The Shenzhen Peng City Chronicle
Market28 Sep 2026
Wesley Moraes wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Wesley Moraes wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Shenzhen Peng City know it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Eden Kartsev in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Shenzhen Peng City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Wesley Moraes falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Time is catching up with Leleco
Everybody at Shenzhen Peng City saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 37 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Match26 Sep 2026
Shenzhen Peng City and Zhejiang FC take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Jordi Mboula has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Shenzhen Peng City will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Half-satisfied: Peng Junjie on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Duan-Liu Yu could have had three
10 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
In brief
- Looking ahead Yu Rui goes back to face Changchun Yatai
- Market The Jordi Mboula story refuses to die
- The dugout No place in the plan for Sassá