The Dalian Yingbo Gazette
Squad21 Sep 2026
Dalian Yingbo count the cost of losing Mamadou Traoré
39 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Dalian Yingbo
Song Yue and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match19 Sep 2026
Dalian Yingbo get the job done against Meizhou Hakka
A 1‑0 win over Meizhou Hakka, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Huang Zihao
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Li Ang 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Cephas Malele
A mark of 7.82, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Liu Shuai runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Bao Yiming kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Isnik Alimi gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Isnik Alimi is on it.
In brief
- The dugout Sun Bo dropped after a run of poor form
- Player ratings A defender's afternoon for Lyu Zhuoyi
- The terraces The Isnik Alimi rumours reach the terraces