Shenyang Urban will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 7 points behind Hangzhou.
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.
These teams have little in common geographically as Hangzhou have to travel 1200 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Shenyang Urban form and stats
Shenyang Urban have played 4 League One games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 0-3-1 (wins-draws-losses). Shenyang have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.
Shenyang are returning here after visiting Jiangxi Liansheng in a League One game and winning with a 2-0 scoreline. Gao Shipeng and Zhu Shiyu scored the goal(s). In the match before that, Shenyang hosted Guizhou Zhicheng and drew the game 1-1.
Shenyang has scored 4 league goals at home this season, in 4 matches. On the other hand, Shenyang Urban have conceded 5 goals.
Hangzhou form and stats
1-3-0 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Hangzhou in their League One matches away.
Hangzhou's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Meizhou Hakka that finished 1-1. A loss against Shaanxi Chang'an was the result prior to that, in a home game.
Hangzhou has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 6 goals from 4 games. Hangzhou have conceded 4 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Hangzhou - Shenyang Urban 1-0.Top Goalscorers
  C. Martins de Souza Ladislau 4 goals |  D. Ndlovu 3 goals |  N. Mushekwi 3 goals |
Shenyang Urban missing players
Hangzhou missing players
| Shenyang Urban | Hangzhou | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 4 | 2 | Scored | S | 1 | 6 | 14 |
| 9 | 5 | 2 | Conceded | C | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 78% |
| 11% | 25% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 25% | 33% |
| 11% | 25% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 22% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 33% | 75% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 75% | 56% |
| 22% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 33% |
| 44% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 11% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.3 | 2.8 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 69 | 26 | 5 | Total Shots | T S | 6 | 31 | 81 |
| 27 | 12 | 4 | Shots on Target | S O | 3 | 11 | 28 |
| 30% | 33% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 55% | 50% |
- All of Hangzhou's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Hangzhou has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in League One
- Hangzhou has the most dropped points from leading position (8) in League One
- Hangzhou have not yet lost a game away.
- Hangzhou have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Hangzhou haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Shenyang Urban have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Shenyang Urban have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Shenyang Urban have yet to win a game at home.
- Shenyang Urban haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 19 |
| 2 | Hangzhou | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 16 |
| 3 | Shaanxi Chang'an | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 15 |
| 4 | Shenyang Urban | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | -1 | 9 |
| 5 | Guizhou Zhicheng | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | -3 | 9 |
| 6 | Jiangxi Liansheng | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -15 | 4 |
- South China Morning Post - News (in English)