Nantong Zhiyun are aiming to blank out the league table before this match versus Wuhan Three Towns. Here's all you should know before the game!
- Nantong Zhiyun haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Wuhan Three Towns have not yet lost a game away.
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
Nantong Zhiyun have collected 4 points from their Super League home games so far after 1-1-2.
A draw after 90 minutes last time out for Nantong, who played 1-1 against Shenzhen. That match was also played at this venue (Rugao Olympic Sports Center Stadium). Midfielder Baldé was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.81 (out of ten) in that game. Baldé served one assist and hit three key passes.
Heartbreak before that as Nantong Zhiyun lost 0-1 at Beijing Guoan's place.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Nantong Zhiyun as they are travelling to their away game against Chengdu Rongcheng in the Super League. That match is four days after this one.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Nantong here at Rugao Olympic Sports Center Stadium in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (3 from 4 games).
Wuhan Three Towns form and stats
The visitors are W2-D2-L0 on the road this term. That's in the Super League. Wuhan Three Towns has showed their ability to avoid defeat with four draws in a row, but are also dodging victories. They last avoided the draw 24 days ago, in the Qingdao Jonoon fixture.
Wuhan Three Towns played 3-3 against Chengdu Rongcheng in their previous match. As you can tell from the result, the match against Chengdu Rongcheng was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today? As mentioned above, Wuhan drew the match against Chengdu Rongcheng. Manager Pineda brought on Ademilson to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked. Aziz, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.32. Aziz scored one goal and hit two key passes.
Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Shanghai Shenhua.The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Super League trip to Cangzhou Mighty Lions.
Wuhan Three Towns has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 7 goals from 4 games. It's not easy to score on Wuhan Three Towns as they have only conceded 3 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
As for the last two games between these two teams, there's zero Nantong victories, zero draws and two Wuhan Three Towns wins. Over/under statistics; one of these games ended with three goals or more, one match with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  R. Castillo Álvarez 3 goals |  R. Baldé 2 goals |   A. Braga Bispo Junior 2 goals |
Nantong Zhiyun missing players
Wuhan Three Towns missing players
| Nantong Zhiyun | Wuhan Three Towns | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 7 | 11 |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Conceded | C | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 88% |
| 62% | 50% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 88% |
| 25% | 25% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 38% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 62% | 50% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 75% | 62% |
| 12% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 25% |
| 25% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 5 | 5.2 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 3.5 | 4.2 |
| 4.2 | 3.2 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 1 | 2.2 | 3.8 |
| 1.9 | 1.8 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14.8 | 17.8 | 21 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 16 | 14.5 | 15.2 |
| 5.4 | 7.5 | 10 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 5.5 | 5.4 |
| 14% | 10% | 10% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 32% | 26% |
| 13.6 | 10.2 | 13 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12 | 11 | 11.4 |
| 3.2 | 2.5 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.5 | 4.1 |
- All of Wuhan Three Towns's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Nantong Zhiyun haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Wuhan Three Towns have not yet lost a game away.
- Wuhan Three Towns have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Wuhan Three Towns have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
- Wuhan Three Towns have scored at least twice as many goals away as Nantong Zhiyun have scored home.
- Wuhan Three Towns have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Wuhan Three Towns have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Wuhan Three Towns haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| 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 Shenhua | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 18 |
| 2 | Shanghai SIPG | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 17 |
| 3 | Chengdu Rongcheng | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 14 |
| 4 | Changchun Yatai | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 14 |
| 5 | Tianjin Teda | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 |
| 6 | Wuhan Three Towns | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| 7 | Beijing Guoan | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 11 |
| 8 | Meizhou Hakka | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | -1 | 8 |
| 9 | Qingdao Jonoon | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -2 | 8 |
| 10 | Shenzhen | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -4 | 8 |
| 11 | Shandong Luneng | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -1 | 7 |
| 12 | Cangzhou Mighty Lions | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | -3 | 7 |
| 13 | Dalian Yifang | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -2 | 6 |
| 14 | Nantong Zhiyun | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -3 | 6 |
| 15 | Hangzhou | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | -6 | 5 |
| 16 | Henan Jianye | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -3 | 4 |
- South China Morning Post - News (in English)
