Intro:

Marcelo Lippi's Guangzhou Evergrande start life without Dario Conca with 3-0 win against Henan Jianye in Guangzhou, China.

Script:

It was the 2013 treble winners Guangzhou Evergrande against newly promoted Henan Jianye in the opening game of the Chinese domestic campaign.

Marcello's Lippi's side lost Dario Conca to Fluminense in the off-season, but it seems Lippi replacements are good choices,

New Brazilian signing Rene Junior opened the scoring in the 53rd minute.

Another big signing, Alessandro Diamanti, nearly doubled the lead in the 62nd minute with a long range strike, but it was knocked away by the Henan defence.

But the corner kick that followed proved to be more fruitful, Xu Guangliao reacted quickest to his own header to make it 2-0 to Guangzou.

Guangzhou then capped off a convincing win in the 70th minute when Gao Lin fed Dong Xuesheng for an easy finish into the empty net.

The champions off to a winning start.