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Just watched the game, absolutely gutted at that.

Auckland dominated for the first 15, Lea'alafa the best player on the park for that period. Then the game went Shandong's way for a while before it evened out. Less than a minute into the second half Lea'alafa latches onto a lucky deflection and slots it, 1-0. Guedes scores from a free kick to make it 1-1, which i'm pretty miffed about because it was a non-foul, and if the wall had jumped properly they would have stopped it.

Was all Shandong after that, leading to their second in the 88th minute, Zubikarai parries a long shot (saw it late I think, otherwise definitely should have held) into the path of Guedes who was surely the best player on the night - Fellaini absent and Pelle did nothing all game apart from be a head to aim at.

Lea'alafa seemed to get badly injured in the 60th, which is a shame as he was fantastic. Tavano also very good. Passing out of defense was shocking (Bilen and Berlanga especially), cost us a lot of possession. Manickum made a good impact coming on for Lopez at half time, it was his deflected pass that saw Lea'alafa score.

Crowd was awesome, cheered at every goal and every nice move - Tavano's silky nutmeg, Vale beating two players at the corner flag, Guedes hitting the post - and applauding Lea'alafa when he went off injured. Good stuff, very disappointed at the result but can't forget this is a team paying Fellaini more than NZD $50 million a year.

Just watched the game, absolutely gutted at that.

Auckland dominated for the first 15, Lea'alafa the best player on the park for that period. Then the game went Shandong's way for a while before it evened out. Less than a minute into the second half Lea'alafa latches onto a lucky deflection and slots it, 1-0. Guedes scores from a free kick to make it 1-1, which i'm pretty miffed about because it was a non-foul, and if the wall had jumped properly they would have stopped it.

Was all Shandong after that, leading to their second in the 88th minute, Zubikarai parries a long shot (saw it late I think, otherwise definitely should have held) into the path of Guedes who was surely the best player on the night - Fellaini absent and Pelle did nothing all game apart from be a head to aim at.

Lea'alafa seemed to get badly injured in the 60th, which is a shame as he was fantastic. Tavano also very good. Passing out of defense was shocking, cost us a lot of possession. 

Crowd was awesome, cheered at every goal and every nice move - Tavano's silky nutmeg, Vale beating two players at the corner flag, Guedes hitting the post - and applauding Lea'alafa when he went off injured. Good stuff, very disappointed at the result but can't forget this is a team paying Fellaini more than NZD $50 million a year.

Just watched the game, absolutely gutted at that.

Auckland dominated for the first 15, Lea'alafa the best player on the park for that period. Then the game went Shandong's way for a while before it evened out. Less than a minute into the second half Lea'alafa latches onto a lucky deflection and slots it, 1-0. Guedes scores from a free kick to make it 1-1, which i'm pretty miffed about because it was a non-foul, and if the wall had jumped properly they would have stopped it. Then Shandong score in the 88th minute, Zubikarai parries into the path of Guedes who was surely the best player on the night - Fellaini absent and Pelle did nothing all game apart from be a head to aim at.

Lea'alafa seemed to get badly injured in the 60th, which is a shame as he was fantastic. Tavano also very good. Passing out of defense was shocking, cost us a lot of possession. 

Crowd was awesome, cheered at every goal and every nice move - Tavano's silky nutmeg, Vale beating two players at the corner flag, Guedes hitting the post - and applauding Lea'alafa when he went off injured. Good stuff, very disappointed at the result but can't forget this is a team paying Fellaini more than NZD $50 million a year.