National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Heilongjiang Lava Spring or Shangyu Pterosaur that keep their silverware dream alive.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Heilongjiang Lava Spring and Shangyu Pterosaur.
Heilongjiang Lava Spring form and stats
Heilongjiang have not come this way in the FA Cup without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Shangyu Pterosaur. Heilongjiang Lava Spring was eliminated in the 1st round last season in the FA Cup.Perfect League One season at home so far for Heilongjiang Lava Spring 2 wins from 2 appearances.
Nothing to worry about in defence for Heilongjiang, as their goalkeeper has completely shut out the opponents for 275 minutes in the League One.
Heilongjiang Lava Spring's previous fixture was a FA Cup game also played at their own arena, finishing 1-0 against Shangyu Pterosaur. The home team hope to to continue in that form.
Previous to that game, a League One home match hosting Shanghai Jiading in a game that was won 1-0.It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Heilongjiang Lava Spring at home in the league. 2 on target and 0 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.
Shangyu Pterosaur form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Yili Nine Towns and Heilongjiang Lava Spring in order to reach 2nd round of FA Cup.It's not happening yet for Shangyu Pterosaur on their League Two travels, with zero points from their first 3 away games. Maybe today will be different?
Two away matches in a row for Pterosaur, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 vs Heilongjiang Lava Spring in the FA Cup.
Prior to that match, the Shangyu Pterosaur manager Li faced defeat when travelling to Yunnan Yukun and losing 0-5.Shangyu Pterosaur are huge outsiders in this game. Running a check in our games database we found 7 matches where they were as big outsiders as an away team. Results were 2 wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats. Of the defeats, 1 game were lost by at least two goals margin.
For Pterosaur, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  S. Tang 3 goals |   Y. Sun 2 goals | E. da Silva Ferreira 1 goals |
Heilongjiang Lava Spring missing players
Shangyu Pterosaur missing players
| Heilongjiang Lava Spring | Shangyu Pterosaur | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 13 | 21 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Won | W | 4 | 7 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | ||
| 9 | 3 | Lost | L | 7 | 12 | ||
| 26 | 9 | Scored | S | 9 | 21 | ||
| 28 | 9 | Conceded | C | 17 | 35 | ||
| 92% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 64% | 45% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 46% | 62% | ||
| 36% | 27% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 31% | 48% | ||
| 16% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 15% | 29% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 19% | ||
| 44% | 36% | BTTS | BTTS | 31% | 43% | ||
| 36% | 45% | Clean Sheets | C S | 23% | 29% | ||
| 28% | 27% | Failed to Score | F T | 46% | 29% | ||
| 4.6 | 4.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.2 | 2.4 | ||
| 3.9 | 3.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.8 | 3.5 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.1 | 1.4 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 7.9 | 8.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 4.1 | 4.9 | ||
| 2.8 | 2.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.5 | 2.1 | ||
| 37% | 28% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 47% | 49% | ||
| 6.8 | 7.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.4 | 7.8 | ||
| 2.6 | 1.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.8 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Guangxi Baoyun | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 17 |
| 2 | Qingdao Youth Island | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 17 |
| 3 | Sichuan | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 |
| 4 | Nanjing City | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 |
| 5 | Hebei Kungfu | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | Suzhou Dongwu | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
| 7 | Heilongjiang Lava Spring | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 11 |
| 8 | Jinan Xingzhou | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 11 |
| 9 | Dantong Hantong | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| 10 | Yanbian Longding | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 11 | Dongguan United | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -2 | 9 |
| 12 | Shenyang Urban | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -3 | 7 |
| 13 | Jiangxi Liansheng | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | -5 | 4 |
| 14 | Shanghai Jiading | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -9 | 3 |
| 15 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -6 | 2 |
| 16 | Wuxi Wugou | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 | -12 | 2 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Yunnan Yukun | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 10 |
| 2 | Chongqing Tongliang Long | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 10 |
| 3 | Yichun Grand Tiger | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | -2 | 9 |
| 4 | Guangxi Lanhang | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 5 | Hainan Star | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 3 |
| 6 | Shangyu Pterosaur | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | -5 | 3 |
| 7 | Hunan Xiangtao | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -3 | 2 |
| 8 | Quanzhou Yassin | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | -7 | 1 |
- South China Morning Post - News (in English)
