The Hangzhou & Meizhou Hakka managers X. Zheng and M. Rospide are both dreading and looking forward to this decisive game in the upper regions of the League One league table.
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.
It's quite the trip for Meizhou Hakka when visiting Hangzhou as the cities are 1000 kilometers apart.
Hangzhou form and stats
3-0-1 (win-draw-lost) are the League One numbers at home for Hangzhou, who have the most points (9) at home in League One, so far this season.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Jiangxi Liansheng and winning 2-0.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Hangzhou as they are travelling to their away game against Shenyang Urban in the League One. That match is four days after this one.
The Hangzhou fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 7 goals in 4 league matches. Defensively Hangzhou have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (2 in 4 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Meizhou Hakka form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most scored goals (16) in League One, on their League One travels is 3 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Guizhou Zhicheng at their stadium, the result 1-0.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Shaanxi Chang'an in just four days.
Meizhou Hakka have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 9 goals from 4 away matches. Meizhou are tight as a drum on their travels, having allowed the opposition only 2 goals away.
Head 2 Head
Meizhou Hakka - Hangzhou 2-2 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last seven matches): Hangzhou three wins, two draws and Meizhou Hakka two victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  L. Doumbouya 5 goals |   C. Martins de Souza Ladislau 4 goals |  D. Ndlovu 3 goals |
Hangzhou missing players
Meizhou Hakka missing players
| Hangzhou | Meizhou Hakka | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | 7 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 9 | 16 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 88% |
| 75% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 75% | 75% |
| 38% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 25% | 25% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 50% | 25% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 25% | 38% |
| 38% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 75% | 62% |
| 12% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 2.2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.2 | 2.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 78 | 47 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 45 | 93 |
| 27 | 16 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 20 | 40 |
| 48% | 44% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 45% | 40% |
- Hangzhou has the fewest conceded goals (2) at home in League One
- Hangzhou has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in League One
- Hangzhou has the most dropped points from leading position (6) in League One
- Hangzhou has the most points (9) at home in League One
- Hangzhou has the the best goal difference (+5) at home in League One
- Hangzhou have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Hangzhou have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Hangzhou haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Meizhou Hakka has the fewest matches under the total-line (3) in League One
- Meizhou Hakka has the most clean sheets (3) away in League One
- Meizhou Hakka has the most clean sheets (5) in League One
- Meizhou Hakka has the most matches over the total-line (4) in League One
- Meizhou Hakka has the most points (10) away in League One
- Meizhou Hakka has the most scored goals (16) in League One
- Meizhou Hakka has the most scored goals (9) away in League One
- Meizhou Hakka has the most scored goals in the second half (10) in League One
- Meizhou Hakka has the the best goal difference (+10) in League One
- Meizhou Hakka has the the best goal difference (+7) away in League One
- Meizhou Hakka have not yet lost a game.
- Meizhou Hakka have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Meizhou Hakka have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Meizhou Hakka haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Meizhou Hakka is in the best form (4-2-0)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Meizhou Hakka | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 10 | 18 |
| 2 | Hangzhou | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 15 |
| 3 | Shaanxi Chang'an | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 12 |
| 4 | Guizhou Zhicheng | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | -1 | 8 |
| 5 | Shenyang Urban | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | -3 | 5 |
| 6 | Jiangxi Liansheng | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -13 | 4 |
- South China Morning Post - News (in English)