Shandong Luneng should be favourites to win this home game against Chongqing Dangdai Lifan, if the league table is anything to judge by. Or are we in for a surprise?
- Shandong Luneng have the fewest conceded goals (3) in Super League
- Chongqing Dangdai Lifan have the most conceded goals (16) in Super League
It's no vacation for neither Shandong nor Chongqing Dangdai Lifan 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.
Chongqing Dangdai Lifan have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1500 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
Shandong Luneng form and stats
Shandong Luneng have collected seven points from their first three Super League games here at Huangpu Sports Center, a promising start.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Rongze Han not having conceded a league goal in 207 minutes.
A strong away win for Shandong against Shijiazhuang Ever Bright the last match, as Marouane Fellaini and Tianyu Guo were on target. Xiang Ji was "man of the match" with a rating of 8.3 out of 10. The defender Ji served one assist, hit two key passes and won 7 of 9 duels.
In the match before that, Shandong hosted Guangzhou R&F and drew the game 0-0.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Shandong as they are travelling to their away game against Guangzhou Evergrande in the Super League. That match is three days after this one.
Shandong are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 3 goals in 3 games. As for guarding their own goal, Shandong have only let in 0 goals at home.
Chongqing Dangdai Lifan form and stats
No Super League points yet away for Chongqing Dangdai Lifan, from their first 3 matches. Recent form does not give Chongqing much hope, as the visitors have lost three games in a row. Shandong Luneng will be a tough nut to crack.
Chongqing Dangdai Lifan might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Shenzhen proved too strong as Chongqing Dangdai Lifan slumped to a 0-3 defeat in front of their own fans at Chongqing Olympic Sports Center. The attacker Miller Bolaños got a match rating of 7.21 in that game. Bolaños dribled passed the opponent 2 of 3 times and had 28 successful passes (of 32 total). Chongqing lost heavily in their last match (against Shenzhen as mentioned above) and the damage happened in the first half. Something did not go right in the pre-game preparations.
Prior to that match, the Chongqing manager W. Chang faced defeat when travelling to Guangzhou Evergrande and losing 1-3.As mentioned above, the bookmakers do not believe the away team will get anything from this match. Checking Chongqing Dangdai Lifan's match history for similar games we find three matches. The home team won three of these as expected, one of them by at least two goals. Chongqing Dangdai Lifan managed zero draws and zero surprise wins.
After this away game Chongqing Dangdai Lifan return home for a Super League game against Guangzhou R&F. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Chongqing as they have only managed to score 2 times from 3 away games in the league. The Chongqing manager W. Chang has some worries about the defense as 7 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was Chongqing Dangdai Lifan - Shandong Luneng 0-2, played this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Shandong victories, three draws and two Chongqing Dangdai Lifan wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, eight matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Fellaini-Bakkioui 4 goals |  T. Guo 3 goals |   C. Yin 3 goals |
Shandong Luneng missing players
Chongqing Dangdai Lifan missing players
| Shandong Luneng | Chongqing Dangdai Lifan | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 10 | 3 | 2 | Scored | S | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 7 | 16 |
| 86% | 67% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 71% | 33% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 86% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 71% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 67% | 57% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 57% |
| 71% | 100% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 14% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 43% |
| 6 | 7.3 | 8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 1 | 4.7 | 3.9 |
| 4.7 | 4.7 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8 | 7 | 6 |
| 1.3 | 2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1 | 1.7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11.1 | 14.3 | 9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5 | 11.3 | 9.4 |
| 3.3 | 4 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 4.3 | 3.3 |
| 43% | 25% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 15% | 30% |
- Chongqing Dangdai Lifan have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Chongqing Dangdai Lifan have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Chongqing Dangdai Lifan have lost all their away matches so far.
- Chongqing Dangdai Lifan have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Super League
- Chongqing Dangdai Lifan have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Super League
- Chongqing Dangdai Lifan have the fewest points (0) away in Super League
- Chongqing Dangdai Lifan have the most conceded goals (16) in Super League
- Chongqing Dangdai Lifan have the most conceded goals (7) away in Super League
- Chongqing Dangdai Lifan have the most conceded goals in the first half (8) in Super League
- Chongqing Dangdai Lifan have the most conceded goals in the second half (8) in Super League
- Chongqing Dangdai Lifan have the the worst goal difference (-5) away in Super League
- Chongqing Dangdai Lifan have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- Chongqing Dangdai Lifan haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Shandong Luneng have not yet lost a game.
- Shandong Luneng have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Shandong Luneng have the fewest conceded goals (0) at home in Super League
- Shandong Luneng have the fewest conceded goals (3) in Super League
- Shandong Luneng have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Super League
- Shandong Luneng have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Super League
- Shandong Luneng have the fewest matches over the total-line (1) in Super League
- Shandong Luneng have the most clean sheets (3) at home in Super League
- Shandong Luneng have the most clean sheets (5) in Super League
- Shandong Luneng have won significantly more corners at home than 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 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 15 |
| 2 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 14 |
| 3 | Shenzhen | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 14 |
| 4 | Guangzhou R&F | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| 5 | Henan Jianye | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 6 | Qingdao Hainiu | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -9 | 7 |
| 7 | Chongqing Dangdai Lifan | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -9 | 4 |
| 8 | Shijiazhuang Ever Bright | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -6 | 3 |