Season ticket holders at Changzhou Olympic Sports Center haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Sichuan languishing in the 5th position so far. The guesting Nantong Zhiyun will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.
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 Sichuan and Nantong Zhiyun.
Sichuan form and stats
When playing at home in the League One, Sichuan, who have the fewest clean sheets (2) in League One, have managed 0 wins, 2 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 4 games.
Happy days for Sichuan in their previous game, a League One match away at Xinjiang Tianshan (placed 6th) that ended with a 2-1 victory. Preceding that game was the home draw versus Heilongjiang Lava Spring that ended 0-0.
Manager Y. Li felt very clever after Song Chen scored the winning goal against Xinjiang Tianshan, having brought on that player as a substitute in the 46th minute.
This is expected to be a close game, with Sichuan perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Sichuan as a small favourite), we find one game. Sichuan has won zero of these, drawn one and lost zero.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Sichuan as they are travelling to their away game against Changchun Yatai in the League One. That match is three days after this one.
Sichuan have scored 1 goal here in 4 league matches, a depressing statistic. Sichuan's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 5 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Nantong Zhiyun form and stats
The visitors are W2-D1-L1 on the road this term. That's in the League One.
Nantong are looking to quickly end their 228 minutes long goal drought in the League One.
It might be tough going out on the road again for Nantong, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-4 versus Changchun Yatai (placed 1st). Preceding that, the 0-1 home loss versus Zhenjiang Huasa.
As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Changchun Yatai was particularly ugly (0-4). The humiliation is still top of mind.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found two similar matches played by Nantong Zhiyun in our archives, and the results are: zero wins for Nantong Zhiyun, one draw and one defeat.
After this away game Nantong return home for a League One game against Heilongjiang Lava Spring. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Nantong as they have only managed to score 3 times from 4 away games in the league. 5 goals have been conceded by Nantong Zhiyun in these games.
Head 2 Head
Sichuan and Nantong Zhiyun have met before this season: Nantong Zhiyun - Sichuan 1-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last three matches): Sichuan zero wins, three draws and Nantong Zhiyun zero victories. As for goals, zero matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  X. Nan 2 goals |   J. Xu 2 goals | M. Ruan da Silva Chagas 2 goals |
Sichuan missing players
Nantong Zhiyun missing players
| Sichuan | Nantong Zhiyun | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 9 | 5 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| 75% | 50% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 75% | 75% |
| 75% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 25% | 25% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 12% | 25% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 12% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 62% | 25% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| 25% | 50% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 38% | 75% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.9 | 3.5 | 4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.8 | 1.4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 59 | 21 | 4 | Total Shots | T S | 8 | 30 | 54 |
| 23 | 8 | 1 | Shots on Target | S O | 5 | 9 | 15 |
| 26% | 12% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 33% | 40% |
- Nantong Zhiyun has the most scored goals in the first half (4) 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 Sichuan have scored home.
- Sichuan has the fewest clean sheets (2) in League One
- Sichuan has the fewest scored goals (1) at home in League One
- Sichuan have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
- Sichuan have yet to win a game at 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 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 17 |
| 2 | Zhenjiang Huasa | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 15 |
| 3 | Nantong Zhiyun | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -1 | 12 |
| 4 | Heilongjiang Lava Spring | 9 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -1 | 9 |
| 5 | Sichuan | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 4 | -3 | 8 |
| 6 | Xinjiang Tianshan | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -10 | 3 |
- South China Morning Post - News (in English)