The league table is allowed to rest as Dalian Professional and Shanghai SIPG battle for FA Cup honors in this first Quarter-finals leg of two fixtures.
The visiting Shanghai SIPG played their last game only four days ago, a FA Cup match. That game, against Shaanxi Chang'an, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Shanghai SIPG.
It's quite the trip for Shanghai SIPG when visiting Dalian Professional as the cities are 1000 kilometers apart.
Dalian Professional form and stats
Last season, Professional's FA Cup journey ended in the 1st round.Dalian Professional's struggle is real here with only 4 points collected from 7 Super League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-1-5. It's trouble wherever Dalian Professional are playing these days as they have suffered four straight defeats now, regardless of arena. They really need to get back to winning ways.
Dalian Professional's previous game was a FA Cup match also played at home, ending 2-0 versus Tianjin Teda. The home side are looking to build on that result.
Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against China PR U20.The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Professional here in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (5 from 7 games). Professional are struggling defensively, conceding on average more than two goals per home game (14 from 7 played).
Shanghai SIPG form and stats
Last season their FA Cup adventure ended in the 2nd round.The story so far for the visiting team on their Super League travels is 2 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats.
Shanghai play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-1 victory visiting Shaanxi Chang'an.
Before that, Shanghai SIPG secured a home win against Xi'an Daxing Chongde with the score 1-0.With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Shanghai are regular goalscorers on their travels. It's not easy to score on Shanghai as they have only conceded 6 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: one - three - six (Professional wins - draws - Shanghai SIPG wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  W. Lü 6 goals |   L. Lin 5 goals | R. Lopes Pereira 4 goals |
Dalian Professional missing players
Shanghai SIPG missing players
| Dalian Professional | Shanghai SIPG | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Won | W | 6 | 13 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 3 | 4 | ||
| 17 | 9 | Lost | L | 3 | 8 | ||
| 25 | 11 | Scored | S | 22 | 39 | ||
| 44 | 26 | Conceded | C | 12 | 25 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 76% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 68% | ||
| 56% | 54% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 52% | ||
| 28% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 24% | ||
| 12% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 12% | ||
| 44% | 46% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 36% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 36% | ||
| 40% | 38% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 36% | ||
| 6 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.2 | 5.9 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 4.5 | ||
| 2.1 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.2 | ||
| 4 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 11.4 | 11.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.3 | 11.5 | ||
| 3.2 | 3.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 4.3 | ||
| 32% | 27% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 38% | ||
| 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 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 30 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 23 | 28 |
| 2 | Changchun Yatai | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 23 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 28 |
| 3 | Beijing Guoan | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 24 |
| 4 | Hebei CFFC | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 23 |
| 5 | Shanghai Shenhua | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 22 |
| 6 | Wuhan Zall | 14 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -8 | 11 |
| 7 | Tianjin Teda | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 29 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 10 | -18 | 9 |
| 8 | Dalian Professional | 14 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 29 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 15 | -17 | 7 |
- South China Morning Post - News (in English)