Wei Zhen

Central Defender - Shanghai Port
6 Jul 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Wei Zhen

44 Edition

The Shanghai Port Post

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

15 unbeaten for Shanghai Port

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 15 matches without defeat is a foundation Shanghai Port did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Words exchanged at Shanghai Port

Óscar Melendo 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.

Player ratings

Gabrielzinho was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

A row about effort at Shanghai Port

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tyias Browning was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Another one collected away from home

3 on the bounce on the road for Shanghai Port. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Match

Shanghai Port see off Shenzhen Peng City

Three points for Shanghai Port, 1‑0 the final word against Shenzhen Peng City in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Liu Zhurun

Marked 8.22 — 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.

The dugout

The form table has caught Tyias Browning

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

The dugout

Wei Zhuoyi: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

In brief

Back issues
43 Edition

The Shanghai Port Post

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Still nobody has beaten Shanghai Port

The unbeaten run reaches 14. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Match

Nobody wins at Shanghai Port

15 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Market

Wang Shenchao hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Shanghai Port can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Gabrielzinho

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A falling-out at Shanghai Port

Gabrielzinho and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

500 appearances for Wu Lei

500 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

Squad

Tyias Browning 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.

Looking ahead

Shanghai Port and Shenzhen Peng City meet at the summit

The fixture the rest of the division is looking forward to more than either of the sides in it. Both know a win changes the season and a defeat does not end it, which is what makes it hard to play.

Match

Shanghai Port refuse to lose to Qingdao Hainiu

A point taken on 95 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

In brief

  • Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Leonardo
  • Player ratings Wei Zhen's mistake decides it
  • The dugout Gabrielzinho gets picked when it counts
7 Edition

The Shanghai Port Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Óscar Melendo

74 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Shanghai Port lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Both of them Leonardo's — 8.95

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.95, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

8 unbeaten for Shanghai Port

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Shanghai Port did not have in the autumn.

Market

Feng Jin has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Shanghai Port they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Words at Shanghai Port training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tyias Browning is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

Wei Zhen shuts the door

Defensive actions: 21, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Match

Leonardo sends Shanghai Port past Qingdao Hainiu

It finished 2‑0, and it was Leonardo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Shanghai Port.

Player ratings

Wu Lei was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

A satisfied Wei Zhuoyi

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Wei Zhuoyi could afford to be generous.

In brief