Take hard look at their own playing style or look more at the opposition? Both Nantong Zhiyun and Meizhou Hakka have to try something separate than earlier. Read more!
- Nantong Zhiyun have the fewest scored goals (8) in Super League
- Meizhou Hakka have the most dropped points from leading position (13) in Super League
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1300 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Nantong Zhiyun form and stats
2 victories, 1 draw and 3 defeats. That’s what Nantong Zhiyun have to build on here at Rugao Olympic Sports Center Stadium in the Super League. When Nantong Zhiyun hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Cangzhou Mighty Lions, Nantong Zhiyun, Shenzhen, Qingdao Jonoon and Dalian Professional), they have won 1 of 2 matches!
The regulars are hoping that Nantong will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the match against Shanghai Shenhua (placed 2nd). Shi had a busy but productive day in the Shanghai Shenhua match. Despite making six saves the loss could not be prevented.
Before that, a fine away victory at Heilongjiang Lava Spring. A FA Cup game.
Not much happening? Looking at this team's last 12 league matches, 9 have seen two goals or less.
Nantong Zhiyun have scored {4 league goals} here from 6 matches, not a lot. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Nantong Zhiyun defense is not exactly impregnable. 9 goals conceded from 6 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above. Nantong Zhiyun has at home met teams with this table position (low), two times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 2 of 2 times.
Meizhou Hakka form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Meizhou Hakka so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 1-2-4 (win-draw-lose). It's all red in the travel logs of Meizhou, having lost four matches in a row as the visiting team.
Meizhou Hakka are travelling again after losing away to Hangzhou in their previous match (0-3). Ye got a match rating of 7.4 in that game, top player of the team. Ye hit five key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Before that match, 1-1 away against Suzhou Dongwu (after extra-time, 2-4 on penalties) in the FA Cup. As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 5 similar matches played by Meizhou Hakka in our archives, and the results are: 0 wins for Meizhou Hakka, 2 draws and 3 defeats.
Meizhou are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 9 away goals from 7 games (in the league).
Head 2 Head
Meizhou Hakka have put together a streak of 4 consecutive games without losing (3-1-0) when facing Nantong Zhiyun.The matches between these sides sometimes lean towards being a bit wild, having seen 2 sending-offs from the last four duels.
Top Goalscorers
  R. Castillo Álvarez 4 goals |   C. Yang 3 goals |  R. Baldé 2 goals |
Nantong Zhiyun missing players
Meizhou Hakka missing players
| Nantong Zhiyun | Meizhou Hakka | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 7 | 13 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 8 | 4 | 2 | Scored | S | 3 | 9 | 15 |
| 18 | 9 | 1 | Conceded | C | 6 | 14 | 24 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 54% | 50% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 31% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 57% | 54% |
| 8% | 17% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 29% | 23% |
| 8% | 17% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 29% | 23% |
| 46% | 33% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 71% | 69% |
| 15% | 33% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 38% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 29% | 31% |
| 4.8 | 6.3 | 8.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.7 |
| 4.7 | 3.7 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.7 | 5 | 5.9 |
| 2.1 | 1.7 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 3.3 | 2.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12.7 | 16.5 | 18.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 10.1 | 10.1 |
| 4.4 | 6.5 | 8.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.7 | 3 | 3.2 |
| 14% | 10% | 12% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 60% | 43% | 37% |
| 13.9 | 11.5 | 10.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14.7 | 14.3 | 14.6 |
| 4 | 3.8 | 2.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 5.6 | 5.5 |
- All of Meizhou Hakka's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Meizhou Hakka have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Meizhou Hakka have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Meizhou Hakka have scored at least twice as many goals away as Nantong Zhiyun have scored home.
- Meizhou Hakka have the most conceded goals in the second half (16) in Super League
- Meizhou Hakka have the most dropped points from leading position (13) in Super League
- Meizhou Hakka haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Nantong Zhiyun have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Nantong Zhiyun have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Nantong Zhiyun have the fewest scored goals (4) at home in Super League
- Nantong Zhiyun have the fewest scored goals (8) in Super League
- Nantong Zhiyun have the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) in Super League
- Nantong Zhiyun have the the worst goal difference (-5) at home in Super League
- 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 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 12 | 29 |
| 2 | Shanghai Shenhua | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 28 |
| 3 | Chengdu Qianbao | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 19 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 24 |
| 4 | Tianjin Teda | 13 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 17 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 23 |
| 5 | Changchun Yatai | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 20 |
| 6 | Shandong Luneng | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 18 |
| 7 | Beijing Guoan | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 21 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 18 |
| 8 | Hangzhou | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 18 |
| 9 | Wuhan Three Towns | 13 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 19 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 17 |
| 10 | Henan Jianye | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -1 | 15 |
| 11 | Cangzhou Mighty Lions | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 12 | -7 | 13 |
| 12 | Shenzhen | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 25 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 14 | -12 | 11 |
| 13 | Meizhou Hakka | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 24 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 14 | -9 | 9 |
| 14 | Nantong Zhiyun | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 9 | -10 | 9 |
| 15 | Qingdao Jonoon | 13 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 12 | -7 | 8 |
| 16 | Dalian Professional | 13 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | -7 | 8 |
- South China Morning Post - News (in English)
