eight rounds of fixtures have been played and Hebei CFFC are 9 points ahead of Tianjin Teda. What happens today?
- Hebei CFFC have not yet lost a game at home.
- Tianjin Teda have the most conceded goals (16) in Super League
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 Hebei and Tianjin Teda.
Hebei CFFC form and stats
Hebei CFFC have played 4 Super League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-2-0 (wins-draws-losses). Two home wins in a row for Hebei bring valid hopes of a third.
A nice win for Hebei last time playing, versus Dalian Professional. That was also a home game and the match ended 1-0 with Zhang Wei scoring for the victors. Goalkeeper Yaxiong Bao got the top rating on the team in that game; 7.8 out of ten. Bao stopped the opponent with three saves and topped it up with a clean sheet.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Shanghai SIPG (0-1).The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Hebei matches with similar probabilities have ended with three wins, zero draws and two defeats (from five games).
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Hebei as they are travelling to their away game against Shanghai Shenhua in the Super League. That match is three days after this one.
Hebei are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 5 goals in 4 games. Hebei CFFC have only conceded 3 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Tianjin Teda form and stats
The Super League season is young and Tianjin Teda have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 3 away games done and still no victory. 2 draws and 1 defeat so far.
Tianjin failed to get anything from their last game, a Super League home match vs Changchun Yatai (placed 2nd) that ended with defeat 1-4. Defender Jiarun Gao was the best team player with a rating of 6.84. Gao hit one key pass and won 2 of 6 duels.
A 1-3 loss hosting Shanghai Shenhua before that.Looking at the earlier recent performances of Tianjin Teda when being an outsider away as they are today, we find three matches with the visitors losing two times, drawing zero and winning one game.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Dalian Professional in just three days.
Tianjin are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed 0 goals from 3 away games. Tianjin are tighter than a frog's bottom, as only 1 away goal have been conceded so far.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Tianjin Teda - Hebei 0-1 entered in the official records. Hebei CFFC-Tianjin Teda H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Hebei CFFC seven wins, Tianjin Teda two wins, one draw. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  H. Yin 2 goals |   J. Iloki 2 goals |  Q. Wang 1 goals |
Hebei CFFC missing players
Tianjin Teda missing players
| Hebei CFFC | Tianjin Teda | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 4 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 8 | 5 | 2 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 1 | 16 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 33% | 75% |
| 50% | 75% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 25% | 25% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 38% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 50% | 75% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 38% | 25% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 67% | 25% |
| 12% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 5 | 5.2 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 4 | 3 |
| 6 | 7.2 | 6.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 6.3 | 5.2 |
| 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.3 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 10.2 | 9 | 8.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7 | 5.7 | 6.6 |
| 3.2 | 3.2 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 2 | 2.5 |
| 31% | 38% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 25% |
- Hebei CFFC have not yet lost a game at home.
- Hebei CFFC have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Tianjin Teda have scored away.
- Hebei CFFC have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Hebei CFFC haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Tianjin Teda have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Tianjin Teda have failed to score a single goal away.
- Tianjin Teda have the fewest conceded goals (1) away in Super League
- Tianjin Teda have the fewest scored goals (0) away in Super League
- Tianjin Teda have the most conceded goals (16) in Super League
- Tianjin Teda have the most conceded goals in the first half (8) in Super League
- Tianjin Teda have the the worst goal difference (-11) in Super League
- Tianjin Teda have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- Tianjin Teda 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 | Shanghai SIPG | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 16 |
| 2 | Changchun Yatai | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 15 |
| 3 | Shanghai Shenhua | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 15 |
| 4 | Hebei CFFC | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 14 |
| 5 | Beijing Guoan | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 11 |
| 6 | Wuhan Zall | 8 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -5 | 5 |
| 7 | Tianjin Teda | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -11 | 5 |
| 8 | Dalian Professional | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | -8 | 4 |
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