Suzhou Dongwu took three points from Hailunjiang Lavaspur in a League One encounter that ended 4:3 on Friday. The visitors held their nerve after Hailunjiang had led twice, and a late goal from M. Ali sealed the win. Both sides had chances to close the gap, but Suzhou's shooting accuracy proved the difference.
The opening goal came early, with Jin Qiang finding the net in the first minute. Hailunjiang responded through Tang Shi at twenty-eight minutes, and M. Palacios made it 2:1 before half-time at thirty-four. By then the match already felt open, and there was no closing it after the break. Wu Junjie doubled his tally almost immediately, scoring in the forty-seventh minute to put the visitors ahead.
Three changes for the hosts at the interval did not shift the momentum. Hailunjiang pulled one back through M. Petrov at seventy minutes, but Suzhou had already built enough of a cushion to survive the pressure. The visitors' goalkeeper made just two saves compared to six for the host keeper, and that tells you something about how the chances were distributed.
Suzhou had more attacks overall — ninety-seven to seventy-six — and created three big chances against Hailunjiang's two. They also completed fifty-three percent of possession and registered ten shots on target to five. Hailunjiang worked twenty-nine backward passes and made eight hundred and eighteen total passes, but the final third was where the visitors edged ahead with sixty-eight passes compared to forty-one.
Both sides picked up a yellow card, D. Gao for Suzhou at thirty-six and B. Wang for Hailunjiang at fifty-three. The substitutions came in waves, with Hailunjiang making three at the break and the visitors spreading theirs across the second half. M. Ali came on and scored at seventy-nine, a switch that ended a barren spell for the home side.
Suzhou moved up to fourteenth place with nineteen points from twenty-one matches, while Hailunjiang remained twelfth on twenty-two. The visitors had won five and drawn seven this season, and this result kept them within reach of the mid-table pack. Hailunjiang's four wins and seven defeats left them with a goal difference that does not reflect the number of goals they have conceded.