After the first set of fixtures it's Changchun Yatai - Shenzhen 31-24 in points. Who will triumph in this second Super League fixture of the season?
- Changchun Yatai have not yet lost a game at home.
- Shenzhen have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
Shenzhen have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 3000 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
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 and Shenzhen.
Changchun Yatai form and stats
The season before, Changchun Yatai's league stats were 15 wins, 8 draws and 7 losses, providing 5th place in the League One. During these 30 matches they scored 52 goals and conceded 42. Performing as the home side in the last season Changchun Yatai delivered 7-5-3 (win-draw-lost) with 24 goals and 19 conceded. The Changchun Yatai fans aren't used to losing league-games here at Yuexiushan Stadium and will expect new points from this game. Changchun has played 13 games in a row here without a defeat.
A good away victory last time out for Changchun, who won 2-0 against Guangzhou R&F (placed 8th). The striker Erik was declared "man of the match" for Changchun with the rating of 8.33/10. Erik scored one goal, hit four key passes and dribled past the opponent 3 of 6 times.
Preceding that match was a FA Cup defeat to Shanghai Shenhua (0-2).The match schedule is unforgiving for Changchun Yatai as they have a new game in only three days, a Super League match thankfully also at home. Guangzhou Evergrande are visiting.
Shenzhen form and stats
Let's have a look at how Shenzhen performed last season in the Super League: They landed a 5th position in the league table after playing out 5 victories, 2 draws and 7 defeats. In total they scored 20 and conceded 20 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 3 - drew 1 and lost 3 with 11/10 goals scored/conceded. The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Shenzhen have lost on their last two travels.
Home advantage was not enough for Shenzhen in their previous game, as they lost their Super League-match, hosting Shanghai SIPG, 1-3. Shinar was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.2. The defender Shinar hit one key pass and won 6 of 7 duels.
Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against Shanghai Shenhua in the FA Cup.After this away game Shenzhen return home for a Super League game against Hebei CFFC. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head numbers (for the former ten meetings): Changchun Yatai won eight games, zero matches ended with a draw and Shenzhen got two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: ten / zeroTop Goalscorers
  G. Figueiredo Pinto Júnior 12 goals |  A. de Souza Pereira Junior 7 goals |  E. Nascimento de Lima 5 goals |
Changchun Yatai missing players
Shenzhen missing players
| Changchun Yatai | Shenzhen | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 7 | 15 |
| 9 | 5 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 25 | 11 | 3 | Scored | S | 0 | 16 | 25 |
| 11 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 12 | 21 |
| 80% | 71% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 87% |
| 73% | 57% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 80% |
| 60% | 43% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 86% | 73% |
| 20% | 14% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 43% | 33% |
| 7% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 43% | 20% |
| 53% | 29% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 71% | 67% |
| 47% | 71% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 14% | 20% |
| 20% | 29% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 14% | 27% |
| 4 | 3.1 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 4.4 | 6.3 |
| 5.1 | 5.9 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4.1 | 3.7 |
| 1.5 | 1.9 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 1.4 | 1.9 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12.4 | 11.4 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 20 | 13.4 | 14.8 |
| 5.2 | 4.6 | 9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 5.4 | 5.3 |
| 32% | 34% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 42% | 31% |
| 11.7 | 11.3 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9 | 11.4 | 10.8 |
| 3.9 | 3.3 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1 | 3.4 | 3.7 |
- All of Shenzhen's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Changchun Yatai have not yet lost a game at home.
- Changchun Yatai have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Changchun Yatai have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Shenzhen have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Shenzhen have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Shenzhen 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 | Shandong Luneng | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 36 |
| 2 | Shanghai SIPG | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 31 |
| 3 | Changchun Yatai | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 31 |
| 4 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 30 |
| 5 | Beijing Guoan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 27 |
| 6 | Shenzhen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 24 |
| 7 | Hebei CFFC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 23 |
| 8 | Guangzhou R&F | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 21 |
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