Super League: The mid-table spots illustrates the road Guangzhou Evergrande and Changchun Yatai have undertaken so far. Both teams are set to play; bring it on!
- Guangzhou Evergrande have the fewest conceded goals (2) in Super League
- Changchun Yatai have the most dropped points from leading position (10) in Super League
It's quite the trip for Changchun Yatai when visiting Evergrande as the cities are 3000 kilometers apart.
It's no vacation for neither Evergrande nor Changchun Yatai as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Guangzhou Evergrande form and stats
Guangzhou Evergrande have secured 5 points from their first three home games in the Super League. A decent catch, still with room for improvement. The Guangzhou Evergrande fans aren't used to losing league-games here and will expect new points from this game. Evergrande has played ten games in a row here without a defeat.
Nothing to worry about in defence for Evergrande, as their goalkeeper Dianzuo Liu has completely shut out the opponents for 369 minutes in the Super League.
A strong away win for Evergrande against Hebei CFFC the last match, as Tan and Jie were on target. Midfielder Liao was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.63 (out of ten) in that game. Liao hit two key passes and had 56 successful passes (of 60 total).
Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Beijing Guoan.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Evergrande have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found twelve games) they have won eight times, drawn two and lost two.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Evergrande as they are travelling to their away game against Shanghai SIPG in the Super League. That match is three days after this one.
Guangzhou Evergrande have scored 2 league goals here from 3 matches, not a lot. As for guarding their own goal, Evergrande have only let in 1 goal at home.
Changchun Yatai form and stats
It's gone fairly well in the Super League away games so far for Changchun Yatai with six points collected from three matches.
Changchun play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Shenzhen (placed 5th). Sun was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 8.22. The defender Sun scored one goal and won 3 of 7 duels.
That result followed a home victory 2-1 versus Guangzhou R&F.Changchun are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is two wins, zero draws and two defeats. From a total of four matches.
After this away game Changchun return home for a Super League game against Shandong Luneng. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Changchun are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 4 away goals from 3 games (in the league). They concede less than a goal on average per away game (2 so far).
Head 2 Head
The previous head to head meeting ended Changchun Yatai - Guangzhou Evergrande 0-2, earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Guangzhou Evergrande seven wins, one draw and Changchun Yatai two victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  G. Figueiredo Pinto Júnior 14 goals |   E. de Oliveira Cardoso 11 goals |  R. Goulart Pereira 7 goals |
Guangzhou Evergrande missing players
Changchun Yatai missing players
| Guangzhou Evergrande | Changchun Yatai | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 10 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 10 | 20 |
| 12 | 7 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 45 | 23 | 2 | Scored | S | 1 | 16 | 30 |
| 16 | 7 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 11 | 17 |
| 95% | 90% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 90% | 85% |
| 80% | 80% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 80% | 75% |
| 45% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 70% | 55% |
| 35% | 40% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 15% |
| 25% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 10% | 5% |
| 45% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 70% | 55% |
| 45% | 50% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 30% | 40% |
| 15% | 10% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 10% | 20% |
| 5 | 5.7 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 1 | 4.1 | 3.7 |
| 3.4 | 3.2 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8 | 5.1 | 5.6 |
| 2 | 1.5 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.6 | 1.7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 14.2 | 13.8 | 9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6 | 11.7 | 11.2 |
| 5.1 | 4.3 | 1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 4.9 | 4.6 |
| 44% | 53% | 200% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 33% | 33% |
| 8.9 | 9.1 | 20 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 18 | 13.1 | 12.3 |
| 2.5 | 2.5 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 4.1 | 4 |
- Changchun Yatai have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Changchun Yatai have the most dropped points from leading position (10) in Super League
- Changchun Yatai have the most points from losing position (10) in Super League
- Guangzhou Evergrande have not yet lost a game at home.
- Guangzhou Evergrande have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Guangzhou Evergrande have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Guangzhou Evergrande have the fewest conceded goals (1) at home in Super League
- Guangzhou Evergrande have the fewest conceded goals (2) in Super League
- Guangzhou Evergrande have the most scored goals in the first half (26) in Super League
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Shandong Luneng | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 11 | 49 |
| 2 | Shanghai SIPG | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 41 |
| 3 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 41 |
| 4 | Changchun Yatai | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 38 |
| 5 | Shenzhen | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | -2 | 29 |
| 6 | Beijing Guoan | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | -6 | 29 |
| 7 | Guangzhou R&F | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 25 |
| 8 | Hebei CFFC | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | -12 | 25 |
