It's still early in the Super League season, but we are learning more and more about the teams. Here is the Shandong Luneng - Shanghai Shenhua preview!
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 800 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Shandong Luneng form and stats
Shandong Luneng travelled for their previous game, a trip to Jiangsu Suning that ended 0-0. Before that match, a win away at Dalian Professional.
The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Shandong handle that role? We have found three games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are three wins, zero draws and zero defeats.
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 four days after this one.
Shanghai Shenhua form and stats
The visitors' first away game in the Super League ended in defeat. Last season Shanghai Shenhua had these away match statistics: Played 15; won 3, drew 4 and lost 8.
Shanghai won their last game, 3-2 versus Shenzhen played at home. Prior to that match, the Shanghai manager K. Choi faced defeat when travelling to Guangzhou Evergrande and losing 0-2.
Shanghai Shenhua are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, one draw and five defeats. From a total of seven matches.
It's early days yet, but Shanghai Shenhua has scored 0 and conceded 2 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Shandong victories, four draws and two Shanghai Shenhua wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  G. Pellè 17 goals |  R. Krug Guedes 12 goals |   G. Moreno Cardona 11 goals |
Shandong Luneng missing players
Shanghai Shenhua missing players
| Shandong Luneng | Shanghai Shenhua | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 7 | 5.5 |
| 3.5 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 3.5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 3 | 2.5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | 0 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 15 | 21 |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 60% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 75% |
| Shandong Luneng | Last season | Shanghai Shenhua | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 30 | 15 | Played | P | 15 | 30 | ||
| 15 | 10 | Won | W | 3 | 8 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 4 | 6 | ||
| 9 | 2 | Lost | L | 8 | 16 | ||
| 55 | 29 | Scored | S | 18 | 43 | ||
| 35 | 13 | Conceded | C | 24 | 57 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 97% | ||
| 90% | 87% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 80% | 87% | ||
| 63% | 60% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 80% | ||
| 33% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 27% | 40% | ||
| 10% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 7% | 17% | ||
| 63% | 47% | BTTS | BTTS | 73% | 73% | ||
| 27% | 40% | Clean Sheets | C S | 7% | 7% | ||
| 10% | 13% | Failed to Score | F T | 20% | 23% | ||
| 5 | 5.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.6 | 5.1 | ||
| 5 | 4.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.6 | 4.6 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.7 | ||
| 4 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 398 | 208 | Total Shots | T S | 188 | 425 | ||
| 154 | 82 | Shots on Target | S O | 66 | 140 | ||
| 36% | 35% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 31% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 6 |
| 2 | Jiangsu Suning | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | Shandong Luneng | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | Shenzhen | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Shanghai Shenhua | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -1 | 3 |
| 6 | Henan Jianye | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 7 | Dalian Professional | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 |
| 8 | Guangzhou R&F | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -8 | 0 |
| Last season | Total | Home | Away | ||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 30 | 23 | 3 | 4 | 68 | 24 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 10 | 15 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 40 | 14 | 44 | 72 |
| 2 | Beijing Guoan | 30 | 23 | 1 | 6 | 60 | 26 | 15 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 37 | 16 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 23 | 10 | 34 | 70 |
| 3 | Shanghai SIPG | 30 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 62 | 26 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 38 | 13 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 24 | 13 | 36 | 66 |
| 4 | Jiangsu Suning | 30 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 60 | 41 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 34 | 14 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 26 | 27 | 19 | 53 |
| 5 | Shandong Luneng | 30 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 55 | 35 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 29 | 13 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 26 | 22 | 20 | 51 |
| 6 | Wuhan Zall | 30 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 41 | 41 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 16 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 22 | 25 | 0 | 44 |
| 7 | Tianjin Teda | 30 | 12 | 5 | 13 | 43 | 45 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 26 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 17 | 27 | -2 | 41 |
| 8 | Henan Jianye | 30 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 41 | 46 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 18 | 15 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 18 | 28 | -5 | 41 |
| 9 | Dalian Professional | 30 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 44 | 51 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 23 | 20 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 21 | 31 | -7 | 38 |
| 10 | Chongqing Dangdai Lifan | 30 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 36 | 47 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 18 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 21 | 29 | -11 | 36 |
| 11 | Hebei CFFC | 30 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 37 | 55 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 21 | 23 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 16 | 32 | -18 | 33 |
| 12 | Guangzhou R&F | 30 | 9 | 5 | 16 | 54 | 72 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 32 | 32 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 22 | 40 | -18 | 32 |
| 13 | Shanghai Shenhua | 30 | 8 | 6 | 16 | 43 | 57 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 25 | 33 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 24 | -14 | 30 |
| 14 | Tianjin Quanjian | 30 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 40 | 53 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 25 | 26 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 27 | -13 | 25 |
| 15 | Shenzhen | 30 | 4 | 9 | 17 | 31 | 57 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 24 | 23 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 34 | -26 | 21 |
| 16 | Beijing Renhe | 30 | 3 | 5 | 22 | 26 | 65 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 17 | 32 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 33 | -39 | 14 |
- South China Morning Post - News (in English)