It's still early in the Super League season, but we are learning more and more about the teams. Here is the Henan Jianye - Guangzhou R&F preview!
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
These teams have little in common geographically as Guangzhou R&F have to travel 1400 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Henan Jianye form and stats
The home fans saw their team lose the first Super League game of the season here at Dalian Sports Center. Last season these fans witnessed 9 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses from Henan Jianye's 15 home games.
Jianye manager J. Yang and his team return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Dalian Professional (placed 7th) in the Super League. Preceding that match was the home game against Jiangsu Suning that was lost 3-4.
At Dalian Sports Center, Henan Jianye has the goal stats of 3-4 (for/against) from 1 league fixture.
Guangzhou R&F form and stats
Guangzhou R&F have played one away game so far, a loss. Last season their away games stats in the Super League were 2 victories, 1 draw and 12 defeats from 15 fixtures.
Guangzhou have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 318 minutes ago. D. Saba was the goal scorer.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Super League home defeat versus Guangzhou Evergrande with 0-5 on the scoreboard. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Shenzhen wasn't a success with a 0-3 loss.
As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Guangzhou Evergrande was particularly ugly (0-5). The humiliation is still top of mind.
A new game in only four days for Guangzhou, the Super League home match versus Jiangsu Suning. Busy days.
Guangzhou R&F have the goal stats of 0-3 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
Jianye-Guangzhou R&F H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Henan Jianye five wins, Guangzhou R&F three wins, two draws. two 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 |
Henan Jianye missing players
Guangzhou R&F missing players
| Henan Jianye | Guangzhou R&F | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 4 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 5 | 4 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 3 | 4.5 |
| 3.5 | 3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 4 | 4.5 |
| 1.5 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 2.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | 9 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 9 | 26 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Henan Jianye | Last season | Guangzhou R&F | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 30 | 15 | Played | P | 15 | 30 | ||
| 11 | 9 | Won | W | 2 | 9 | ||
| 8 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | ||
| 11 | 4 | Lost | L | 12 | 16 | ||
| 41 | 23 | Scored | S | 22 | 54 | ||
| 46 | 18 | Conceded | C | 40 | 72 | ||
| 90% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 73% | 60% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 93% | 97% | ||
| 60% | 53% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 80% | 87% | ||
| 33% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 60% | 67% | ||
| 23% | 27% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 40% | 37% | ||
| 63% | 60% | BTTS | BTTS | 73% | 80% | ||
| 23% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 3% | ||
| 23% | 13% | Failed to Score | F T | 27% | 17% | ||
| 5 | 5.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 3.8 | ||
| 5.5 | 5.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.9 | 5.8 | ||
| 1.9 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.3 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 5 | 5 | ||
| 342 | 184 | Total Shots | T S | 197 | 420 | ||
| 125 | 74 | Shots on Target | S O | 64 | 146 | ||
| 33% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 34% | 37% | ||
| 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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 6 |
| 2 | Jiangsu Suning | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | Shandong Luneng | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | Shenzhen | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Shanghai Shenhua | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -1 | 3 |
| 6 | Henan Jianye | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 7 | Dalian Professional | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 |
| 8 | Guangzhou R&F | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -8 | 0 |
| Last season | 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 | 30 | 23 | 3 | 4 | 68 | 24 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 10 | 15 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 40 | 14 | 44 | 72 |
| 2 | Beijing Guoan | 30 | 23 | 1 | 6 | 60 | 26 | 15 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 37 | 16 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 23 | 10 | 34 | 70 |
| 3 | Shanghai SIPG | 30 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 62 | 26 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 38 | 13 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 24 | 13 | 36 | 66 |
| 4 | Jiangsu Suning | 30 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 60 | 41 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 34 | 14 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 26 | 27 | 19 | 53 |
| 5 | Shandong Luneng | 30 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 55 | 35 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 29 | 13 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 26 | 22 | 20 | 51 |
| 6 | Wuhan Zall | 30 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 41 | 41 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 16 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 22 | 25 | 0 | 44 |
| 7 | Tianjin Teda | 30 | 12 | 5 | 13 | 43 | 45 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 26 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 17 | 27 | -2 | 41 |
| 8 | Henan Jianye | 30 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 41 | 46 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 18 | 15 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 18 | 28 | -5 | 41 |
| 9 | Dalian Professional | 30 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 44 | 51 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 23 | 20 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 21 | 31 | -7 | 38 |
| 10 | Chongqing Dangdai Lifan | 30 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 36 | 47 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 18 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 21 | 29 | -11 | 36 |
| 11 | Hebei CFFC | 30 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 37 | 55 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 21 | 23 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 16 | 32 | -18 | 33 |
| 12 | Guangzhou R&F | 30 | 9 | 5 | 16 | 54 | 72 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 32 | 32 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 22 | 40 | -18 | 32 |
| 13 | Shanghai Shenhua | 30 | 8 | 6 | 16 | 43 | 57 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 25 | 33 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 24 | -14 | 30 |
| 14 | Tianjin Quanjian | 30 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 40 | 53 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 25 | 26 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 27 | -13 | 25 |
| 15 | Shenzhen | 30 | 4 | 9 | 17 | 31 | 57 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 24 | 23 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 34 | -26 | 21 |
| 16 | Beijing Renhe | 30 | 3 | 5 | 22 | 26 | 65 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 17 | 32 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 33 | -39 | 14 |
- South China Morning Post - News (in English)