Clash, injury hightlight at Chinese Super League

The Chinese Super League (CSL) seems prone to fierce competition and collision even as the new season just kicked off. There are two players falling into coma after clashes in pitch Saturday in the fifth round.

Iranian international Morteza Pouraliganji fell to the ground suddenly in the 28th minute into the match between Taijin Taida and Guizhou Moutai. The defender had to be delivered to the local hospital by an ambulance on site.

Pouraliganji had a heavy clash with Moutai's goalkeeper Zhang Lie in a header fight ahead of the falling. Pouraliganji was later diagnosed as minor concussion and neck injury, but he got a wound on head which received five stitches.

Taida and Moutai both are struggling the season into the fifth round . Taida are seeking their first win in new season and Moutai have pulled off only one win against three losses before the match, which ended with Taida beating Moutai 1-0.

In another match-up between two strugglers, Shijiazhuang Ever Bright and Shanghai Shenxin, both of which are aiming at first season victory, Yongchang's midfielder Hu Wei was also knocked unconscious to the ground in a header contending. After an instant medical treatment, Hu attempted to stand up and hoped to continue his play, but it's obvious he even could not support himself and fell down again before being replaced and stretchered out of the pitch.

Newly promoted Ever Bright won the relegation zone clubs match 2-1 and Shenxin lost all their five matches the season at the bottom.

In the fourth round, Shanghai SIPG's attacking midfielder Leonardo Conca of Argentina was badly hurt in a foul from Taida's Guo Hao, who had been suspended two matches and fined 1,600 dollars by Chinese Football Association for his unsportsmanship. Conca later took nine stitches in his right leg from the flagrant foul. Endi