Super League: Shandong Luneng welcome Shenzhen in what should be an entertaining football match. Here's all the pre-match info you need!
- Shandong Luneng have the fewest conceded goals (6) in Super League
- Shenzhen have the most points (12) away in Super League
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.
These teams have little in common geographically as Shenzhen have to travel 1800 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Shandong Luneng form and stats
The story so far in the Super League for Shandong Luneng, who have the fewest conceded goals (6) in Super League, at their home stadium (Jinan Olympic Sports Center Stadium) is 4 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats. Two home wins in a row for Shandong bring valid hopes of a third.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Dalei Wang not having conceded a league goal in 202 minutes.
A strong away win for Shandong against Qingdao Hainiu the last match, as Marouane Fellaini, Liuyu Duan (2), Pedro Delgado and Jun-ho Son were on target. Liuyu Duan (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 9.03/10. Duan scored two goals, hit one key pass, dribled passed the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 65 successful passes (of 70 total). As mentioned above, Shandong Luneng "killed" Qingdao Hainiu in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency.
Previous to that game, a home match hosting Henan Jianye in a game that was won 2-0.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Shandong handle that role? We have found four games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are four wins, zero draws and zero defeats.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Shandong Luneng as they are travelling to their away game against Guangzhou R&F in the Super League. That match is three days after this one.
Shandong have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Jinan Olympic Sports Center Stadium with 8 goals in 5 league matches. Shandong have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 1 goal.
Shenzhen form and stats
4-0-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Shenzhen, who have the most points (12) away in Super League, in their Super League matches away. Shenzhen have won three away matches in a row now and will not be intimidated by being the visitors in this fixture.
The manager J. Granero Granero was unhappy after their last game, a Super League match played at their home ground Shenzhen Universiade Sports Centre. Shenzhen suffered a 0-1 loss to Guangzhou R&F (placed 4th). Yeljan Shinar, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.32. Shinar hit four key passes and won 2 of 4 duels.
That result followed a home victory 2-1 versus Guangzhou Evergrande.We have checked recent matches where Shenzhen have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those four games were zero victories, one draw and three defeats.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The Super League trip to Shijiazhuang Ever Bright.
Shenzhen create on average more than 2,5 goals per away game (in the league) all by themselves, having scored 13 goals in 5 travels. Shenzhen have conceded 6 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
The most recent history between these sides is the Shenzhen - Shandong 2-2 played earlier this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: eight - two - zero (Shandong wins - draws - Shenzhen wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Fellaini-Bakkioui 6 goals |   A. de Souza Pereira Junior 6 goals | T. Guo 5 goals |
Shandong Luneng missing players
Shenzhen missing players
| Shandong Luneng | Shenzhen | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 21 | 8 | 2 | Scored | S | 0 | 13 | 19 |
| 6 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 6 | 11 |
| 91% | 80% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 82% |
| 82% | 60% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 73% |
| 36% | 20% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 80% | 64% |
| 27% | 20% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 40% | 27% |
| 9% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 40% | 18% |
| 36% | 20% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 60% | 55% |
| 64% | 80% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 20% | 27% |
| 9% | 20% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 20% | 36% |
| 5.9 | 5.4 | 4.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 3.8 | 6.6 |
| 4.4 | 4.4 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 3.8 | 3.4 |
| 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 1.4 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12.5 | 14.2 | 15.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 20 | 14.4 | 15.3 |
| 4.5 | 4.8 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 5.8 | 5.2 |
| 43% | 33% | 22% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 45% | 33% |
- All of Shenzhen's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- 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 the fewest conceded goals (1) at home in Super League
- Shandong Luneng have the fewest conceded goals (6) in Super League
- Shandong Luneng have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in Super League
- Shandong Luneng have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (4) in Super League
- Shandong Luneng have the most clean sheets (4) at home in Super League
- Shandong Luneng have the most clean sheets (7) in Super League
- Shandong Luneng have the the best goal difference (+15) in Super League
- Shenzhen have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Shenzhen have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
- Shenzhen have the most points (12) away in Super League
- Shenzhen have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Shenzhen 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 | Shandong Luneng | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 15 | 24 |
| 2 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 27 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 14 | 21 |
| 3 | Shenzhen | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 21 |
| 4 | Guangzhou R&F | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 17 |
| 5 | Henan Jianye | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 14 |
| 6 | Chongqing Dangdai Lifan | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 12 | -8 | 8 |
| 7 | Shijiazhuang Ever Bright | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -8 | 7 |
| 8 | Qingdao Hainiu | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 27 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 10 | -21 | 7 |
- South China Morning Post - News (in English)