Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Qingdao Red Lions & Suzhou Dongwu face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the FA Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
It's no vacation for neither Qingdao nor Suzhou Dongwu as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Qingdao Red Lions form and stats
Qingdao Red Lions have reached this FA Cup stage through battling and winning against Suzhou Dongwu. Qingdao Red Lions was eliminated in the 1st preliminary round last season in the FA Cup.Qingdao Red Lions have secured 6 points from their first three home games in the League Two. A decent catch, still with room for improvement.
The Qingdao goalkeeper is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 183 minutes without conceding a goal in the League Two.
Qingdao Red Lions's previous match was a FA Cup game also played at home, ending 1-0 vs Suzhou Dongwu. The home side hope to to build on that result.
Ahead of that match, Qingdao won a home game hosting Wuhan Chufeng Heli (2-0).Qingdao Red Lions are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 4 goals in 3 games. Qingdao are not conceding a lot of goals here at Qingdao Tiantai Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 2 from 3 matches.
Suzhou Dongwu form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Qingdao Red Lions in order to reach 2nd round of FA Cup. Suzhou Dongwu was sent out of FA Cup in the 2nd round last season.It's gone fairly well in the League One away games so far for Suzhou Dongwu with six points collected from three matches.
Two away matches in a row for Suzhou Dongwu, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 versus Qingdao Red Lions in the FA Cup.
A 1-2 defeat away at Sichuan before that.With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Suzhou are regular goalscorers on their travels.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  C. Lian 3 goals |   L. Wu 3 goals | C. Xu 2 goals |
Qingdao Red Lions missing players
Suzhou Dongwu missing players
| Qingdao Red Lions | Suzhou Dongwu | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 23 | 11 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Won | W | 7 | 13 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | ||
| 11 | 5 | Lost | L | 4 | 7 | ||
| 18 | 7 | Scored | S | 21 | 37 | ||
| 29 | 11 | Conceded | C | 13 | 24 | ||
| 91% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 61% | 64% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 68% | ||
| 30% | 9% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 48% | ||
| 17% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 42% | 24% | ||
| 4% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 4% | ||
| 35% | 18% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 48% | ||
| 39% | 45% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 32% | ||
| 35% | 45% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 24% | ||
| 2.8 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.2 | 4.4 | ||
| 4.8 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 4.6 | ||
| 1.4 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.4 | 1.6 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 4.6 | 4.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.3 | 7 | ||
| 2 | 1.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.1 | ||
| 41% | 37% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 58% | 48% | ||
| 6.4 | 4.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.6 | 7.7 | ||
| 3.3 | 2.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 3.2 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | BIT | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 2 | Qingdao Red Lions | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 9 |
| 3 | Dalian Zhixing | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 4 | Tai'an Tiankuang | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 5 |
| 5 | Nantong Haimen Codion | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | Hubei Huachuang | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 3 |
| 7 | Zibo Qisheng | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -3 | 2 |
| 8 | Wuhan Chufeng Heli | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -4 | 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 | 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 | Shijiazhuang 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 |
- South China Morning Post - News (in English)
