The Yunnan Yukun Courier
Player ratings29 May 2028
A brace, and Abdul Aziz Yakubu takes the afternoon — 8.64
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Abdul Aziz Yakubu provided it, and the 8.64 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad29 May 2028
Defences have started doubling up on Abdul Aziz Yakubu
17 goals and a season average of 7.25 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad29 May 2028
Tempers go at Yunnan Yukun
Abdul Aziz Yakubu was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad29 May 2028
Yang Haoyu signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yang Haoyu commits to Yunnan Yukun for another 4 years.
Player ratings29 May 2028
A masterclass from Oscar Maritu
Marked 8.04 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad29 May 2028
Yunnan Yukun count the cost of losing Jin Junwei
50 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout29 May 2028
Yi Teng faces a manager he fell out with
They have worked together before and it did not end well. Nobody at Yunnan Yukun expects the new manager to have forgotten, least of all Yi Teng.
Match27 May 2028
Honours even between Yunnan Yukun and Chengdu Rongcheng
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout29 May 2028
Alexandru Ioniţă has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Yunnan Yukun 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.
In brief
- The dugout Half-satisfied: He Haoyu on the draw
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Fang Hao
- Looking ahead A reunion for Tsui Wang Kit