Super League preview: Can Beijing Guoan edge out victory against Wuhan Zall?

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Competition: China PR Super League
Competition: Tue 03.August
Match begins: 12:30 (UTC)
Venue: Suzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium (30000 seats)

With their 8 point advantage in the league table, Beijing Guoan fans are hoping to see their team collect maximum points from this game against Wuhan Zall.

Insights:
  • Beijing Guoan have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Wuhan Zall have yet to win a game.

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 Beijing Guoan and Wuhan Zall.

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1100 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

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Beijing Guoan form and stats

2 victories, 2 draws and 0 defeats. That’s what Beijing Guoan have to build on here at Suzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium in the Super League. Their last two home games have resulted in two points, meaning they were both draws.

Beijing enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Dalian Professional's place. The match ended 1-0 with Cédric Bakambu scoring. Gang Wang was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.44 out of 10. The defender Wang won 7 of 9 duels.

Before that, Beijing Guoan drew at home versus Shanghai SIPG.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Beijing Guoan have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found four games) they have won two times, drawn one and lost one.

There will be little rest for Beijing after this match as they are travelling to Hebei CFFC for a Super League game in only three days.

Beijing has scored 5 league goals at home this season, in 4 matches. Beijing have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 2 goals.

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Wuhan Zall form and stats

0 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of Wuhan Zall playing as the away team in the Super League this season. The Wuhan manager X. Li is a generous human being, having led his team to four draws in a row during the last 78 days.

Wuhan's last game was the home draw against Changchun Yatai (2-2). Jean Evrard Kouassi, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.11. Kouassi scored one goal, hit three key passes and had 30 successful passes (of 32 total).

Before that, Wuhan Zall travelled to Shanghai Shenhua and returned home with a draw after the game finished 0-0.

We have checked recent matches where Wuhan have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those three games were one victory, one draw and one defeat.

A quick return to home after this game, as Wuhan are hosting Tianjin Teda in the Super League only three days away.

The attacking power of Wuhan when travelling is not overwhelming with 3 goals scored from 5 league matches away. It's not easy to score on Wuhan as they have only conceded 4 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

Beijing and Wuhan Zall have met before this season: Wuhan Zall - Beijing Guoan 0-2. Last eight meetings between the teams: Beijing won six, Wuhan Zall won one and one draw. four games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Beijing GuoanX. Zhang
X. Zhang
3 goals
Beijing GuoanC. Bakambu
C. Bakambu
3 goals
Wuhan ZallJ. Kouassi
J. Kouassi
3 goals

Beijing Guoan missing players

Wuhan Zall missing players

Beijing Guoan Wuhan Zall
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
9 4 2 Played P 2 5 9
4 2 1 Won W 0 0 0
2 2 1 Drew D 2 4 6
3 0 0 Lost L 0 1 3
10 5 2 Scored S 0 3 6
9 2 0 Conceded C 0 4 11
89% 75% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 60% 67%
78% 75% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 60% 67%
33% 25% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 20% 33%
11% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 22%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
44% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 60% 56%
44% 50% 100% Clean Sheets C S 100% 40% 33%
22% 25% 50% Failed to Score F T 100% 40% 44%
 
5 5 3.5 Corners for (avg) C F 2 3.2 3.7
4.3 4.2 4 Corners against (avg) C A 8 5.8 5.3
2.2 2.2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.4 1.3
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
13.6 14 18 Shots (avg) S ( 6.5 9 9.1
4.4 5 6.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1 2.4 2.6
25% 25% 15% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 25% 26%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Beijing Guoan have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Beijing Guoan have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Wuhan Zall have yet to win a 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 Shanghai SIPG 9 5 4 0 16 4 5 4 1 0 8 1 4 1 3 0 8 3 12 19
2 Hebei CFFC 9 5 2 2 10 7 5 3 2 0 7 4 4 2 0 2 3 3 3 17
3 Changchun Yatai 9 4 4 1 12 6 4 2 2 0 3 0 5 2 2 1 9 6 6 16
4 Shanghai Shenhua 9 4 3 2 13 9 4 2 2 0 6 4 5 2 1 2 7 5 4 15
5 Beijing Guoan 9 4 2 3 10 9 4 2 2 0 5 2 5 2 0 3 5 7 1 14
6 Wuhan Zall 9 0 6 3 6 11 4 0 2 2 3 7 5 0 4 1 3 4 -5 6
7 Tianjin Teda 9 1 2 6 6 18 5 1 0 4 5 15 4 0 2 2 1 3 -12 5
8 Dalian Professional 9 1 1 7 5 14 5 1 1 3 3 5 4 0 0 4 2 9 -9 4

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The Chinese Football Association Super League, usually known as the Chinese Super League, is the highest level of football in China. It was founded in 2004 as a rebranding of the former top division. It has16 teams meeting each other home and away for a total of 30 fixtures in a season running from March to November.