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Updated Thursday, March 11, 2010 9:45 am TWN, AP

Kashima defeats Jeonbuk 2-1 in Asian Champions League

TOKYO -- Substitute Yasushi Endoh scored a last-minute goal for Japan's Kashima Antlers in a 2-1 win over South Korea's Jeonbuk Motors on Tuesday in a match between domestic league winners in the Asian Champions League.

Eninho gave Jeonbuk the lead just before halftime, but Koji Nakata equalized midway through the second half. Endoh, on the field for five minutes, netted the winner with seconds to go.

The victory kept Kashima unbeaten in Group F.

Also in the group, Chinese club Changchun Yatai routed Indonesian visitor Persipura Jayapura 9-0. Gao Jian and Johnny Woodly Lambert scored hat tricks, Liu Weidong added two more and Wang Bo put in a late goal for Changchun.

“The goal frenzy today was not that exciting and important. This was just a new beginning for us in the ACL,” Changchun coach Shen Xiangfu was quoted as saying on the Asian Football Confederation's Web site.

Beijing Guoan and South Korean club Seongnam Ilhwa won again to make an early break in Group E.

Beijing defeated Kawasaki Frontale 3-1, and Seongnam beat Melbourne Victory 2-0. Both winners have six points from two matches, while both losers have no points.

Australian striker Joel Griffiths scored in the 36th minute to give Beijing a 1-0 lead, but Kosuke Kikuchi leveled just four minutes later.

Wang Changqing, who went on at the start of the second half, then gave Beijing a 2-1 lead in the 65th and put the result out of reach with his second goal four minutes from time.

Melbourne fielded a depleted lineup only two days after losing in the A-League semifinals, and conceded the first goal in the 40th to Seongnam defender Sasa Ognenovski. Yun Young-sun headed in a corner five minutes from the end.

In the west division, Uzbek club Bunyodkor had a 2-1 win over United Arab Emirates club Al Wahda with Brazilian Denilson scoring two valuable away goals on either side of half time in their Group B clash.

The Uzbek club leads the group with six points, two ahead of Iran “I am happy with six points from two games and our initial target is to first reach 12 points which I feel should be enough to advance to the next round,” Bunyodkor manager Luis Felipe Scolari, the former Brazil, Portugal and Chelsea coach, was quoted as saying.

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	Kohrogi Shinzoh, center, of Japan's Kashima Antlers and Lim You-Hwan, left, of South Korea's Jeonbuk Motors fight for the ball during a preliminary Group F match of the AFC Champions League in Jeonju, about 200 kilometers south of Seoul on Tuesday, March 9. Kashima Antlers won the match 2-1. (AFP) Enlarge Photo


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