Match Day 4 Tuesday of the AFC Champions League 2010 resulted in some upsets and wake up calls for many teams that had a easy road so far.

Group B

Zob Ahan have managed 2 major upsets in a matter of weeks against the Uzbek aristocrats Bunyodkor on Tuesday.

They followed up their MD3 3-0 home victory with a 1-0 win that takes them to the top of the table with 10 points and sends Bunyodkor tumbling down to third, with six points.

Group A
Esteghlal 3-0 Al Gharafa
Al Ahli 5-1 Al-Jazira
Al Gharafa couldn’t compete with Esteghlal today and went down 3-0 in the Azadi Stadium today. Esteghlal striker Farhad Majidi bagged himself two goals today. Majidi put the hosts ahead after a quarter of an hour before doubling their lead ten minutes after the break. Defender Pejman Montazeri then sealed the victory ten minutes from time.
In Group A’s other fixture, Al-Ahli, who so far have leaked five goals in their first two matches, turned things around against Al Jazira scoring 5 goals and …

Adelaide United have all but qualified for the AFC Champions League round of 16  after an epic 3-2 victory over Sanfrecce Hiroshima at Hindmarsh Stadium.
The Reds are sitting on top of Group H with nine points having won all of their three matches.
Adelaide had the better of the first half and went into half time leading 1 -0 after captain Travis Dodd connected with a curling cross from Marcos Flores with a diving header after 11 minutes.
Sanfrecce was under constant pressure from Adelaide’s counter-attacks and on …

Jinan: Goals in each half from Sergio van Dijk and Matthew Leckie helped Adelaide United to an impressive 2-0 victory over Shandong Luneng at Shandong Sports Centre.
Van Dijk opened the scoring midway through the opening period of the AFC Champions League Group H encounter when the Dutchman got on the end of Lucas Pantelis’ teasing cross at the back post to head the Reds into the lead.
Leckie doubled Adelaide’s lead 20 minutes from the end when the Shandong defence switched off and allowed the youngster to meet Scott Jamieson’s corner …

Quick summary of the results from the remainder of the Matchday 1 games played overnight in Asia’s premier club competition – Asian Champions League.

Group C

Al-Ain 0–1 Pakhtakor Tashkent
Al Shabab 1-1 Sepahan

Group H is made up of the following ACL teams.
Adelaide (AUS) – after several very successful season in the A League Adelaide finished last in 2009, but some rebuilding in the last few weeks should se much different side play in ACL 2010. At this stage couldn’t see them progressing past group stage.
Shandong (CHN) – Mid table result in 2009 so they come into the ACL 2010 with a slight cloud hanging over them. 2009 ACL ended in the group stage, so they will be hoping for better this year.
Sanfrecce …

The Pohang Steelers took top spot in Group H following a win in Japan. Frontale went into their last match in first position but the loss to Pohand meant they finish second.
Central Coast Mariners finished their maiden campaign without victory with a home loss against Tianjin Teda.
The visitors took an early lead through No Byungun before Brazilian striker Denilson with another strike on 72 minutes.
In front of a crowd of 13,633 at the Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium was, Kawasaki midfielder Shin Hyungmin found himself sent off for a second bookable offence …

The Pohang Steelers confirmed their place in the knockout stages of the Asian Champions League with a thrilling 3-2 win over the Central Coast Mariners on Wednesday afternoon, rendering Tianjin Teda’s shock 3-1 home victory over Kawasaki Frontale later in the evening obsolete.
The Mariners and Tianjin were both four points behind Pohang heading into the match, with the Australians and needing victory to keep alive their hopes of progressing past the group stages.
They began horribly in Korea though, Denilson scoring the first of what would become an impressive hat-trick by …

Pohang Steelers coach Sergio Farias believes the Korea Republic side will qualify for the knockout stage of the AFC Champions League even though they were held to a goalless draw by Tianjin Teda.

The visitors dominated the Group H game at Tianjin Teda Stadium with Brazilian striker Denilson almost netting a winner 13 minutes from time as his long-range effort hit the post.

Although they failed to convert their chances, Pohang edged closer to the last 16 and are now four points ahead of Tianjin and Central Coast Mariners with two games to go.

Kawasaki Frontale manager Takashi Sekizuka praised his players for their patient performance which earned his side three points from their 2-1 win over Central Coast Mariners on Tuesday.

The Kawasaki players were frustrated by the slippery pitch caused by heavy rain and the physical performance of the Australian side eager to avenge their 5-0 loss to the Japanese side a fortnight ago.

But after a scoreless first 45 minutes, Brazilian forward Juninho opened the scoring 30 seconds into the second half, firing home after Jong Tae-se’s header had been saved.