Stumbling Dalian Professional will hope to pull off a surprise win when they play top team Shanghai SIPG in the upcoming league round. It’s 14th vs 6th and the home regulars will have moderate expectations.
- Dalian Professional have the most dropped points from leading position (8) in Super League
- Shanghai SIPG have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
These teams have little in common geographically as Shanghai SIPG have to travel 1000 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Dalian Professional form and stats
The story so far in the Super League for Dalian Professional at their home stadium (Aswan Stadium) is 0 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats.
Dalian Professional played out an unexpected loss 1-3 against Shandong Luneng in their previous game, also played at home. Defender Zhu got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.22/10. Zhu scored one goal, hit one key pass and won 4 of 5 duels.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Hangzhou (0-2).The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Professional here at Aswan Stadium in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (4 from 5 games). Dalian Professional are struggling defensively, conceding on average more than two goals per home game (11 from 5 played).
Shanghai SIPG form and stats
As the visiting team in Super League matches, Shanghai SIPG have produced an overall stat of 3-0-2 so far. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Shanghai SIPG, as they have won on their previous two travels.
Shanghai failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Wuhan Three Towns (placed 1st) that ended with defeat 0-1. That defeat was their first after four consecutive league matches winning points. Oscar got a match rating of 8.31 in that game, top player of the team. Oscar hit two key passes and had 88 successful passes (of 98 total).
Preceding that game was the away victory against Guangzhou Evergrande with the score of 1-0.Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Shanghai SIPG have scored 6 goals in 5 league games away.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Dalian Professional one win, two draws and Shanghai SIPG seven victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  P. Ndiaye 4 goals |   G. Sun 1 goals |  W. Lü 1 goals |
Dalian Professional missing players
Shanghai SIPG missing players
| Dalian Professional | Shanghai SIPG | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Scored | S | 3 | 6 | 10 |
| 19 | 11 | 5 | Conceded | C | 0 | 5 | 9 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 80% | 60% |
| 60% | 60% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 40% | 30% |
| 30% | 40% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 60% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 40% | 40% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 40% | 30% |
| 40% | 40% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 30% |
| 5.5 | 5.2 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 5.8 | 6.1 |
| 4.3 | 3.8 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 1 | 3.4 | 3 |
| 2.1 | 2.4 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0.6 | 1.1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12.1 | 12.6 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 10.4 | 11.2 |
| 2.8 | 2.4 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 2.8 | 3.1 |
| 36% | 33% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 43% | 32% |
| 10.2 | 10.8 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 5 | 11 | 10.2 |
| 3.6 | 4.4 | 6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0.5 | 3.2 | 3 |
- All of Dalian Professional's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Dalian Professional have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
- Dalian Professional have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Dalian Professional have the most dropped points from leading position (8) in Super League
- Dalian Professional have yet to win a game at home.
- Dalian Professional haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Shanghai SIPG have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Shanghai SIPG have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Shanghai SIPG 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 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 27 | 28 |
| 2 | Shandong Luneng | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 24 |
| 3 | Henan Jianye | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 23 |
| 4 | Shanghai Shenhua | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 21 |
| 5 | Beijing Guoan | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 16 |
| 6 | Shanghai SIPG | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 16 |
| 7 | Shenzhen | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 16 |
| 8 | Hangzhou | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 15 |
| 9 | Tianjin Teda | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 14 |
| 10 | Meizhou Hakka | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 14 |
| 11 | Wuhan Zall | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -7 | 13 |
| 12 | Chengdu Rongcheng | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 12 |
| 13 | Changchun Yatai | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 13 | -4 | 11 |
| 14 | Dalian Professional | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -9 | 7 |
| 15 | Shijiazhuang Ever Bright | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -9 | 7 |
| 16 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 10 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 11 | -11 | 6 |
| 17 | Guangzhou R&F | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 10 | -16 | 3 |
| 18 | Hebei CFFC | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 22 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 11 | -17 | 3 |
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