With the tense opening match out of the way it’s time for the second Super League meeting of the season. Guangzhou Evergrande eagerly anticipate Hebei CFFC in front of their home support.
- Guangzhou Evergrande have not yet lost a game at home.
- Guangzhou Evergrande have scored more than double the goals of Hebei CFFC.
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Hebei CFFC, who are travelling more than 2100 kilometers to play this game.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Evergrande and Hebei CFFC.
Guangzhou Evergrande form and stats
In the previous season, Guangzhou Evergrande's league statistics were 11 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses, results that produced 1st place in the Super League. From these 14 matches they scored 31 goals and conceded 12. Playing at their own stadium in the former season Guangzhou Evergrande managed 6-0-1 (win-draw-lost) with 11 goals and 4 conceded. Guangzhou Evergrande has won so many consecutive home games (six in a row) that they struggle to remember the last time points were lost here at Tianhe Stadium. We remember; it was Guangzhou R&F.
Evergrande faced defeat in their previous match, away at Beijing Guoan (0-1). Defender Wu got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 8.25/10. Wu won 6 of 8 duels.
Before that game, the home loss against Qingdao Youth Island with the scoreline 0-1.The manager Cannavaro will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Changchun Yatai in only three days.
Hebei CFFC form and stats
Let's have a look at how Hebei CFFC performed last season in the Super League: They landed a 4th position in the league table after playing out 7 victories, 3 draws and 4 defeats. In total they scored 25 and conceded 23 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 3 - drew 0 and lost 4 with 8/14 goals scored/conceded.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Super League home defeat versus Shandong Luneng with 0-5 on the scoreboard. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Shandong Luneng was particularly ugly (0-5). The humiliation is still top of mind. Cui was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.01. The defender Cui hit one key pass and won 9 of 13 duels.
The game before that, in the FA Cup, was lost at home, a 0-1 defeat against Shaanxi Chang'an.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Hebei manager Kim as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Shenzhen.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Evergrande eight wins, one draw and Hebei CFFC one victory. As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  E. de Oliveira Cardoso 11 goals |  R. Goulart Pereira 7 goals |  S. Wei 5 goals |
Guangzhou Evergrande missing players
Hebei CFFC missing players
| Guangzhou Evergrande | Hebei CFFC | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 15 |
| 9 | 6 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 39 | 21 | 4 | Scored | S | 1 | 4 | 12 |
| 15 | 6 | 2 | Conceded | C | 5 | 7 | 16 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 86% | 87% |
| 87% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 43% | 53% |
| 60% | 71% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 29% | 33% |
| 47% | 57% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 33% | 29% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 53% | 57% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 29% | 40% |
| 33% | 43% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 43% | 40% |
| 13% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 43% | 33% |
| 5.5 | 6.3 | 7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 4.3 | 4.5 |
| 3.3 | 2.6 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4.6 | 5.7 |
| 2.2 | 1.6 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 1.7 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 15.4 | 12.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.5 | 10.4 | 9.9 |
| 5.7 | 5.1 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 3 | 3.5 |
| 46% | 58% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 11% | 19% | 23% |
| 8.8 | 8.4 | 12 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 10.9 | 13.9 |
| 2.7 | 2.6 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 7 | 3.7 | 4.2 |
- All of Guangzhou Evergrande's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- 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 scored in all their home matches so far.
- Guangzhou Evergrande have scored more than double the goals of Hebei CFFC.
- Guangzhou Evergrande have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Guangzhou Evergrande 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 | Shandong Luneng | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 36 |
| 2 | Shanghai SIPG | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 31 |
| 3 | Changchun Yatai | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 31 |
| 4 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 30 |
| 5 | Beijing Guoan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 27 |
| 6 | Shenzhen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 24 |
| 7 | Hebei CFFC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 23 |
| 8 | Guangzhou R&F | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 21 |