joel griffiths brilliant as beijing guoan sink melbourne victory

... former a-league star joel griffiths has again sunk old enemies melbourne victory, scoring the winner for his chinese club beijing guoan in a 1-0 asian champions league triumph ... griffiths netted a superb 50th minute winner at the beijing workers stadium to get the victory's acl campaign off to a rocky start ... griffiths, who boasted a goal every two games record against melbourne while playing for the jets, was outstanding for the home side as beijing guoan dominated for long periods ... the victory started promisingly and could have had an early lead with the busy tom pondeljak's long-range shot well stopped by beijing goalkeeper yang zhi on 27 minutes ... beijing striker zhu yifan shot wide when he should have done better in the 38th minute, while victory goalkeeper mitch langerak made an important save just prior to the break to deny otto

bright start for bunyodkor

... chinese champions beijing guoan edged pastâ australian champions melbourne victory 1-0 at home with the goal scored by soccerooâ striker joel griffiths

newcastle ask joel griffiths to 'please explain' after failing to show for training

... newcastle jets have issued a please explain letter to absent star joel griffiths and ruled out a deal with chinese club beijing guoan for the wantaway striker ... "griffiths has been keen to extend his deal with beijing after a successful time in china, but tsatsimas says that is off the table ... but tsatsimas said even if beijing met that price, there would be no deal

melbourne victory hope to play a-league finals while tackling acl

... the victory have been drawn in one of the tougher pool groups in next year's competition, comprising chinese champions beijing guoan, korean runners-up seongnam ilhwa and japanese powerhouse kawasaki frontale

melbourne victory and adelaide united get dealt tricky acl groups to start

... melbourne, in their second foray into asia, have been pitted against seongnam ilhwa chunma from korea republic, chinese outfit beijing guoan and japanese power kawasaki frontale ... beijing recently claimed their first chinese super league crown ... "having competed in the acl once, we are all eagerly anticipating another opportunity and seongnam, beijing and kawasaki will provide a great challenge come february next year," cole said

steelers handed tough draw

... reigning a-league champions melbourne victory have been drawn in group e - possibly the toughest in the east asian part of the draw - where they will face seongnam ilhwa chunma (korea republic), beijing guoan (china) and kawasaki frontale (japan) ... victory football operations manager gary cole said: "having competed in the acl once, we are all eagerly anticipating another opportunity and seongnam, beijing and kawasaki will provide a great challenge come february next year

shandong miss chance to go top

... shandong slipped fifth after the weekend's action, two points adrift of leaders beijing guoan and henan jianye at the top of a congested table, while qingdao moved up to tenth after extending their unbeaten run to six games

henan held as beijing stay top

... however, zhao peng's header with two minutes remaining earned the home side a point which left them level with beijing guoan, who moved top with a 1-0 win over shaanxi baorong yesterday and lead the table on goal difference

round 3: points to prove

... chinese dreams: beijing guoan-shandong luneng (china pr) it's second against first in the chinese top flight, and what a game this could be ... beijing have been in tremendous form at home recently, yet shandong have picked up more points on the road than at home in recent weeks ... beijing are only averaging 1

roadkill's revenge in round 2

... round 3 fixtures (29 and 30 august) universidad de chile-audax italiano manchester united-arsenal bayern munich-wolfsburg ac milan-inter milan beijing guoan-shandong luneng real zaragoza-cd tenerife la galaxy-chivas usa cercle brugge-club brugge sao paulo- palmeiras marseille-bordeaux the deadline for round 3 is 29 august 2009, 00:00 (gmt)