At 18 o'clock in the evening of March 12, Beijing time, in the second leg of the 1/8 finals of the East Asian Zone of the AFC Champions League Elite League, Shanghai Shenhua challenged Kawasaki Frontale away, and the two sides defeated the opponent 1-0 at home in the first leg.

In the first half, Marsinho missed the empty goal, Asahi Sasaki broke the deadlock on the field, Kodai Takai's goal was blown for offside, He Yuan shot at the post, and Shanghai Shenhua fell behind 0-1 at halftime; In the second half, Erisson and Tatsuya Ito scored two goals in three minutes, and Marsinho scored another goal in stoppage time.

In the end, Shanghai Shenhua lost 0-4 away to Kawasaki Frontale with an aggregate score of 1-4 and stopped in the round of 16 of the AFC Champions League!

Kawasaki Frontale vs Shanghai Shenhua, Kawasaki Frontale lined up a 4231 formation, with only two foreign aids, and the starting value was 8.35 million euros; Shanghai Shenhua,Slutsky discharged the 4321 formation, Mineiro burst forward, followed by Teixeira and Xu Haoyang, Wu Xi, Li Ke, Yang Haoyu formed three midfielders, Chen Jinyi, Eddie, Jiang Shenglong, Manafa formed four defenders, Bao Yaxiong guarded, three foreign aid + one naturalized, starting worth 5.6 million euros。

Nowadays, the Chinese Super League team is really uncompetitive to play in the AFC Champions League. Just as Shanghai Port suffered a heavy defeat to Yokohama Mariner, so did Shanghai Shenhua's away match against Kawasaki Frontale, such a game no longer needs to be analysed by tactics. Japanese players have gone to Europe to stay abroad, and even the strength of the players who play in the J-League in Japan is much stronger than that of Chinese players. It can be seen from the fact that the Shanghai Shuangxiong met the Japanese team in the AFC Champions League and became the Shanghai Double "Bear", the Chinese players are used to playing this kind of slow game in the Chinese Super League, and when they reach the AFC Champions League and the international arena, they can't keep up with the rhythm of the opponent's game at all, either making mistakes or defending with their eyes. Kawasaki Frontale's offense was smooth, and Shanghai Shenhua's players couldn't keep up with the rhythm at all, as if it was a sense of disparity between the senior and the low. In the end, Shanghai Shenhua lost 0-4 to Kawasaki Frontale away, and was eliminated with a total score of 1-4 and missed the promotion.

Full game,Kawasaki Frontale managed 54% possession and a total of 15 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target; Kawasaki Frontale had a total of 11 shots on goal with 4 of them on target。 The game data does not reflect the gap between the two teams, with the Chinese Super League teams in the AFC Champions League all wiped out, which means that the Super League has become 1+1+1, and the Super League runners-up are going to play the play-offs.