Wuhan Three Towns drew 2:2 with Qingdao Hainiu at the Wuhan Sports Centre. The match ended level in the twenty-sixth round of the Super League. The hosts sat in fifteenth place before kick-off, while the visitors held a comfortable gap in the standings.
By then, the game had already shifted direction twice. Davidson da Luz Pereira opened the scoring in the third minute, but Qingdao responded quickly. Kilian Bevis levelled the score in the nineteenth minute, and just three minutes later he doubled his tally. And here's the thing: the momentum swung entirely before the hour mark.
Wuhan thought they had taken the lead again after the interval, but the technology intervened. A goal for Aziz Yakubu was cancelled in the forty-fifth minute, and Davidson da Luz Pereira found himself denied a second in the fifty-first. To be fair, the visitors defended well enough to keep the result fair, but the hosts grew increasingly restless.
The stalemate finally broke in the eighty-third minute when Davidson da Luz Pereira got over the line for his second. Qingdao had already made changes, bringing on Wang Gengrui and Zhang Chengdong, but the substitution timing could not shift the balance. The home side stretched the back line, but the visitors held their nerve until the final whistle.
The numbers told a story of dominance without reward. Wuhan controlled fifty-two per cent of possession and registered more attacks, yet they failed to convert their chances into a win. Qingdao managed fewer shots but created their opportunities with greater efficiency, especially in the early exchanges.
The draw leaves Wuhan in fifteenth place with twenty-four points, while Qingdao remains fifth with thirty-eight. It was a result that extended the visitors' unbeaten run and kept the hosts firmly in the lower half of the table. The gap between the sides remains significant, but the points shared suggest a competitive encounter.