Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Cangzhou Mighty Lions & Guangzhou Evergrande face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the FA Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1800 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
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.
Cangzhou Mighty Lions form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the FA Cup for Cangzhou, as the manager Šapurić led his troops to eliminate Yanbian Longding, and reach the 3rd Round. Last season their FA Cup adventure ended in the 2nd round.The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Super League this season. Cangzhou Mighty Lions have only managed 2 wins, 8 draws and 5 losses from their games here at Pennant Hills Park.
The home regulars saw a 1-1 draw versus Henan Jianye last time out and are looking for a victory here. Defender Shihao got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.54/10. Shihao scored one goal and won 7 of 7 duels.
Previous to that game, a Super League home match hosting Wuhan Zall in a game that was won 1-0.Cangzhou Mighty Lions have scored {10 league goals} here from 15 matches, not a lot. Cangzhou Mighty Lions have conceded 17 in these home matches.
Guangzhou Evergrande form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Sichuan in order to reach 3rd round of FA Cup. Evergrande was sent out of FA Cup in the 1st round last season.The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Guangzhou Evergrande so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 1-3-12 (win-draw-lose).
This match can not go any worse than the previous one, the home defeat versus Shandong Luneng with 2-4 on the scoreboard. As you can tell from the result, the match against Shandong Luneng was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today? Yang, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.84. Yang scored one goal and dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times.
A 0-0 draw was the result before that, hosting Guangzhou R&F in the Super League.Goals are few and far between in Guangzhou Evergrande's away league games. Only {7 goals} from 16 travels. As for defending, Guangzhou Evergrande rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 31 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last six meetings: one - two - three (Cangzhou wins - draws - Guangzhou Evergrande wins). As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  J. Kanté Martínez 14 goals |  L. Yang 9 goals | O. Taty Maritu 6 goals |
Cangzhou Mighty Lions missing players
Guangzhou Evergrande missing players
| Cangzhou Mighty Lions | Guangzhou Evergrande | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 9 | 2 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Drew | D | 3 | 8 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Lost | L | 9 | 14 | ||
| 40 | 8 | Scored | S | 10 | 23 | ||
| 38 | 13 | Conceded | C | 24 | 44 | ||
| 92% | 82% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 86% | 80% | ||
| 88% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 71% | 68% | ||
| 52% | 27% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 52% | ||
| 32% | 9% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 14% | 28% | ||
| 28% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 14% | 24% | ||
| 52% | 45% | BTTS | BTTS | 43% | 52% | ||
| 24% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 21% | 24% | ||
| 32% | 36% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 44% | ||
| 3.4 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.9 | 3.6 | ||
| 4.2 | 3.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.3 | 5.6 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1.7 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 10 | 8.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.6 | 9.6 | ||
| 3.8 | 2.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 3.3 | ||
| 42% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 22% | 28% | ||
| 12.9 | 12 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.9 | 14.8 | ||
| 4 | 2.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.9 | 5.1 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Wuhan Three Towns | 31 | 23 | 3 | 5 | 86 | 27 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 50 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 36 | 9 | 59 | 72 |
| 2 | Shandong Luneng | 30 | 22 | 3 | 5 | 73 | 27 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 38 | 7 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 35 | 20 | 46 | 69 |
| 3 | Hangzhou | 31 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 57 | 26 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 25 | 10 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 32 | 16 | 31 | 59 |
| 4 | Shanghai SIPG | 31 | 17 | 5 | 9 | 46 | 25 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 25 | 10 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 15 | 21 | 56 |
| 5 | Chengdu Qianbao | 31 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 42 | 27 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 26 | 13 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 15 | 56 |
| 6 | Beijing Guoan | 31 | 16 | 7 | 8 | 54 | 42 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 28 | 19 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 26 | 23 | 12 | 55 |
| 7 | Henan Jianye | 31 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 52 | 31 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 30 | 16 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 22 | 15 | 21 | 52 |
| 8 | Tianjin Teda | 31 | 14 | 7 | 10 | 45 | 33 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 23 | 14 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 22 | 19 | 12 | 49 |
| 9 | Meizhou Hakka | 31 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 41 | 38 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 28 | 18 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 20 | 3 | 43 |
| 10 | Dalian Yifang | 31 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 46 | 47 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 25 | 25 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 21 | 22 | -1 | 42 |
| 11 | Changchun Yatai | 31 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 45 | 44 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 19 | 19 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 26 | 25 | 1 | 41 |
| 12 | Shanghai Shenhua | 31 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 36 | 33 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 19 | 18 | 3 | 40 |
| 13 | Cangzhou Mighty Lions | 31 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 40 | 47 | 15 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 30 | 30 | -7 | 38 |
| 14 | Shenzhen | 30 | 9 | 3 | 18 | 29 | 58 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 13 | 29 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 29 | -29 | 30 |
| 15 | Guangzhou R&F | 31 | 4 | 5 | 22 | 24 | 57 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 31 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 26 | -33 | 17 |
| 16 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 31 | 3 | 8 | 20 | 22 | 55 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 24 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 31 | -33 | 17 |
| 17 | Wuhan Zall | 31 | 7 | 4 | 20 | 30 | 64 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 33 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 14 | 31 | -34 | 16 |
| 18 | Hebei CFFC | 31 | 2 | 0 | 29 | 17 | 104 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 11 | 57 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 47 | -87 | -3 |
