This match features two teams living in the basement of the Super League, Guangzhou R&F holding 7th place and Henan Jianye lying 8th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.
These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Super League. That game was an away game at Guangzhou Evergrande, so at least Guangzhou are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
These teams have little in common geographically as Henan Jianye have to travel 1400 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Guangzhou R&F form and stats
Guangzhou R&F are yet to produce one single Super League point here at Jinzhou Stadium, to the disappointment of their supporters. All 4 matches have been lost. It's been an uphill battle for Guangzhou in their home games for quite some time now, as four matches in a row are lost here. Not since the Guangzhou Evergrande game have they avoided the disappointment of defeat. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Guangzhou to get some points in this home game.
Guangzhou R&F lost their last game at Guangzhou Evergrande (placed 1st) after a 1-2 scoreline. Preceding that match was the home game against Shenzhen that was lost 0-2.
Heartbreak for Guangzhou in their last match as Guangzhou Evergrande's Paulinho scored the winning goal deep into overtime.
This is expected to be a close game, with Guangzhou R&F perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Guangzhou as a small favourite), we find four games. Guangzhou R&F has won one of these, drawn two and lost one.
Guangzhou has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: 1 goal from 4 games. Guangzhou's defense is seriously deficient as 14 goals have been conceded in these matches.
Henan Jianye form and stats
The visitors, who have the most conceded goals (9) away in Super League, are W1-D1-L2 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 Jianye have lost on their last two travels.
The manager J. Yang was unhappy after their last game, a Super League match played at their home ground Zhengzhou Hanghai Stadium. Jianye suffered a 0-4 loss to Dalian Professional (placed 6th). Preceding that game, the 2-5 loss visiting Jiangsu Suning's place.
Jianye 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.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found two similar matches played by Henan Jianye in our archives, and the results are: one win for Henan Jianye, one draw and zero defeats.
The travelling fans enjoy Henan Jianye's attacking play in away games, having scored 6 goals in 4 league matches away. The Jianye manager J. Yang has some worries about the defense as 9 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: Henan Jianye - Guangzhou R&F 1-1. Guangzhou-Henan Jianye H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Guangzhou R&F three wins, Henan Jianye four wins, three draws. one of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  E. Zahavi 28 goals |  D. Saba 13 goals |   F. Ohandza Zoa 10 goals |
Guangzhou R&F missing players
Henan Jianye missing players
| Guangzhou R&F | Henan Jianye | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 4 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 7 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 6 | 11 |
| 22 | 14 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 9 | 21 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 89% |
| 89% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 89% |
| 56% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 75% | 67% |
| 33% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 44% |
| 33% | 50% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 25% | 22% |
| 44% | 25% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 78% |
| 11% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 11% |
| 44% | 75% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 22% |
| 3.8 | 4 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 3.8 | 4.4 |
| 4.8 | 4.8 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| 2.3 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 2.2 | 2.6 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 106 | 54 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 12 | 35 | 92 |
| 33 | 12 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 5 | 15 | 29 |
| 21% | 8% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 40% | 38% |
- All of Guangzhou R&F's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Henan Jianye's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Guangzhou R&F has the fewest points (0) at home
- Guangzhou R&F has the fewest scored goals (1) at home
- Guangzhou R&F has the fewest scored goals (7)
- Guangzhou R&F has the fewest scored goals in the second half (3)
- Guangzhou R&F has the most conceded goals (14) at home
- Guangzhou R&F has the most conceded goals (22)
- Guangzhou R&F has the most conceded goals in the first half (12)
- Guangzhou R&F has the the worst goal difference (-13) at home
- Guangzhou R&F has the the worst goal difference (-15)
- Guangzhou R&F have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Guangzhou R&F have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Guangzhou R&F have lost all their home matches so far.
- Guangzhou R&F haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Henan Jianye has the fewest clean sheets (0) away
- Henan Jianye has the most conceded goals (9) away
- Henan Jianye has the most conceded goals in the second half (13)
- Henan Jianye has the the worst goal difference (-3) away
- Henan Jianye have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Henan Jianye have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Henan Jianye have scored at least twice as many goals away as Guangzhou R&F have scored home.
- Henan Jianye have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Henan Jianye haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Henan Jianye is in the worst form (1-1-4)
| 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 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 15 | 22 |
| 2 | Jiangsu Suning | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 17 |
| 3 | Shandong Luneng | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 16 |
| 4 | Shanghai Shenhua | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -3 | 12 |
| 5 | Shenzhen | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 11 |
| 6 | Dalian Professional | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 9 |
| 7 | Guangzhou R&F | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -15 | 7 |
| 8 | Henan Jianye | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | -10 | 6 |
- South China Morning Post - News (in English)