With three goals in five minutes, Wuhan Zall FC came back from 3-1 down to beat Guangzhou R&F 4-3 in a Chinese Super League game in Guangzhou on Saturday.

Zahavi completed his hat-trick just after the hour-mark to gift the home side a 3-1 lead, only to see Rafael da Silva, Song Zhiwei and Jean Evrard Kouassi score in five minutes to turn the match all around.

"We lost the balance between attacking and defense, that was the problem," R&F coach Dragan Stojkovic said after the match.

Zahavi put the ball into right corner at the 17th minute to gift Guangzhou the lead, after Dia Saba penetrated through a shot outside the box. Rafael's calm finish in the 38th minute helped Wuhan equalize. Zahavi slid the ball into the open goal to make it 2-1 for Guangzhou just before the half-time break.

The Israeli followed up to score his third in the 61st minute after the keeper blocked Saba's shot. Leading by 3-1, R&F's defense suddenly collapsed, in only five minutes.

In the 66th minute, Rafael headed in his second goal and narrowed the gap to 3-2 for Wuhan. Three minutes later, Song's header pulled the match level at 3-3.

Wuhan's Kouassi fired in a brilliant winner from a narrow angle just on the left side of the six-yard box with 19 minutes remaining.

Wuhan got up to 6th in the table with R&F now three places behind them.

"The home team played very nice soccer and controlled the ball well most of the time, but we never gave up and fought to the end," Wuhan's coach Li Tie said.

Meanwhile, Hebei Fortune beat Dalian Yifang 1-0 at home. Home-side defender Li Jianbin denied dong Xuesheng in the 38th minute.

In the 66th minute, Zhang Chengdong set up Argentinian Ezequiel Lavezzi, who made it 1-0.

With 20 minutes left, visiting forward Nyasha Mushekwi was sent off for a shove on Zhang and so the match ended 1-0 in Dalian's favor.

(CGTN Sports Scene's Zi Di contributed to the story)