An important duel in the bottom section of the Super League, with both Dalian Professional and Shijiazhuang Ever Bright experiencing more worry than joy. This match is a classic "six-pointer" with the home team placed 7th and the visitors in 6th place.
These teams have little in common geographically as Shijiazhuang Ever Bright have to travel 1100 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Dalian Professional form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Super League this season. Dalian Professional, who have the fewest clean sheets (0) at home in Super League, have only managed 0 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses from their games here. With seven home Super League games in a row without a win, the Professional fans could feel they are not getting value for their money. It remains to be seen whether this unfortunate streak, which started after the Shandong Luneng game long ago, can be stopped today. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Professional to get some points in this home game.
In their previous game, the manager R. Benítez Maudes led his Professional to a defeat in the Super League match away at Guangzhou Evergrande. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here. Preceding that match was a defeat to Shenzhen (1-3).
Professional has scored 8 league goals at home this season, in 7 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 12 goals have been conceded.
Shijiazhuang Ever Bright form and stats
Shijiazhuang Ever Bright have only collected 6 points from their away games in the Super League, after 1-3-3 (7 played). It's a growing despair in Shijiazhuang as they have recorded three consecutive losses.
Shijiazhuang are travelling again after losing away to Beijing Guoan in their previous match (0-4). A loss against Chongqing Dangdai Lifan was the result prior to that, in a home game.
Shijiazhuang Ever Bright lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one.
The visitors have scored 6 goals from 7 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Shijiazhuang have conceded 11 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last two meetings): Professional won zero games, two matches ended with a draw and Shijiazhuang Ever Bright has zero wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: two / zeroTop Goalscorers
  L. da Conceição Silva 20 goals |  M. Nascimento 13 goals |
Dalian Professional missing players
Shijiazhuang Ever Bright missing players
| Dalian Professional | Shijiazhuang Ever Bright | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 0 | 7 | 14 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 18 | 8 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 6 | 18 |
| 21 | 12 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 11 | 21 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 71% | 86% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 71% | 71% |
| 50% | 43% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 43% | 57% |
| 43% | 43% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 29% | 43% |
| 14% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 64% | 86% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 57% | 57% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 14% | 21% |
| 21% | 14% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 29% | 21% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.1 | 1.6 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.7 | 2.1 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 182 | 96 | 26 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 63 | 129 |
| 64 | 35 | 13 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 23 | 47 |
| 28% | 23% | 8% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 26% | 38% |
- Dalian Professional has the fewest clean sheets (0) at home in Super League
- Dalian Professional has the fewest scored goals in the first half (7) in Super League
- Dalian Professional has the most conceded goals in the second half (15) in Super League
- Dalian Professional has the most dropped points from leading position (11) in Super League
- Dalian Professional have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Dalian Professional have yet to win a game at home.
- Dalian Professional haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Shijiazhuang Ever Bright has the fewest scored goals in the first half (7) in Super League
- Shijiazhuang Ever Bright has the most matches over the total-line (8) in Super League
- Shijiazhuang Ever Bright 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 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 31 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 19 | 34 |
| 2 | Jiangsu Suning | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 23 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 26 |
| 3 | Shandong Luneng | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 8 | 24 |
| 4 | Shanghai Shenhua | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 21 |
| 5 | Shenzhen | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 20 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 17 |
| 6 | Guangzhou R&F | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 28 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 11 | -14 | 15 |
| 7 | Dalian Professional | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 21 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 9 | -3 | 11 |
| 8 | Henan Jianye | 14 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 33 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 16 | -19 | 6 |
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