Qu Bo and Jiang Ning were both guilty of missing good chances as China PR drew 0-0 with Senegal in an international friendly in Harbin today.

The hosts, who were fine-tuning their squad ahead of their AFC Asian Cup 2011 qualifier against Lebanon on 14 November, displayed fluent attacking football throughout but their forwards failed to turn the chances into goals.

China's best efforts all came late on as Qu first latched on to Jiang's well-timed through ball shortly before the hour mark, but chipped he over the bar. Jiang then found himself unmarked inside the box soon after, but his close-range attempt was denied by the goalkeeper.

"The match would have been perfect if we could have scored a goal," said China coach Gao Hongbo. "But the result wasn't very important and we should take lessons from the match before the coming Asian Cup qualifier."

China were defeated 3-2 by Syria in their opening Asian Cup Group D match on 14 January, before they beat Vietnam 6-1 at home.

"China's pace was impressive and we had to defend well today," said Senegal interim coach Amsatta Fall. "But we didn't do well in counter-attack. Our crosses were too inaccurate."