Shanghai SIPG boss Andre Villas-Boas has expressed his disappointment after his side only managed a 1-1 home draw in the first leg of the AFC Champions League semi-final against Urawa Red Diamonds.<\/p>\n
Although Hulk scored a spectacular long-range strike in the 15th<\/sup> minute, Shanghai SIPG failed to secure\u00a0a victory after Yosuke Kashiwagi leveled the scores for the Japanese side 12 minutes later.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m so sorry to disappoint you,\u201d an irritated Villas-Boas said in the post-match press conference, as quoted by AFP<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had 21 shots and the game could have been completely different.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are a little bit disappointed, of course, but the second leg is completely open and we will have everyone back for selection for the second leg, which is very good.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shanghai SIPG boss Andre Villas-Boas has expressed his disappointment after his side only managed a 1-1 home draw in the first leg of the AFC Champions League semi-final against Urawa Red Diamonds. Although Hulk scored a spectacular long-range strike in the 15th minute, Shanghai SIPG failed to secure\u00a0a victory after Yosuke Kashiwagi leveled the scores for the Japanese side 12 minutes later. \u201cI\u2019m so sorry to disappoint you,\u201d an irritated Villas-Boas said in the post-match press conference, as quoted by AFP. \u201cWe had 21 shots and the game could have been completely different. \u201cWe are a little bit disappointed, of course, but the second leg is completely open and we … Continue reading “Andre Villas-Boas disappointed as Shanghai SIPG being held by Urawa”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":7439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[130,995,237],"class_list":["post-7437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-afc-champions-league","tag-andre-villas-boas","tag-shanghai-sipg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=7437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}