Nigerian striker Obafemi Martins scored the winning goal that ensured as Shanghai Shenhua defeat Shanghai SIPG to win the Chinese FA Cup final on away goals 3-3 on aggregate on Sunday.
They did it in thrilling fashion and without Argentine forward Carlos Tevez, whose disastrous 11-month spell in China looks to be over after he failed to appear in either leg of the final.
Shenhua went into the two-legged tie as underdogs against an expensively assembled SIPG side featuring the Brazilians Hulk and Oscar, Asia’s most expensive player at 60 million euros.
But Portuguese coach Andre Villas-Boas, whose future in China is also unclear having failed to lead SIPG to silverware this season, paid the price for a lack of ambition in the 1-0 first-leg defeat at Shenhua a week earlier — Martins the scorer.
Source: ( Punch Newspaper)
