It's match week two of the Super League season and everything to play for. Check out our exhaustive preview of Dalian Professional-Guangzhou R&F!
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 2200 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
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 Dalian Professional and Guangzhou R&F.
Dalian Professional form and stats
Last season, Dalian Professional's league results were 10 wins, 8 draws and 12 losses, providing 9th place in the Super League. From these 30 matches they scored 44 goals and gave away 51. Appearing as the host team in the previous season Dalian Professional generated 6-4-5 (win-draw-lost) with 23 goals and 20 conceded.
Professional travelled for their previous game, a trip to Henan Jianye that ended 2-2. The talented striker Lin outperformed all teammates in that fixture and managed a match rating of 8.44 out of 10. Lin scored two goals and dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times.
Preceding that match was the home Play-offs 1/2 game against Chengdu Qianbao that was lost 0-1.There will be little rest for Dalian Professional after this match as they are travelling to Changchun Yatai for a Super League game in only four days.
Guangzhou R&F form and stats
Let's have a look at how Guangzhou R&F performed last season in the Super League: They landed a 12th position in the league table after playing out 9 victories, 5 draws and 16 defeats. In total they scored 54 and conceded 72 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 2 - drew 1 and lost 12 with 22/40 goals scored/conceded. 0-0-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Guangzhou R&F in their Super League matches away.
Two away games in a row for Guangzhou R&F, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-4 versus Changchun Yatai. Wang got a match rating of 7.05 in that game, top player of the team. Wang hit one key pass and had 27 successful passes (of 31 total).
A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Hebei CFFC.A new game in only four days for Guangzhou, the Super League home match versus Shandong Luneng. Busy days.
It's early days yet, but Guangzhou R&F has scored 1 and conceded 4 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).
Head 2 Head
Dalian Professional-Guangzhou R&F H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Dalian Professional three wins, Guangzhou R&F five wins, two draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Dalian Professional missing players
Guangzhou R&F missing players
| Dalian Professional | Guangzhou R&F | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 9 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 40% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 20% | 20% |
| 11 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 15 | 15 |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Dalian Professional | Last season | Guangzhou R&F | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 2 | 1 | Played | P | 11 | 22 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 7 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 5 | 8 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 3 | 7 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 10 | 32 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Conceded | C | 12 | 31 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 91% | ||
| 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 64% | 77% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 27% | 50% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 18% | 36% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 18% | ||
| 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 45% | 59% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 27% | ||
| 50% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 27% | 23% | ||
| 4 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.9 | 3.6 | ||
| 7 | 8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.8 | 5.8 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 1.8 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 5.5 | 5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.1 | 9.4 | ||
| 0.5 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 3.7 | ||
| 100% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 39% | ||
| 12.5 | 10 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14.6 | 14.5 | ||
| 5.5 | 7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.9 | 5.9 | ||
| 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 2 | Changchun Yatai | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | Shenzhen | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Shandong Luneng | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Shanghai Shenhua | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Wuhan Zall | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Dalian Professional | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Henan Jianye | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Meizhou Hakka | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Tianjin Teda | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Beijing Guoan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Shijiazhuang Ever Bright | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 14 | Hangzhou | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 15 | Shanghai SIPG | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 16 | Chengdu Qianbao | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 17 | Guangzhou R&F | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 0 |
| 18 | Hebei CFFC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 0 |
- South China Morning Post - News (in English)
