Muangthong United secured a valuable 1-0 victory over Ulsan Hyundai at SCG Stadium.<\/p>\n
The win means the Thai club moved to the top of Group E with eight points after two wins from four games.<\/p>\n
Teerasil Dangda was the hero of the night for the hosts, scoring eight minutes before half-time to bring home the victory.<\/p>\n
Ulsan had most of the possession but failed to turn any of it into clear-cut chances, with the only two shots on target being easily dealt with by Muangthong stopper Kawin Thamsatchanan.<\/p>\n
The other Group E clash saw Brisbane Roar gain their first three points in their 2017 AFC Champions League campaign after edging Kashima Antlers 2-1.<\/p>\n
Forward Jamie McLaren would score the first goal in the 18th minute before\u00a0Brett Holman doubled the hosts’ lead in the 49th minute.<\/p>\n
Substitute Ryota Nagaki gave Kashima some hope when he scored from close range\u00a011 minutes before time, but it was too little too late.<\/p>\n
Kashima Antlers remain in second with 6 points, two points behind leader Muangthong. Brisbane are still bottom but now have 4 points, same as third place Ulsan Hyundai.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Suwon Bluewings consolidated their top spot in Group G with a thumping 5-0 victory against Hong Kong’s Eastern.<\/p>\n
Yeom Ki-hun headed home the opener in the 37th minute, befoe Ko Seung-Beom added the second 15 minutes into the second-half.<\/p>\n
Johnathan bagged a quick-fire brace and Seung-Beom sealed the victory for the host with his second of the night just several minutes later.<\/p>\n
Suwon are still undefeated after 4 matches and held on to their top spot, while Eastern’s campaign seems all but over with just a single point and a goal difference of -13.<\/p>\n
Second-place Guangzhou Evergrande\u00a0and third-place Kawasaki Frontale held each other to a draw last night at Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium.<\/p>\n
Both sides had their chances but couldn’t turn them into anything substantial and\u00a0a draw was probably a fair result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Muangthong United secured a valuable 1-0 victory over Ulsan Hyundai at SCG Stadium. The win means the Thai club moved to the top of Group E with eight points after two wins from four games. Teerasil Dangda was the hero of the night for the hosts, scoring eight minutes before half-time to bring home the victory. Ulsan had most of the possession but failed to turn any of it into clear-cut chances, with the only two shots on target being easily dealt with by Muangthong stopper Kawin Thamsatchanan. The other Group E clash saw Brisbane Roar gain their first three points in their 2017 AFC Champions League campaign after edging … Continue reading “AFC Champions League: Muangthong beat Ulsan to go top of Group E”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":2836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[160,104,95,317,478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}