There's been ups and downs for these two teams so far this season, occupying positions near the middle of the League One table so far. Here's the Heilongjiang Lava Spring - Nantong Zhiyun latest:
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
Heilongjiang Lava Spring form and stats
0-4-1 (win-draw-lost) are the League One numbers at home for Heilongjiang Lava Spring, who have the fewest conceded goals (6) in League One, so far this season. Heilongjiang have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.
An away draw last time out for Heilongjiang, facing Nantong Zhiyun in a game that ended 1-1. Before that, Heilongjiang drew at home versus Xinjiang Tianshan.
The hometeam coach H. Li made a successful contribution in the game against Nantong Zhiyun, bringing on D. Ewolo who scored the equalizer in the 1-1 draw.
The manager H. Li will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Jiangxi Liansheng in only four days.
Heilongjiang have scored 2 goals here in 5 league matches, a depressing statistic. Heilongjiang Lava Spring are not conceding a lot of goals here in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 3 from 5 matches.
Nantong Zhiyun form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their League One travels is 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat.
Nantong's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Heilongjiang Lava Spring that finished 1-1. Prior to that result Nantong Zhiyun won their away game at Sichuan. The scoreline was 2-1.
A new game in only four days for Nantong, the League One home match versus Suzhou Dongwu. Busy days.
Nantong find the net regularly in their away games. 5 goals from 5 away fixtures in the league. As opposed to that, Nantong have seen the ball go into their own net 6 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Nantong Zhiyun - Heilongjiang 1-1 entered in the official records. Head-2-head stats last four meetings: one - two - one (Heilongjiang wins - draws - Nantong Zhiyun wins). As for goals, zero matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Xu 4 goals |  B. Fan 2 goals | M. Kovačević 2 goals |
Heilongjiang Lava Spring missing players
Nantong Zhiyun missing players
| Heilongjiang Lava Spring | Nantong Zhiyun | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 5 | 10 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 9 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 6 | 9 |
| 60% | 60% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 80% | 80% |
| 40% | 40% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 60% | 60% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 60% | 30% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 10% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 40% | 40% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 40% | 40% |
| 50% | 40% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 40% | 40% |
| 50% | 60% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 40% | 40% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.4 | 1.6 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.8 | 1.6 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 80 | 40 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 35 | 66 |
| 33 | 18 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 13 | 24 |
| 15% | 11% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 38% | 38% |
- Heilongjiang Lava Spring has the fewest conceded goals (6) in League One
- Heilongjiang Lava Spring has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (4) in League One
- Heilongjiang Lava Spring has the fewest matches over the total-line (1) in League One
- Heilongjiang Lava Spring has the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) in League One
- Heilongjiang Lava Spring have yet to win a game at home.
- Nantong Zhiyun has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in League One
- Nantong Zhiyun has the most scored goals in the first half (5) in League One
- Nantong Zhiyun have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Nantong Zhiyun have scored at least twice as many goals away as Heilongjiang Lava Spring have scored home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Changchun Yatai | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 13 | 21 |
| 2 | Zhenjiang Huasa | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 18 |
| 3 | Nantong Zhiyun | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 16 |
| 4 | Heilongjiang Lava Spring | 10 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -1 | 10 |
| 5 | Sichuan | 10 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 5 | -4 | 9 |
| 6 | Xinjiang Tianshan | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -11 | 3 |
- South China Morning Post - News (in English)