The Shanghai Port Post
Match29 May 2027
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.
Squad31 May 2027
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 ratings31 May 2027
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.
Squad31 May 2027
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.
Match29 May 2027
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.
Match29 May 2027
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 ratings31 May 2027
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 dugout31 May 2027
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 dugout31 May 2027
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
- The dugout Wei Zhen is still paying for one afternoon at Shanghai Port
- The dugout Tyias Browning knocks on the manager’s door
- Market The Óscar Melendo question follows Shanghai Port around