Very important battle in the lower section of the Super League, with both Nantong Zhiyun and Dalian Professional enduring more distress than happiness. This game is a real "six-pointer" with the home team positioned 13th and the guests in 16th place.
- Nantong Zhiyun have the fewest scored goals (11) in Super League
- Dalian Professional have yet to win a game away.
It's quite the trip for Dalian Professional when visiting Nantong as the cities are 900 kilometers apart.
The visiting Dalian Professional played their last game only four days ago, a Super League match. That game, against Shanghai SIPG, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Dalian Professional.
Nantong Zhiyun form and stats
2-2-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Super League numbers at home for Nantong Zhiyun so far this season. When Nantong Zhiyun hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Henan Jianye, Nantong Zhiyun, Meizhou Hakka, Shenzhen and Qingdao Jonoon), they have won 2 of 4 matches!
Nantong Zhiyun drew their last game, 1-1 away at Tianjin Teda (placed 4th). Defender Shinar got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.25/10. Shinar served one assist, hit one key pass and won 4 of 10 duels.
Before that, Nantong drew at home versus Meizhou Hakka.There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Nantong Zhiyun, as the Super League home game vs Shandong Luneng is only four days away.
Nantong Zhiyun have scored {6 league goals} here from 7 matches, not a lot. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Nantong defense is not exactly impregnable. 11 goals conceded from 7 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above. Nantong Zhiyun has at home met teams with this table position (low), four times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 3 of 4 times.
Dalian Professional form and stats
There's been little loot from Dalian Professional's travels as they have only collected 2 points from 7 away games in the Super League. Dalian Professional only have 0 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 2 draws. Professional has showed their ability to avoid defeat with four draws in a row, but are also dodging victories. They last avoided the draw 39 days ago, in the Shandong Luneng fixture.
It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Shanghai SIPG (placed 1st) in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 1-1. Attacker Mamba got a player rating of 7.43 in the game. "Man of the match" Mamba served one assist, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
A draw for Dalian Professional before that, at their own venue hosting Qingdao Jonoon (1-1).Low on goals? 10 of this side's last 13 league fixtures have had two goals or less.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Changchun Yatai in just four days.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Dalian Professional as they have only managed to score 4 times from 7 away games in the league. As opposed to that, Professional have seen the ball go into their own net 10 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The fixture lists shows this result when the squads met earlier this season; Dalian Professional - Nantong Zhiyun 2-1. Yan likes to face Nantong Zhiyun and have scored 2 goals in these encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  R. Castillo Álvarez 4 goals |  R. Baldé 3 goals |  S. Wang 1 goals |
Nantong Zhiyun missing players
Dalian Professional missing players
| Nantong Zhiyun | Dalian Professional | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 4 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 15 |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 11 | 6 | 5 | Scored | S | 1 | 4 | 12 |
| 21 | 11 | 3 | Conceded | C | 3 | 10 | 19 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 86% | 87% |
| 60% | 57% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 57% | 67% |
| 33% | 43% | 25% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 29% | 33% |
| 13% | 29% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 14% | 13% |
| 7% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 7% |
| 53% | 43% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 43% | 60% |
| 13% | 29% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 14% | 13% |
| 33% | 29% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 57% | 40% |
| 5.5 | 7.9 | 9.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.5 |
| 5.2 | 3.6 | 3.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 5.4 | 5.5 |
| 2.1 | 1.6 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.6 | 2.1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13.1 | 17.9 | 19.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 9.7 | 10.2 |
| 4.5 | 6.7 | 8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 3 | 3.2 |
| 16% | 13% | 16% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 11% | 19% | 25% |
| 13.6 | 10.9 | 8.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9 | 12.9 | 12.9 |
| 3.9 | 3.7 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.7 | 3.6 |
- Dalian Professional have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Dalian Professional have yet to win a game away.
- Nantong Zhiyun have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Nantong Zhiyun have the fewest scored goals (11) in Super League
- Nantong Zhiyun have the fewest scored goals (6) at home in Super League
- Nantong Zhiyun have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Nantong Zhiyun have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Nantong Zhiyun haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 25 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 13 | 34 |
| 2 | Shanghai Shenhua | 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 31 |
| 3 | Chengdu Qianbao | 15 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 23 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 27 |
| 4 | Tianjin Teda | 15 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 20 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 27 |
| 5 | Shandong Luneng | 15 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 23 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 25 |
| 6 | Beijing Guoan | 15 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 28 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 24 |
| 7 | Wuhan Three Towns | 15 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 24 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 9 | 23 |
| 8 | Changchun Yatai | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 28 | 27 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 1 | 23 |
| 9 | Hangzhou | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 21 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 18 |
| 10 | Shijiazhuang Ever Bright | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 24 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 13 | -6 | 17 |
| 11 | Henan Jianye | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -4 | 15 |
| 12 | Meizhou Hakka | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 27 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 16 | -7 | 13 |
| 13 | Nantong Zhiyun | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 21 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 10 | -10 | 11 |
| 14 | Shenzhen | 15 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 14 | 36 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 19 | -22 | 11 |
| 15 | Qingdao Jonoon | 15 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 13 | -7 | 10 |
| 16 | Dalian Professional | 15 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 10 | -7 | 10 |
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