It's only round two of the Super League for these squads. and it's all to play for here at Suzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium as Qingdao Hainiu welcome Wuhan Zall. Check out this preview!
- Qingdao Hainiu have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Wuhan Zall have yet to win a game away.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Qingdao Hainiu and Wuhan Zall.
Qingdao Hainiu form and stats
In the previous season, Qingdao Hainiu's league results were 2 wins, 4 draws and 8 losses, providing 7th position in the Super League. Over these 14 matches they scored 15 goals and let in 27. Performing as the host team in the previous season Qingdao Hainiu generated 1-2-4 (win-draw-lost) with 8 goals and 13 conceded. All in all it has been a very rough period for Qingdao who hasn’t won a league-game in their last ten attempts. Their previous win was against Chongqing Dangdai Lifan, 214 days ago.
Jianrong was the last player to score a league goal for Qingdao Hainiu and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Qingdao Hainiu haven't scored in 467 minutes.
Qingdao lost their last game at Shanghai Shenhua (placed 1st) after a 0-3 scoreline. Shi had a busy but productive day in the Shanghai Shenhua match. Despite making seven saves the loss could not be prevented. Midfielder Zhou Junchen was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.63 (out of ten) in that game. Junchen hit one key pass.
Heartbreak before that as Qingdao lost 0-4 at Wuhan Zall's place.There will be little rest for Qingdao after this match as they are travelling to Tianjin Teda for a Super League game in only three days.
Wuhan Zall form and stats
Let's have a look at how Wuhan Zall performed last season in the Super League: They landed a 5th position in the league table after playing out 5 victories, 2 draws and 7 defeats. In total they scored 16 and conceded 16 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 1 - drew 1 and lost 5 with 5/8 goals scored/conceded. Wuhan Zall has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.
Wuhan had fun at their own home (Suzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium) last time out, beating Shijiazhuang Ever Bright 4-2. Yang, Lopes (2) and Huang scored. As you can tell from the result, the match against Shijiazhuang Ever Bright was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today? Junmin Hao got a match rating of 8.64 in that game, top player of the team. Hao signed up for two assists, hit three key passes and had 31 successful passes (of 38 total).
Preceding that, the 0-1 home loss versus Shandong Luneng.The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Henan Jianye in just three days.
Head 2 Head
Head to head data (for the previous ten meetings): Qingdao won two games, one match ended in a draw and Wuhan Zall have seven wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: six / fourTop Goalscorers
  J. Kouassi 5 goals |  A. Lopes de Souza 4 goals |   J. Zhu 2 goals |
Qingdao Hainiu missing players
Wuhan Zall missing players
| Qingdao Hainiu | Wuhan Zall | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 7 | 15 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 12 | 5 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 4 | 15 |
| 37 | 18 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 9 | 21 |
| 93% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 71% | 80% |
| 67% | 57% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 71% | 80% |
| 47% | 57% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 43% | 47% |
| 33% | 43% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 33% | 43% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 20% | 29% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 57% | 67% |
| 13% | 14% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 29% | 20% |
| 73% | 57% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 43% | 33% |
| 2.9 | 3.7 | 11 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 2.9 | 3.8 |
| 6.1 | 5 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2 | 6 | 4.9 |
| 1.9 | 1.7 | 4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.3 | 1.5 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8.3 | 8 | 16 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 8.9 | 9.3 |
| 2.9 | 2.7 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 2.7 | 2.9 |
| 14% | 21% | 20% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 21% | 34% |
| 14.2 | 13.7 | 10 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15 | 12.6 | 11.1 |
| 5.9 | 6.1 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 3.7 | 3.7 |
- Qingdao Hainiu have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- Qingdao Hainiu have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Qingdao Hainiu have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Qingdao Hainiu have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Qingdao Hainiu haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Wuhan Zall have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Wuhan Zall have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Wuhan Zall have scored more than double the goals of Qingdao Hainiu.
- Wuhan Zall have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Wuhan Zall have yet to win a 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | Henan Jianye | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 18 |
| 3 | Wuhan Zall | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14 |
| 4 | Chongqing Dangdai Lifan | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 12 |
| 5 | Dalian Yifang | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| 6 | Tianjin Teda | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 7 | Shijiazhuang Ever Bright | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 10 |
| 8 | Qingdao Hainiu | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 7 |
- South China Morning Post - News (in English)