong failed to apply the finishing touch after Huang Chong's cross from the right had slipped out of the Korean goalie Kim Chung's grasp.
The Koreans got a good op-Sirtunity in the fifth minute [lowing a corner kick from the right but their forwards tailed from a melee.
Huang Chong, who had an excellent match yesterday and was by far the pick of the Chinese players, gave Liaoning the lead with a fierce long-range drive In the 21st minute (1-0).
In the 32nd minute it was sheer bad luck for the Koreans when right-winger Kong Mun-Choi's shot hit the Chinese woodwork.
Once again Liaoning drew the first blood in the second session. Three minutes after the restart. Ma Un headed Just over the Korean bar from a freekick taken by Sun Wei.
The Koreans should have got their equaliser in the 50th minute but a Chinese defender quickly retrieved the situation with a last ditch clearance after substitute LI Chang Gyu's shot had rebounded from goalie Fu Yu Bin’s chest. U scored the only hattrick of the meet tn April 25 s 4-3 win over Bangkok Bank Tuesday.
However, the Chinese almost managed to gift away a goal tn the 52nd minute when defender LI Zheng's attempted backpass to goalie Fu hit the bottom of their own sidepost and went out for a corner. The pressure mounted by the Koreans seeking the equaliser appeared to till upon Ihe Chinese.
April 25 custodian Kim Chung made a brilliant goalltne save from Ma Lin's header In the 54th minute.
No sooner had the applause for the Korean goalie's feat died, his Chinese counterpart Fu received a yellow card warning for time wasting.
The Chinese doubled the margin 1n the 75th minute. Sun We1 converted a penalty after Li Ryo ng Choi had handled the ball deep inside the Korean box while attempting to clear the danger posed by Chinese forward Xu Hui after Huang Chong had done well to beat the off-side trap running down the right and send a beautiful cross to Xu (2-0).
Sun Wei. who scored Liaoning's match-winner against Pelita Jaya in their robin league tie, took his meet goal tally to three by netting the third goal for his side in the 85th minute. Tang Yaodong sent a long through to Huang Chong on the right and the latter laid on yet another sweet centre for Sun Wei to tap home (3-0).
The Chinese had the match all sewn up. But Just when the day's entertainment was about to end two of their players — U Zheng and Tang Yaodong — made themselves ineligible for Monday's final by inviting the red card from the referee for two needless fouls, within seconds of each other, tn the injury time play. This may prove costly 'for the champions in their bid to renew their lease on the trophy come Monday.