Dalian Professional hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 7 points and a 7th position in the Super League table. Visiting Shanghai Shenhua holds 5th place with 16 pts.
- Dalian Professional have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Super League
- Shanghai Shenhua have scored at least twice as many goals away as Dalian Professional have scored home.
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.
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Shanghai Shenhua, who are travelling more than 1000 kilometers to play this game.
Dalian Professional form and stats
With 1 Super League win, 1 draw and 4 defeats from their home games, Dalian Professional are certainly not brimming with confidence. Two defeats in a row at home hurts for Professional, their manager J. González López and the supporters. There are certain expectations for improvement.
The Professional crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-5 to Shanghai SIPG here at Suzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium in a Super League match. Midfield player Long Zheng got a match rating of 7.0 in that game, the max score being 10. Zheng hit two key passes and dribled passed the opponent 3 of 3 times. As you see from the result above, Professional suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one.
In the preceding match a 3-1 victory visiting Tianjin Teda.There will be little rest for Professional after this match as they are travelling to Wuhan Zall for a Super League game in only three days.
Professional has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: 3 goals from 6 games. Professional have conceded 10 from these games.
Shanghai Shenhua form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Super League travels is 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats.
The manager K. Choi was unhappy after their last game, a Super League match played at their home ground Hongkou Stadium. Shanghai suffered a 1-2 loss to Changchun Yatai (placed 2nd). Matej Jonjić, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 8.81. Jonjić scored one goal and won 5 of 6 duels.
Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against Hebei CFFC.After this away game Shanghai return home for a Super League game against Tianjin Teda. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Shanghai find the net regularly in their away games. 7 goals from 5 away fixtures in the league. 5 goals have been conceded by Shanghai in these games.
Head 2 Head
The most recent history between these sides is the Shanghai Shenhua - Dalian Professional 3-2 played earlier this season. Dalian Professional-Shanghai Shenhua H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Professional two wins, Shanghai Shenhua six wins, two draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  M. Danielsson 2 goals | L. Lin 2 goals |   A. Mierzejewski 2 goals |
Dalian Professional missing players
Shanghai Shenhua missing players
| Dalian Professional | Shanghai Shenhua | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Scored | S | 6 | 7 | 14 |
| 20 | 10 | 2 | Conceded | C | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 82% |
| 64% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 60% | 64% |
| 45% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 40% | 45% |
| 27% | 17% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 40% | 27% |
| 18% | 17% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 9% |
| 36% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 60% | 64% |
| 9% | 17% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 18% |
| 55% | 50% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 40% | 36% |
| 4.5 | 5 | 5.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 8 | 7.2 | 6.2 |
| 4.9 | 4.8 | 5.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 3.2 | 4.1 |
| 1.5 | 1.2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.6 | 2.1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | 10.2 | 8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 17.4 | 16.3 |
| 2.1 | 2.3 | 0.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 6.2 | 5.9 |
| 35% | 21% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 23% | 22% |
- Dalian Professional have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Dalian Professional have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Super League
- Dalian Professional have the fewest scored goals (3) at home in Super League
- Dalian Professional have the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Super League
- Dalian Professional have the most conceded goals in the second half (13) in Super League
- Dalian Professional haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Shanghai Shenhua have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Shanghai Shenhua have scored at least twice as many goals away as Dalian Professional have scored home.
- Shanghai Shenhua have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded away.
- Shanghai Shenhua 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 | Shanghai SIPG | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 22 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 16 | 22 |
| 2 | Changchun Yatai | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 22 |
| 3 | Hebei CFFC | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 19 |
| 4 | Beijing Guoan | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 18 |
| 5 | Shanghai Shenhua | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 16 |
| 6 | Wuhan Zall | 11 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -6 | 7 |
| 7 | Dalian Professional | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 10 | -12 | 7 |
| 8 | Tianjin Teda | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -14 | 6 |
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