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Like all football connoisseurs, Shanghaiist loves nothing better than a good derby. Games like Feyenoord v Ajax where travelling supporters are banned. The sheer evil of Rangers v Celtic. The Latin heat of Real Madrid v Athletic Madrid. The Manchester United v Liverpool grudge match. The Superclásico of Boca Juniors v River Plate. And Shanghai Shenhua v Inter Shanghai lacked the history but not passion before one half upped sticks and moved to Xi'an.

With the game being a derby in some senses, with Xian being known as Inter Shanghai until moving last year, Xian were cheered on by a group of around 100 Inter fans, who couldn't resist turning to oppose their bitter rivals Shenhua.

China's biggest football bad boys, Xian, come to town tonight to take on Shanghai Shenhua in a CSL clash with more complex plot twists than a tornado ripping across your granddad's allotment.

Shanghai's first football derby of the season has added spice tonight thanks to the rip-roaring start to the season by the city's second club, Shanghai Liancheng Zobon.

Inter Shanghai took the honours in the final Shanghai derby of the China Super League season yesterday, whooping Pudong-based Shanghai Zobon 3-0.

Du Wei, the former Shanghai Shenhua footballer, could be about to make his first-team debut for his new club, Scotland's Celtic FC, which he joined at the beginning of September. Manager Gordon Strachan was quoted as saying by the Shanghai Daily, that his new Chinese charge was acclimatising well to the physical demands of the fast and furious Scottish game:

He’s off! The long running Du Wei saga is finally over as Chinese football’s man of the moment has sealed a move to Scottish Premier League club Glasgow Celtic. The former European Cup winners completed the signature of the 23-year-old Shanghai Shenhua defender just in time to beat a transfer deadline.

Shanghai Shenhua rocked the house in Xuhui last night to take the honours in an action-packed Shanghai soccer derby by beating city rivals Inter, 2-1, to maintain second place in the China Super League.

Derby fever sweeps the city Saturday night as the city's two biggest football clubs go head-to-head in the China Super League at Shanghai Stadium.

Shanghai Shenhua must drop their £800,000 (11.7 million RMB) price tag for defender Du Wei if he is to join Celtic, says boss Gordon Strachan.