This match features two teams living in the basement of the Super League, Henan Jianye holding 8th place and Guangzhou R&F lying 6th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Guangzhou R&F, who are travelling more than 1400 kilometers to play this game.
Henan Jianye form and stats
Henan Jianye's struggle is real here at Dalian University Stadium with only 2 points collected from 7 Super League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 0-2-5.
A good away victory last time out for Jianye, who won 2-1 against Guangzhou R&F. Before that, Jianye played out a draw 1-1 when visiting Wuhan Zall.
Jianye have scored 6 league goals here from 7 matches, not a lot. Jianye are struggling defensively, conceding on average more than two goals per home game (17 from 7 played).
Guangzhou R&F form and stats
The visitors are W2-D3-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Super League. It's three draws from Guangzhou R&F's last three away games, a decent catch but one that could be so much better.
Guangzhou failed to get anything from their last game, a Super League home match vs Henan Jianye that ended with defeat 1-2. A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Qingdao Hainiu.
Guangzhou R&F have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 7 league away games 9 goals have been scored. Guangzhou struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 11 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
The most recent history between these sides is the Guangzhou R&F - Jianye 1-2 played earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Jianye three wins, three draws and Guangzhou R&F four victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  E. Zahavi 28 goals |  D. Saba 13 goals |   F. Ohandza Zoa 10 goals |
Henan Jianye missing players
Guangzhou R&F missing players
| Henan Jianye | Guangzhou R&F | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 8 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 8 | 17 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 10 | 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 18 | 7 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 9 | 17 |
| 35 | 17 | 4 | Conceded | C | 0 | 11 | 31 |
| 94% | 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 75% | 88% |
| 88% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 62% | 76% |
| 59% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 53% |
| 35% | 50% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 29% |
| 12% | 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 25% | 24% |
| 71% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 47% |
| 12% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 38% | 24% |
| 24% | 38% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 38% | 41% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.5 | 2.6 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.4 | 2.2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 171 | 77 | 12 | Total Shots | T S | 11 | 74 | 169 |
| 57 | 21 | 2 | Shots on Target | S O | 3 | 28 | 56 |
| 32% | 33% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 32% | 30% |
- Henan Jianye has the fewest clean sheets (2) in Super League
- Henan Jianye has the fewest points (2) at home in Super League
- Henan Jianye has the fewest scored goals in the second half (7) in Super League
- Henan Jianye has the most conceded goals (33) in Super League
- Henan Jianye has the most conceded goals in the first half (21) in Super League
- Henan Jianye has the the worst goal difference (-19) in Super League
- Henan Jianye have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored 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 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 31 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 19 | 34 |
| 2 | Jiangsu Suning | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 23 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 26 |
| 3 | Shandong Luneng | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 8 | 24 |
| 4 | Shanghai Shenhua | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 21 |
| 5 | Shenzhen | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 20 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 17 |
| 6 | Guangzhou R&F | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 28 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 11 | -14 | 15 |
| 7 | Dalian Yifang | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 21 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 9 | -3 | 11 |
| 8 | Henan Jianye | 14 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 33 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 16 | -19 | 6 |
- South China Morning Post - News (in English)