Wuhan Three Towns secured a comprehensive victory at Qingdao Zhongnan's home ground, winning 5-1 in the Super League's Regular Season round 25. The match took place on Friday at the Qingdao Youth Football Stadium under clear conditions. Wuhan's attacking trio proved decisive, with Gustavo Sauer and J. Cadiz each netting twice to dismantle the hosts' defence. Qingdao managed only a late consolation through Song Wenjie after being reduced to ten men.
The visitors took control early, with Gustavo Sauer opening the scoring in the twenty-eighth minute. J. Cadiz doubled the advantage before the interval, capitalising on Qingdao's defensive disorganisation. The hosts struggled to find rhythm, accumulating three yellow cards in the opening half through Zixian Wei, Xu Haofeng and Yangyang Jin. By then, Wuhan had already established a pattern of movement that Qingdao could not match.
Wuhan extended their lead in the sixty-first minute when Gustavo Sauer completed his brace. The hosts attempted to regroup with three substitutions around the sixty-fifth minute, bringing on He Guan, Jin Yangyang and Lin Chuangyi. A controversial moment arrived in the sixty-sixth minute when a Malcom Edjouma goal was cancelled by VAR. The red card for Zixian Wei in the seventy-fourth minute proved catastrophic, leaving Qingdao with insufficient numbers to resist.
Wuhan scored twice within two minutes after the dismissal. K. Bevis found the net in the seventy-eighth minute before J. Cadiz secured his second of the evening. A VAR confirmation in the eighty-first minute validated Cadiz's opening goal, which had been subject to review. Qingdao's resistance crumbled completely as Wuhan controlled the tempo without urgency.
The statistics tell a story of one-sided dominance. Wuhan enjoyed 54 per cent possession and registered nine shots on target compared to Qingdao's seven. Both sides created similar numbers of big chances—four for the hosts, eight for the visitors—but the conversion rates told a different tale. Qingdao's 45 per cent success rate on passes contrasted with Wuhan's higher efficiency in the final third.
The result leaves Wuhan in fifteenth place with twenty-four points from twenty-three matches. Qingdao remain bottom of the table in sixteenth position, having accumulated only twenty-one points from twenty-five games. The visitors' victory extends their unbeaten run to three matches, while the hosts have now lost five consecutive fixtures. A difficult period for Qingdao's supporters, who witnessed their team collapse after the hour mark.