Season ticket holders at Jinzhou Stadium haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Guangzhou R&F languishing in the 6th position so far. The guesting Shenzhen will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.
These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Super League. Thankfully the previous game, versus Shandong Luneng, was also a home game here at Dalian University Stadium. The away team is better rested.
Guangzhou R&F form and stats
Guangzhou R&F have played three Super League home games so far, perhaps enough to set expectations for the season. In that case, only 0 points from these matches could be a signal of rough times ahead. With Guangzhou having lost three times in a row here, the pressure is increasing on the manager G. van Bronckhorst.
Guangzhou's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-5 versus Shandong Luneng (placed 2nd). In the game before, an away victory match versus Shanghai Shenhua with a 3-2 scoreline.
Guangzhou were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.
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 R&F as a small favourite), we find four games. Guangzhou 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 3 games. Guangzhou's defense is seriously deficient as 12 goals have been conceded in these matches.
Shenzhen form and stats
The Super League season is young and Shenzhen have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 3 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 2 defeats so far.
Shenzhen has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Jiangsu Suning for a Super League game that ended a draw (1-1). A home win before that, celebrating 3-2 vs Dalian Professional.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found five similar matches played by Shenzhen in our archives, and the results are: one win for Shenzhen, one draw and three defeats.
Shenzhen have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 3 league away games 3 goals have been scored. Shenzhen have conceded 6 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Shenzhen - Guangzhou 3-0 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Guangzhou R&F-Shenzhen H2H statistics last three meetings regardless of arena: Guangzhou one win, Shenzhen two wins, zero draws. three of these three matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  E. Zahavi 28 goals |  D. Saba 13 goals |  J. Mary Honi Uzuegbunam 9 goals |
Guangzhou R&F missing players
Shenzhen missing players
| Guangzhou R&F | Shenzhen | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 6 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 11 |
| 18 | 12 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 6 | 13 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 86% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 57% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 71% |
| 43% | 67% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 43% |
| 43% | 67% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 33% | 29% |
| 43% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 71% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 43% | 67% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 14% |
| 3.9 | 3.7 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 6 | 4.7 |
| 4.1 | 4.7 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 2.7 | 3 |
| 2.4 | 1.7 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.3 | 2.1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 85 | 39 | 5 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 37 | 79 |
| 26 | 7 | 2 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 9 | 22 |
| 23% | 14% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 33% | 50% |
- All of Guangzhou R&F's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Shenzhen's 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 (6)
- Guangzhou R&F has the fewest scored goals in the second half (2)
- Guangzhou R&F has the most conceded goals (12) at home
- Guangzhou R&F has the most conceded goals (18)
- Guangzhou R&F has the most conceded goals in the first half (11)
- Guangzhou R&F has the the worst goal difference (-11) at home
- Guangzhou R&F has the the worst goal difference (-12)
- Guangzhou R&F have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Guangzhou R&F have lost all their home matches so far.
- Guangzhou R&F haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Shenzhen has the the worst goal difference (-3) away
- Shenzhen have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded away.
- Shenzhen have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- Shenzhen have yet to win a game away.
- Shenzhen 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 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 11 | 16 |
| 2 | Shandong Luneng | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 16 |
| 3 | Jiangsu Suning | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 11 |
| 4 | Shanghai Shenhua | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 11 |
| 5 | Shenzhen | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -2 | 7 |
| 6 | Guangzhou R&F | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -12 | 7 |
| 7 | Henan Jianye | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | -3 | 6 |
| 8 | Dalian Professional | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -4 | 3 |
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