China Wrap: Beijing Guoan go top, Evergrande lose

Zhang Xizhe opened the scoring with a penalty five minutes before the break, and Pablo Batalla doubled the advantage eight minutes after the interval to continue his record of finding the net in every league match this season.

Gregorio Manzano's men have now won all three of their opening CSL fixtures and hold a two-point lead at the top of the table.

Tobias Hysen and Wu Lei both found the net in SIPG's 2-1 win at Hangzhou, who saw Wang Lin sent off a minute from time in their first defeat of the campaign.

Renhe matched that result away at Liaoning Whowin, recovering from the setback of Zhao Junzhe's 16th-minute opener to equalise through Yu Hai before Krzysztof Maczynski won it 10 minutes from the end.

At the wrong end of the table, Shanghai Shenxin and Harbin Yiteng's miserable starts to the season continued.

Shenxin took a 14th-minute lead against Guangzhou R&F thanks to Kieza's penalty, but the visitors roared back with Abderrazak Hamdallah's hat-trick sealing a 3-1 success.