Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Macau: Kashima Antlers of Japan cruised into a first AFC Champions League semi-final in style on Tuesday, progressing 5-0 on aggregate after an assured 3-0 win in their quarter-final second leg away to China’s Tianjin Quanjian.
The first leg finished 2-0 to Kashima three weeks ago, but Go Oiwa’s side almost offered Tianjin some early encouragement when they gifted Alexandre Pato a free sight of goal in just the third minute at Macau Olympic Stadium.
The former AC Milan star could only direct his close-range attempt straight at a relieved Kwoun Sun-Tae though, and within 10 minutes it was instead Kashima opening the scoring as Serginho nodded home a Yasushi Endo corner from in front of Tianjin goalkeeper Zhang Lu.
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