Huitang Stadium: Get ready for a football festivity when Meizhou Hakka welcome Shanghai SIPG. Get the latest news on the game here!
- Meizhou Hakka have the most points from losing position (7) in Super League
- Shanghai SIPG have the most scored goals in the second half (8) in Super League
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Shanghai SIPG, who are travelling more than 1100 kilometers to play this game.
This promises to be an engaging game with lots of fun and bustle as both participants are well revitalized since they last played a game. Let's start!
Meizhou Hakka form and stats
Meizhou Hakka have played three Super League home games so far, perhaps enough to set expectations for the season. In that case, only 3 points from these matches could be a signal of rough times ahead.
In their previous game, the manager Ristić led his Meizhou Hakka to a defeat away at Qingdao Jonoon. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Huitang Stadium. The first loss after going unbeaten through three league fixtures. Cheng had a busy but productive day in the Qingdao Jonoon match. Despite making six saves the loss could not be prevented. Henrique (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.64/10. Henrique hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 6 of 7 times and had 36 successful passes (of 44 total).
A strong away win before that one, visiting Changchun Yatai and winning 4-2.There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Meizhou Hakka, as the Super League home game vs Tianjin Teda is only four days away.
Meizhou's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 4 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Shanghai SIPG form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most points (10) away in Super League, on their Super League travels is 3 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats.
Two travels in a row for Shanghai SIPG, whose coach Mejía could celebrate last time after the win against Hangzhou. Attacker Lei got a player rating of 8.23 in the game. "Man of the match" Lei scored two goals, hit the woodwork once and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Before that, Shanghai SIPG secured a home win against Qingdao Jonoon with the score 2-1.After this away game Shanghai SIPG return home for a Super League game against Henan Jianye. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Shanghai have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 4 league away games 5 goals have been scored. Shanghai SIPG's manager Mejía has created a great defensive setup working very nicely in away games with only {1 conceded goals}. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last two matches): Meizhou Hakka zero wins, zero draws and Shanghai SIPG two victories. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one game had two or less. Lei likes to play against Meizhou and have scored 3 goals in these games.
Top Goalscorers
  L. Wu 5 goals |   C. Ye 2 goals |  C. Yang 2 goals |
Meizhou Hakka missing players
Shanghai SIPG missing players
| Meizhou Hakka | Shanghai SIPG | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | 3 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 5 | 11 |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 75% | 86% |
| 86% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 50% | 71% |
| 43% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 25% | 43% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 71% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 25% | 57% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 75% | 43% |
| 29% | 33% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 14% |
| 4.4 | 4 | 7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.8 | 6.3 |
| 6.6 | 7 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.5 | 6.2 | 5 |
| 2.1 | 1.7 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10.9 | 10.7 | 6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.5 | 9.2 | 12.4 |
| 3.3 | 3.7 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 2.5 | 3.6 |
| 39% | 27% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 50% | 44% |
| 16.4 | 16.7 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.5 | 12 | 11.6 |
| 5.7 | 5.7 | 5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.2 | 3.6 |
- Meizhou Hakka have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Meizhou Hakka have the most points from losing position (7) in Super League
- Meizhou Hakka haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Shanghai SIPG have not yet lost a game.
- Shanghai SIPG have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Shanghai SIPG have the most clean sheets (3) away in Super League
- Shanghai SIPG have the most points (10) away in Super League
- Shanghai SIPG have the most scored goals in the second half (8) in Super League
- Shanghai SIPG have won significantly less corners away then 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 | Shanghai SIPG | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 17 |
| 2 | Shanghai Shenhua | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 17 |
| 3 | Chengdu Rongcheng | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 13 |
| 4 | Tianjin Teda | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | Changchun Yatai | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
| 6 | Wuhan Three Towns | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| 7 | Meizhou Hakka | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | -1 | 8 |
| 8 | Shandong Luneng | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -1 | 7 |
| 9 | Cangzhou Mighty Lions | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | -1 | 7 |
| 10 | Beijing Guoan | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 7 |
| 11 | Qingdao Jonoon | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -2 | 7 |
| 12 | Shenzhen | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -4 | 7 |
| 13 | Dalian Professional | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -2 | 6 |
| 14 | Nantong Zhiyun | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -2 | 5 |
| 15 | Henan Jianye | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -3 | 4 |
| 16 | Hangzhou | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -6 | 4 |
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