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Lippi's Guangzhou Evergrande target great escape

Marcello Lippi's Guangzhou Evergrande need to pull off a great escape act Tuesday when they will try to overturn a two-goal deficit against Al Ittihad to reach the AFC Champions League semi-finals.

Guangzhou Evergrande's Xiaoting Feng and Al Ittihad's Diego Souza (L) during their AFC Champions League quarter-final match on September 19. Guangzhou need to pull off a great escape act Tuesday when they will try to overturn a two-goal deficit against Al Ittihad to reach the AFC Champions League semi-finals.

Super-rich Guangzhou, debutants in the competition, had the two-time Asian champions on the ropes two weeks ago, when goals by Gao Lin and Huang Bowen gave them a 2-1 half-time lead in the first leg of their quarter-final in Jeddah.

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