Match Report
14 points and 4 places separated them: Meizhou Hakka 1st with 22, Jiangxi Liansheng 5th with 8. On recent form Jiangxi Lushan sat only 25th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 5th overall. Per game in the league, Meizhou Hakka were scoring 1.8 and conceding 0.9, Jiangxi Liansheng 1 and 2, against a competition average of 1.36 goals per team per game.
Meizhou Hakka arrived on a run of three straight wins. A win had eluded Jiangxi Liansheng for 10 matches. The five-game form split read 9/15 points for Meizhou Hakka against 1/15 for Jiangxi Liansheng.
The venue was Hengli Soccer Town #9 Soccerpitch in Dongguan, with room for 12,000 spectators. Half-time and full-time told different stories: Meizhou Hakka led 4-0 at the break, before 1 more goal closed it at 4-1.