Only victory will please the Henan Jianye fans in this Zhengzhou Hanghai Stadium duel with Guangzhou Evergrande, seeing as they have a solid lead on the away team in the Super League standings.
- Henan Jianye have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Guangzhou Evergrande have the the worst goal difference (-10) away in Super League
It's quite the trip for Guangzhou Evergrande when visiting Jianye as the cities are 1400 kilometers apart.
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Super League game only four days ago.
Henan Jianye form and stats
16 points is a decent return from 8 Super League games here at Zhengzhou Hanghai Stadium for Henan Jianye. The data says 5 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses. The Henan Jianye manager Mejía might feel some added pressure to get something from this game after two straight home defeats.
An away draw last time out for Henan Jianye, facing Wuhan Zall in a game that ended 2-2. Jianye salvaged the draw from a difficult situation against Wuhan Zall, trailing 0-2 at one point. Not giving up resulted in Zhong equalizing. Midfielder Mierzejewski was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.35 (out of ten) in that game. Mierzejewski signed up for two assists, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times and had 48 successful passes (of 54 total).
Preceding that match was the home game against Wuhan Three Towns that was lost 0-3.Henan Jianye can score goals in their home matches. After 8 league matches they have found the net 20 times. 11 goals have been conceded.
Guangzhou Evergrande form and stats
There's been little loot from Guangzhou Evergrande's travels as they have only collected 3 points from 6 away games in the Super League. Guangzhou Evergrande only have 1 win to counter their 5 defeats and 0 draws.
There were no winners in Guangzhou Evergrande's previous match, the home game that ended 0-0 vs Dalian Professional (placed 14th). Liu had red hot gloves after the game against Dalian Professional, shaping the outcome of the game with six saves made. Goalkeeper Liu got the top player rating of the team with 8.22/10. Liu topped it up with a clean sheet.
A home win before that, celebrating 4-1 vs Shenzhen.The schedule is very tough for Evergrande now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Super League game at Hangzhou is waiting in only four days.
There's been a serious shortage of goals from Guangzhou Evergrande's away games in the league this season with only 3 goals from 6 matches. It's worth mentioning that 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. For Evergrande, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net. Guangzhou Evergrande has visited these top teams two times, and 2 of 2 has ended with 2 goals or more!
Head 2 Head
Guangzhou Evergrande have pulled off a streak of 15 consecutive games without losing (12-3-0) when playing Henan Jianye.Top Goalscorers
  L. da Silva Monte 6 goals |  J. da Silva Dourado 5 goals | Z. Huang 4 goals |
Henan Jianye missing players
Guangzhou Evergrande missing players
| Henan Jianye | Guangzhou Evergrande | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 14 |
| 8 | 5 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 28 | 20 | 4 | Scored | S | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| 15 | 11 | 3 | Conceded | C | 8 | 13 | 21 |
| 93% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 93% |
| 79% | 88% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 50% |
| 64% | 88% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 43% |
| 36% | 50% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 17% | 14% |
| 14% | 25% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 17% | 14% |
| 43% | 62% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 33% | 36% |
| 36% | 12% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 17% | 21% |
| 29% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| 4.2 | 3.9 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 2.7 | 2.7 |
| 4.7 | 5 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 4.8 | 5.6 |
| 1.7 | 1.8 | 0.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 1.7 | 2.6 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 10.5 | 9.1 | 7.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.5 | 10.8 | 9.2 |
| 4.1 | 4.5 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 48% | 56% | 67% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 17% | 17% | 24% |
| 12.7 | 14.1 | 8.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 16.5 | 12 | 13.3 |
| 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 8.5 | 4.5 | 4.2 |
- Guangzhou Evergrande have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- Guangzhou Evergrande have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Guangzhou Evergrande have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Guangzhou Evergrande have the the worst goal difference (-10) away in Super League
- Guangzhou Evergrande haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Henan Jianye have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Henan Jianye have scored more than double the goals of Guangzhou Evergrande.
- Henan Jianye haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Wuhan Three Towns | 14 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 46 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 4 | 38 | 40 |
| 2 | Shandong Luneng | 14 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 31 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 22 | 36 |
| 3 | Henan Jianye | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 28 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 27 |
| 4 | Meizhou Hakka | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 23 |
| 5 | Shanghai Shenhua | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 23 |
| 6 | Beijing Guoan | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 17 | 1 | 22 |
| 7 | Shanghai SIPG | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 21 |
| 8 | Chengdu Rongcheng | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 21 |
| 9 | Hangzhou | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 20 |
| 10 | Tianjin Teda | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 21 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 19 |
| 11 | Wuhan Zall | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 20 | 26 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 11 | -6 | 17 |
| 12 | Changchun Yatai | 13 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 23 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 16 | 2 | 16 |
| 13 | Shenzhen | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 23 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 15 | -7 | 16 |
| 14 | Dalian Professional | 13 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -7 | 12 |
| 15 | Cangzhou Mighty Lions | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 12 | -11 | 11 |
| 16 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 14 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 21 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 13 | -11 | 10 |
| 17 | Guangzhou R&F | 14 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 9 | 35 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 13 | -26 | 3 |
| 18 | Hebei CFFC | 14 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 9 | 41 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 30 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 11 | -32 | 3 |
