Fasten your seatbelt before the show! Today's leading antagonists are Wuhan Three Towns and Shanghai Shenhua, 3 points is the prize and 90 minutes the length.
- Shanghai Shenhua have the most clean sheets (9) in Super League
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Wuhan Three Towns form and stats
The complete Super League results at home this season for Wuhan Three Towns are 4-5-1 (wins-draws-losses). Wuhan has won so many consecutive home games (four in a row) that they struggle to remember the last time points were lost here at Wuhan Sports Center Stadium. We remember; it was Dalian Pro.
The Wuhan Three Towns club members enjoyed the previous game, watching their team host Henan Songshan Longmen and win 4-2. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today? The versatile forward Aziz edged out all others in that fixture and got a match rating of 7.74 out of 10. Aziz scored one goal and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Hangzhou (1-2).An interesting fact: 10 of the most recent 12 league games from these players have had at least one goal from each side.
The Wuhan Three Towns fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 14 in 10 matches. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. On the other hand, Wuhan Three Towns have conceded 11 goals.
Shanghai Shenhua form and stats
5 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Shanghai Shenhua playing as the away team in the Super League this season.
Shanghai are travelling after their nice 3-0 home win in the match against Shenzhen (placed 16th). Those three points felt sweet as this side had gone three league rounds without victory. The attacker Malele got a match rating of 9.13 in that game. Malele scored two goals, served one assist, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.
Preceding that game, the 1-2 loss visiting Dalian Pro's place.The visiting Shanghai Shenhua have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 11 goals from 10 games.
Head 2 Head
Shanghai Shenhua - Wuhan Three Towns 1-1 was the outcome when these squads previously did battle, some time ago this season. Head to head statistics (for the previous three meetings): Wuhan won one game, two matches ended in a draw and Shanghai Shenhua got zero wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: one / two. One of the profiles has been Marcão with 3 goals scored against Shanghai Shenhua in these 3 meetings.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Yakubu 10 goals |   C. Malele 8 goals |  H. Yu 5 goals |
Wuhan Three Towns missing players
Shanghai Shenhua missing players
| Wuhan Three Towns | Shanghai Shenhua | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 21 | 10 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 10 | 21 |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 5 | 11 |
| 9 | 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 34 | 14 | 4 | Scored | S | 2 | 11 | 24 |
| 24 | 11 | 6 | Conceded | C | 6 | 10 | 21 |
| 90% | 80% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 86% | 70% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 60% | 62% |
| 52% | 40% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 40% | 38% |
| 24% | 20% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 10% | 10% |
| 14% | 20% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 5% |
| 71% | 60% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 50% | 48% |
| 24% | 30% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 40% | 43% |
| 14% | 30% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 10% | 10% |
| 4.4 | 4.4 | 3.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 3.4 | 3.7 |
| 4.4 | 4.9 | 3.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 3.7 | 4.4 |
| 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.3 | 2 | 1.6 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 16.7 | 17.8 | 13 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.3 | 11.6 | 12.4 |
| 5.9 | 6.2 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 3.8 | 4.1 |
| 28% | 23% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 18% | 29% | 28% |
| 10.6 | 9.7 | 10.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.7 | 10.5 | 10.8 |
| 3.6 | 3.7 | 5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 2.9 | 3.8 |
- Shanghai Shenhua have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Shanghai Shenhua have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (8) in Super League
- Shanghai Shenhua have the most clean sheets (9) in Super League
- Shanghai Shenhua haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Shanghai SIPG | 21 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 47 | 15 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 4 | 32 | 52 |
| 2 | Shanghai Shenhua | 21 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 24 | 21 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 38 |
| 3 | Chengdu Qianbao | 21 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 34 | 24 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 36 |
| 4 | Shandong Taishan | 21 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 37 | 19 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 18 | 35 |
| 5 | Wuhan Three Towns | 21 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 34 | 24 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 13 | 10 | 33 |
| 6 | Beijing Guoan | 21 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 35 | 27 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 25 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 8 | 32 |
| 7 | Hangzhou | 21 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 32 | 28 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 4 | 32 |
| 8 | Tianjin Jinmen Tiger | 21 | 6 | 13 | 2 | 26 | 21 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 31 |
| 9 | Cangzhou | 21 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 26 | 31 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 17 | -5 | 30 |
| 10 | Changchun Yatai | 21 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 34 | 35 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 19 | -1 | 28 |
| 11 | Meizhou Hakka | 21 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 32 | 41 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 26 | -9 | 22 |
| 12 | Qingdao Jonoon | 21 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 25 | 32 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 16 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 16 | -7 | 19 |
| 13 | Henan Songshan Longmen | 21 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 21 | -10 | 19 |
| 14 | Nantong Zhiyun | 21 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 17 | 28 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 13 | -11 | 16 |
| 15 | Dalian Pro | 21 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 18 | 29 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 19 | -11 | 15 |
| 16 | Shenzhen | 21 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 19 | 55 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 21 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 34 | -36 | 12 |
- South China Morning Post - News (in English)
