Loyal fans at Aswan Stadium haven’t enjoyed many home wins this season, with Cangzhou Mighty Lions lying uncomfortably in the 15th spot. The visiting Hangzhou will try to protect their higher league place in this game.
- Cangzhou Mighty Lions have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Hangzhou have the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in Super League
It's quite the trip for Hangzhou when visiting Cangzhou as the cities are 1100 kilometers apart.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Super League. That game was also an away game, at Shanghai SIPG. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
Cangzhou Mighty Lions form and stats
Cangzhou Mighty Lions's results here at Aswan Stadium in the Super League have been very modest with 1 victory, 3 draws and 3 defeats.
Cangzhou Mighty Lions haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 204 minutes ago. Liu scored that one.
The supporters are hoping that Cangzhou Mighty Lions will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the game against Dalian Yifang (placed 14th). Liu was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.32 out of 10. The defender Liu hit one key pass and won 4 of 7 duels.
Preceding that match was the home game against Shandong Luneng that was lost 0-2.Low-scoring affair? Looking at this club's last 12 league games, 9 have contained two goals or less.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Cangzhou Mighty Lions as they have a new game in only four days, a Super League match thankfully also at home. Changchun Yatai are visiting.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Cangzhou here at Aswan Stadium in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (5 from 7 games). Cangzhou Mighty Lions's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 8 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Hangzhou form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Super League travels is 2 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats.
Hangzhou are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at Shanghai SIPG (placed 7th). Mushekwi, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.8. Mushekwi scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Prior to that result Hangzhou won their away game at Shenzhen. The scoreline was 2-0.Low on goals? 10 of this side's latest 12 league rounds have seen zero, one or two goals.
After this away game Hangzhou return home for a Super League game against Hebei CFFC. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Hangzhou have scored 10 goals in 7 league games away. As opposed to that, Hangzhou have seen the ball go into their own net 9 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last eight matches): Cangzhou three wins, four draws and Hangzhou one victory. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  O. Taty Maritu 2 goals |  K. Zheng 1 goals | S. Piao 1 goals |
Cangzhou Mighty Lions missing players
Hangzhou missing players
| Cangzhou Mighty Lions | Hangzhou | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 7 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 12 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 7 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | 5 | 2 | Scored | S | 5 | 10 | 16 |
| 20 | 8 | 5 | Conceded | C | 3 | 9 | 10 |
| 92% | 86% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 85% | 86% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 86% | 75% |
| 31% | 14% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 29% | 17% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 29% | 17% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 14% | 8% |
| 46% | 43% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 71% | 42% |
| 15% | 29% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 14% | 42% |
| 46% | 43% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 14% | 25% |
| 2.5 | 2.9 | 2.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 3.4 | 4.1 |
| 5.8 | 5.1 | 3.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2 | 3.6 | 4.6 |
| 1.5 | 1.1 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.1 | 2.2 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7.4 | 7.3 | 7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 17 | 12.1 | 11.7 |
| 2.3 | 2.4 | 3.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.5 | 5 | 4.3 |
| 30% | 29% | 20% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 29% | 31% |
| 14.9 | 15.9 | 12.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13 | 9.3 | 11.2 |
| 4.4 | 3.9 | 3.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 3.1 | 3.5 |
- Cangzhou Mighty Lions have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- Cangzhou Mighty Lions have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Hangzhou have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Hangzhou have the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in Super League
- Hangzhou have the most matches under the total-line (10) in Super League
- Hangzhou haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| 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 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 44 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 37 | 37 |
| 2 | Shandong Luneng | 13 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 29 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 21 | 33 |
| 3 | Henan Jianye | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 26 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 26 |
| 4 | Meizhou Hakka | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 23 |
| 5 | Shanghai Shenhua | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 22 |
| 6 | Chengdu Qianbao | 13 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 21 |
| 7 | Shanghai SIPG | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 21 |
| 8 | Hangzhou | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 19 |
| 9 | Beijing Guoan | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 17 | 0 | 19 |
| 10 | Tianjin Teda | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 18 |
| 11 | Changchun Yatai | 13 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 23 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 16 | 2 | 16 |
| 12 | Shenzhen | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -4 | 16 |
| 13 | Wuhan Zall | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 18 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 11 | -6 | 16 |
| 14 | Dalian Yifang | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -7 | 11 |
| 15 | Cangzhou Mighty Lions | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 12 | -11 | 10 |
| 16 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 12 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 13 | -14 | 6 |
| 17 | Guangzhou R&F | 13 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 34 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 12 | -25 | 3 |
| 18 | Hebei CFFC | 14 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 9 | 41 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 30 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 11 | -32 | 3 |
- South China Morning Post - News (in English)
