With their 11 point advantage in the league table, Guangzhou Evergrande fans are hoping to see their team collect maximum points from this game against Shijiazhuang Ever Bright.
- Guangzhou Evergrande have the most scored goals (22) in Super League
- Shijiazhuang Ever Bright have the most dropped points from leading position (10) in Super League
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 quite the trip for Shijiazhuang Ever Bright when visiting Evergrande as the cities are 1800 kilometers apart.
Guangzhou Evergrande form and stats
Overall Super League stats at home this season for Guangzhou Evergrande, who have the most scored goals (22) in Super League, are 3-1-0 (wins-draw-losses). Evergrande are on a three game winning streak in their home games.
In their previous game, the manager F. Cannavaro led his Evergrande to a defeat in the Super League match away at Shenzhen. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Tianhe Stadium. Elkeson, who plays in attack, was the top performer for the team in that game, scoring a rating of 8.43 (out of 10). Elkeson scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, hit two key passes and had 27 successful passes (of 31 total).
Before that, Evergrande had a home game versus Shandong Luneng which ended with a victory 2-1.Evergrande are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found ten matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won nine, drew one and lost zero.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Henan Jianye are coming to town in three days.
With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (9 in 4 games), Evergrande's attacking play is working. Evergrande have conceded 4 in these home matches.
Shijiazhuang Ever Bright form and stats
The visitors are W0-D2-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Super League. The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Shijiazhuang Ever Bright have lost on their last two travels.
There were no winners in Shijiazhuang's previous match, a Super League home game that ended 1-1 vs Chongqing Dangdai Lifan (placed 6th). Midfield player Pengfei Xie was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.4/10. Xie scored one goal and hit two key passes.
It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Henan Jianye wasn't a success with a 1-2 loss.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Shijiazhuang played away with similar odds. This revealed one game. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, one were draw and the home team won as expected zero times.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Guangzhou R&F in just three days.
Shijiazhuang Ever Bright have scored 5 goals on their travels this season, from 5 away games in the league. In the opposite end, Shijiazhuang Ever Bright have conceded 8 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Shijiazhuang Ever Bright - Evergrande 0-2 entered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last three matches): Evergrande two wins, one draw and Shijiazhuang Ever Bright zero victories. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  E. de Oliveira Cardoso 7 goals |  L. Yang 4 goals | Z. Gao 2 goals |
Guangzhou Evergrande missing players
Shijiazhuang Ever Bright missing players
| Guangzhou Evergrande | Shijiazhuang Ever Bright | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 22 | 9 | 3 | Scored | S | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| 11 | 4 | 1 | Conceded | C | 2 | 8 | 13 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 80% | 80% |
| 90% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 80% | 80% |
| 60% | 75% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 80% | 40% |
| 40% | 50% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 10% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 60% | 75% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 80% | 50% |
| 30% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 20% | 30% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 20% | 40% |
| 6.4 | 6.5 | 8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 3.2 | 3.1 |
| 3.3 | 3.2 | 1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 4.6 | 4.3 |
| 2.6 | 1.8 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.2 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14.1 | 13.8 | 14 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.5 | 10.4 | 9.2 |
| 5.5 | 4.5 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 2.8 | 2.6 |
| 40% | 50% | 75% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 36% | 31% |
- All of Guangzhou Evergrande's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Guangzhou Evergrande have created more than twice as many corners as Shijiazhuang Ever Bright.
- 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 at home.
- Guangzhou Evergrande have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Guangzhou Evergrande have scored more than double the goals of Shijiazhuang Ever Bright.
- Guangzhou Evergrande have the most scored goals (22) in Super League
- Guangzhou Evergrande have the most scored goals in the first half (14) in Super League
- Guangzhou Evergrande have the the best goal difference (+11) in Super League
- Guangzhou Evergrande haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Shijiazhuang Ever Bright have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Shijiazhuang Ever Bright have the fewest scored goals in the second half (2) in Super League
- Shijiazhuang Ever Bright have the most dropped points from leading position (10) in Super League
- Shijiazhuang Ever Bright have yet to win a 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 | Shandong Luneng | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 21 |
| 2 | Shenzhen | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 21 |
| 3 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 11 | 18 |
| 4 | Guangzhou R&F | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | -1 | 14 |
| 5 | Henan Jianye | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -1 | 11 |
| 6 | Chongqing Dangdai Lifan | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 11 | -7 | 8 |
| 7 | Shijiazhuang Ever Bright | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -5 | 7 |
| 8 | Qingdao Hainiu | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 22 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 10 | -16 | 7 |