It's the second attempt for points this campaign as Shandong Luneng and Beijing Guoan battle it out.
- Shandong Luneng have not yet lost a game at home.
- Shandong Luneng have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Beijing Guoan have scored away.
It's no vacation for neither Shandong nor Beijing Guoan as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Shandong Luneng form and stats
The season before, Shandong Luneng's league results were 7 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses, results that produced 3rd spot in the Super League. In these 14 matches they scored 19 goals and let in 11. Performing at home in the former season Shandong Luneng managed 2-1-4 (win-draw-lost) with 5 goals and 6 conceded. The team is able to perform also as the away side, as they are nurturing a very healthy winning streak of six straight victories regardless of arena.
Shandong are returning here after visiting Hebei CFFC in a Super League game and winning with a 5-0 scoreline. Wu (2), Liu, Guo and Zheng scored the goal(s). As indicated by the result mentioned above, Shandong played a great game against Hebei CFFC and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one. The talented striker Guo outshone all others in that match and received a match rating of 8.63 out of 10. Guo scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Before that match, a FA Cup win away at Henan Jianye.There will be little rest for Shandong Luneng after this match as they are travelling to Shanghai SIPG for a Super League game in only three days.
Beijing Guoan form and stats
Let's have a look at how Beijing Guoan performed last season in the Super League: They landed a 2nd position in the league table after playing out 8 victories, 4 draws and 2 defeats. In total they scored 36 and conceded 19 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 2 - drew 4 and lost 1 with 15/13 goals scored/conceded.
Beijing Guoan are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the Super League against Guangzhou Evergrande (placed 4th). Midfielder Li was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.31. Li hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times.
A draw for Beijing before that, at their own venue hosting Sichuan (1-1).There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Beijing manager Bilić as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Guangzhou R&F.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: three - five - two (Shandong Luneng wins - draws - Beijing Guoan wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Fellaini-Bakkioui 9 goals |  T. Guo 9 goals |   Y. Zhang 7 goals |
Shandong Luneng missing players
Beijing Guoan missing players
| Shandong Luneng | Beijing Guoan | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 7 | 15 |
| 11 | 6 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| 35 | 14 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 6 | 20 |
| 10 | 4 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 10 | 16 |
| 93% | 86% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 86% | 87% |
| 87% | 71% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 71% | 73% |
| 53% | 43% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 43% | 47% |
| 40% | 29% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 29% | 20% |
| 20% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 47% | 43% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 43% | 53% |
| 53% | 57% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 43% | 40% |
| 7% | 14% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 29% | 20% |
| 5.7 | 5 | 7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 5.6 | 5.6 |
| 3.9 | 4.3 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 4.4 | 4.3 |
| 1.1 | 1.3 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.3 | 2.4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13.7 | 14.6 | 15 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 18 | 14 | 13.7 |
| 5.1 | 4.9 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 4.4 | 4.5 |
| 46% | 41% | 20% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 17% | 19% | 29% |
| 7.9 | 8.7 | 6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9 | 11.7 | 11 |
| 2.2 | 2.1 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.7 | 4.3 |
- Shandong Luneng have not yet lost a game at home.
- Shandong Luneng have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Shandong Luneng have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Beijing Guoan have scored 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 | Shandong Luneng | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 36 |
| 2 | Shanghai SIPG | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 31 |
| 3 | Changchun Yatai | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 31 |
| 4 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 30 |
| 5 | Beijing Guoan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 27 |
| 6 | Shenzhen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 24 |
| 7 | Hebei CFFC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 23 |
| 8 | Guangzhou R&F | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 21 |