The Nigerians were on parade
from start to finish as Jaime
Pacheco’s men were unable to
break down the resolute hosts
without their guile
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.
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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