Trying to decrease the distance up to the top sides is the target when these mid-table sides do battle. Both are aiming to better their league table standing, Zibo Sunday in 12th and Nanjing City in 10th place.
- Zibo Sunday have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
- Nanjing City have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a League One game only four days ago.
Zibo Sunday form and stats
When playing at home in the League One, Zibo Sunday have managed 3 wins, 3 draws and suffered 5 defeats from 11 games.
Sunday are returning here after visiting Jiangxi Liansheng in a League One game and winning with a 5-1 scoreline. Ziming (2) scored the goal(s). As indicated by the result mentioned above, Zibo Sunday played a great game against Jiangxi Liansheng and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.
Before that match, a win away at Heilongjiang Lava Spring.Zibo Sunday have scored 8 league goals here from 11 matches, not a lot. Sunday have conceded 17 from these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
Nanjing City form and stats
3-3-5 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Nanjing City in their League One matches away.
Nanjing City delivered a 2-2 draw playing at home against Heilongjiang Lava Spring (placed 7th) in their previous match; a League One game.
Preceding that game was the away victory against BIT with the score of 3-0.Nanjing find the net regularly in their away games. 14 goals from 11 away fixtures in the league. As opposed to that, Nanjing have seen the ball go into their own net 16 times on the road. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
The records show that this isn''t the first time these teams meet this season, as the records show this recent fixture: Nanjing City - Sunday 2-0.Top Goalscorers
  R. Messi Bouli 15 goals |  X. Zhang 8 goals | Z. Liu 5 goals |
Zibo Sunday missing players
Nanjing City missing players
| Zibo Sunday | Nanjing City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 33 | 16 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 16 | 33 |
| 9 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | 12 |
| 9 | 6 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 15 | 7 | 2 | Lost | L | 2 | 7 | 12 |
| 30 | 10 | 1 | Scored | S | 3 | 18 | 40 |
| 51 | 24 | 4 | Conceded | C | 5 | 22 | 40 |
| 82% | 75% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 94% | 91% |
| 70% | 62% | 25% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 69% | 70% |
| 48% | 44% | 25% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 38% | 42% |
| 27% | 25% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 21% |
| 12% | 6% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 12% |
| 42% | 38% | 25% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 38% | 45% |
| 30% | 31% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 31% | 33% |
| 45% | 56% | 75% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 38% | 30% |
| 2.5 | 2.9 | 1.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.2 | 2.5 | 2.9 |
| 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 6.1 | 5.7 |
| 1.9 | 1.9 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.5 | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4.5 | 4.7 | 1.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.8 | 5.5 | 5.4 |
| 1.6 | 1.7 | 0.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.8 | 1.7 | 2 |
| 53% | 36% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 62% | 60% |
| 9.7 | 10.7 | 10 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.5 | 8.9 | 7.9 |
| 3.5 | 3.7 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 3.2 | 2.8 |
- Nanjing City have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Zibo Sunday have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored 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 | Wuhan Three Towns | 22 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 47 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 6 | 34 | 76 |
| 2 | Meizhou Hakka | 22 | 17 | 1 | 4 | 60 | 24 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 29 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 31 | 9 | 36 | 74 |
| 3 | Chengdu Qianbao | 22 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 52 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 27 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 8 | 38 | 68 |
| 4 | Hangzhou | 22 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 44 | 16 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 10 | 28 | 68 |
| 5 | Nantong Zhiyun | 22 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 42 | 18 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 24 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 5 | 24 | 61 |
| 6 | Shaanxi Chang'an | 22 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 35 | 19 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 16 | 58 |
| 7 | Heilongjiang Lava Spring | 23 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 35 | 29 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 6 | 53 |
| 8 | Zhenjiang Huasa | 23 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 36 | 22 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 12 | 14 | 50 |
| 9 | Sichuan | 22 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 24 | 20 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 4 | 49 |
| 10 | Nanjing City | 23 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 33 | 31 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 2 | 45 |
| 11 | Guizhou Zhicheng | 23 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 39 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 23 | -23 | 39 |
| 12 | Zibo Sunday | 23 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 25 | 33 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 16 | -8 | 36 |
| 13 | Suzhou Dongwu | 22 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 21 | 36 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 22 | -15 | 29 |
| 14 | Jiangxi Liansheng | 23 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 17 | 47 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 29 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 18 | -30 | 26 |
| 15 | Beijing BG | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 26 | 32 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 19 | -6 | 25 |
| 16 | Shenyang Urban | 22 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 42 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 25 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 17 | -27 | 25 |
| 17 | BIT | 23 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 55 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 26 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 29 | -43 | 14 |
| 18 | Xinjiang Tianshan | 23 | 0 | 5 | 18 | 8 | 58 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 32 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 26 | -50 | 9 |
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