SHANGHAI: Fabio Capello’s Jiangsu Suning slumped to the bottom of the Chinese Super League at the weekend after a defeat to a Shanghai SIPG side missing their banned star players and manager Andre Villas-Boas. The Italian coach was left still searching for his first league victory since being appointed last month at Jiangsu, who have spent heavily on midfielder Ramires from Chelsea and attacking midfielder Alex Teixeira. Their victory, thanks to the only goal of the game by striker Elkeson, made it no wins from three games for former Real Madrid boss Capello in the league. Tianjin Quanjian blew the title race wide open at the halfway stage of the season on Sunday with Brazilian Alexandre Pato scoring for Fabio Cannavaro’s side. Another Brazilian, the midfielder Paulinho who has been linked with a move to Barcelona, scored twice for the beaten league leaders.

Source: Manila Times July 03, 2017 04:30 UTC