Dalian Professional will plan to draw on their home advantage to get one over today’s opposition. The host team are currently 11 points behind Shandong Luneng.
- Dalian Professional have the most dropped points from leading position (8) in Super League
- Shandong Luneng have the most clean sheets (6) in Super League
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Dalian Professional form and stats
1-2-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Super League numbers at home for Dalian Professional so far this season.
The followers are hoping that Professional will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the match against Hangzhou (placed 8th). Fei (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.52/10. Fei hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
In the match before that, Dalian Professional hosted Changchun Yatai and drew the game 2-2.Dalian Professional are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 5 goals in 4 games. Professional have conceded 5 in these home matches.
Shandong Luneng form and stats
2-0-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Shandong Luneng, who have the most clean sheets (6) in Super League, in their Super League matches away.
It's the second away game in a row for Shandong Luneng, but there's smiles all around after the 2-1 victory versus Changchun Yatai (placed 11th) last time out. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager Hao when Pu scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 64th minute. Midfielder ho was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.03. ho hit three key passes and had 102 successful passes (of 110 total).
Prior to that match, a home win 2-0 against Guangzhou R&F.In the opposite end, Shandong Luneng have conceded 7 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
Professional and Shandong Luneng have met before this season: Shandong Luneng - Dalian Professional 3-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Dalian Professional four wins, zero draws and Shandong Luneng six victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  L. Lin 3 goals |   M. Lima Magalhães 3 goals |  J. Jin 3 goals |
Dalian Professional missing players
Shandong Luneng missing players
| Dalian Professional | Shandong Luneng | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | 5 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 4 | 16 |
| 13 | 5 | 2 | Conceded | C | 3 | 7 | 7 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 75% | 78% |
| 44% | 25% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 50% | 44% |
| 22% | 25% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 22% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 25% | 11% |
| 44% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 50% | 22% |
| 22% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 67% |
| 33% | 25% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 25% | 11% |
| 5.8 | 5.8 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 10 | 11.2 | 9 |
| 4.2 | 3.5 | 1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2 | 1.5 | 2.2 |
| 2 | 2.2 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12.3 | 13.2 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 21.5 | 25.2 | 19.9 |
| 3 | 2.8 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7.5 | 4.2 | 3.9 |
| 41% | 45% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 13% | 24% | 46% |
| 9.9 | 10.2 | 5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 6 | 7.2 | 6.4 |
| 3 | 3.2 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2 | 3 | 1.7 |
- All of Dalian Professional's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Dalian Professional have the most dropped points from leading position (8) in Super League
- Dalian Professional haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Shandong Luneng have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Shandong Luneng have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Shandong Luneng have the most clean sheets (6) in Super League
- Shandong Luneng have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Shandong Luneng have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- Shandong Luneng haven’t played a single 0-0 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 | Wuhan Three Towns | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 21 | 22 |
| 2 | Shandong Luneng | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 21 |
| 3 | Henan Jianye | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 17 |
| 4 | Shanghai Shenhua | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 17 |
| 5 | Beijing Guoan | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 15 |
| 6 | Meizhou Hakka | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 13 |
| 7 | Shanghai SIPG | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 13 |
| 8 | Hangzhou | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 12 |
| 9 | Wuhan Zall | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -2 | 12 |
| 10 | Tianjin Teda | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 11 |
| 11 | Changchun Yatai | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 11 |
| 12 | Dalian Professional | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -2 | 10 |
| 13 | Shenzhen | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -2 | 10 |
| 14 | Shijiazhuang Ever Bright | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -5 | 7 |
| 15 | Chengdu Qianbao | 8 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -3 | 6 |
| 16 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 11 | -11 | 3 |
| 17 | Hebei CFFC | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 10 | -15 | 3 |
| 18 | Guangzhou R&F | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | -18 | 0 |
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