China League One side Wuhan secures promotion

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Newly-promoted Wuhan Three Towns defeated Kunshan FC 2-0 on Monday in the 32nd round of the 2021 China League One, the country's second-tier football league, securing a berth in next season's Chinese Super League (CSL).

With December 13 marking China's National Memorial Day for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre, all players observed a minute's silence before kick-off.

Xun Junmin and Hildeberto Pereira of Kunshan were both sent off before Marcos Vinicius Amaral Alves broke the deadlock for Wuhan in the 48th minute.

In the 83rd minute, former Chinese international Deng Zhuoxiang sealed the win for Wuhan with a close-range effort.

With third-placed Chengdu Rongcheng now eight points adrift of Wuhan with only two rounds of matches remaining, the win confirmed Wuhan's promotion to next season's CSL.

"I am very happy, and I want to thank my family and my club's staff very much," said Wuhan head coach Pedro Morilla in the post-match press conference.

In the other League One game played on Monday, fourth-placed Zhejiang FC smashed Guizhou FC 6-1 to keep its hopes of promotion alive.

While the top two finishers in League One are automatically promoted to the CSL, the third and fourth place finishers enter a post-season playoff with the teams finishing 15th and 16th in the CSL, to determine which teams will play in next season's top tier. 

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