Changchun Yatai greet Dalian Professional with expectations of taking all three points. Will they? Read our preview!
- Changchun Yatai is in the best form (4-1-1)
- Dalian Professional have the most conceded goals (26) in Super League
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 Changchun Yatai and Dalian Professional.
Changchun Yatai form and stats
14 points is a decent return from 6 Super League games here at Suzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium for Changchun Yatai. The data says 4 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses. The Changchun fans aren't used to losing league-games here at Suzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium and will expect new points from this game. Changchun Yatai has played twelve games in a row here without a defeat.
Changchun Yatai lost their last game at Beijing Guoan (placed 5th) after a 1-2 scoreline. Serginho (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.04/10. Serginho hit five key passes and dribled passed the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Ahead of that match, Changchun Yatai won a home game hosting Hebei CFFC (3-0).Changchun are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found eleven matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won five, drew four and lost two.
Changchun Yatai has scored 8 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches. As for guarding their own goal, Changchun have only let in 1 goal at home.
Dalian Professional form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Dalian Professional so far with only 3 points returning home. The records show 1-0-5 (win-draw-lose). Three has not been a lucky number for Professional as they have been defeated three times in a row since the Tianjin Teda match.
There might be some fixture complaints from Professional as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, the Super League match against Wuhan Zall (1-2). Liangming Lin got a match rating of 7.6 in that game, top player of the team. Lin scored one goal, hit three key passes and had 23 successful passes (of 26 total).
A loss against Shanghai Shenhua was the result prior to that, in a home game.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Professional played away with similar odds. This revealed six games. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, zero were draws and the home team won as expected six times.
The visiting Professional have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 6 goals from 6 games. For Professional, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
These competitors have played before this season: Dalian Professional - Changchun 1-2. Head-2-head stats last nine meetings: four - two - three (Changchun wins - draws - Dalian Professional wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  G. Figueiredo Pinto Júnior 9 goals |  E. Nascimento de Lima 4 goals |  L. Lin 4 goals |
Changchun Yatai missing players
Dalian Professional missing players
| Changchun Yatai | Dalian Professional | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 20 | 8 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 6 | 11 |
| 10 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 12 | 26 |
| 77% | 67% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 69% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 83% | 69% |
| 62% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 54% |
| 15% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 31% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 17% | 23% |
| 54% | 17% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 46% |
| 46% | 83% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 23% | 33% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 50% | 46% |
| 4.2 | 3.7 | 7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 3.8 | 4.2 |
| 5.3 | 6 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 13 | 5 | 4.9 |
| 1.6 | 2.2 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 12.8 | 12.5 | 15 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 9.8 | 9.8 |
| 5.2 | 4.7 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 1.7 | 2 |
| 29% | 29% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 60% | 42% |
- Changchun Yatai have not yet lost a game at home.
- Changchun Yatai have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Changchun Yatai have the most matches over the total-line (8) in Super League
- Changchun Yatai have the most points from losing position (7) in Super League
- Changchun Yatai is in the best form (4-1-1)
- Dalian Professional have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Dalian Professional have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Dalian Professional have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Dalian Professional have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Super League
- Dalian Professional have the most conceded goals (12) away in Super League
- Dalian Professional have the most conceded goals (26) in Super League
- Dalian Professional have the most conceded goals in the second half (14) in Super League
- Dalian Professional have the the worst goal difference (-15) in Super League
- Dalian Professional have the the worst goal difference (-6) away in Super League
- Dalian Professional haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Dalian Professional is in the worst form (1-0-5)
| 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 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 25 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 18 | 25 |
| 2 | Changchun Yatai | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 25 |
| 3 | Shanghai Shenhua | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 22 |
| 4 | Hebei CFFC | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 22 |
| 5 | Beijing Guoan | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 21 |
| 6 | Wuhan Zall | 13 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -8 | 10 |
| 7 | Tianjin Teda | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 24 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -13 | 9 |
| 8 | Dalian Professional | 13 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 12 | -15 | 7 |
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