Getting closer to the top teams is at stake when these two mid-table clubs battle it out. Both will be aiming to improve their league table standing, Shanghai Shenhua in 4th and Chongqing Dangdai Lifan in 3rd place.
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 Chongqing Dangdai Lifan have to travel 1600 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Shanghai Shenhua form and stats
2 victories, 3 draws and 2 defeats. That’s what Shanghai Shenhua, who have the most clean sheets (8) in Super League, have to build on here at Kunshan Sports Center Stadium in the Super League.
Shanghai drew their last game, 1-1 away at Shanghai SIPG (after extra-time, 5-4 on penalties). The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 0-0 versus Shanghai SIPG.
Shilin Sun was able to secure the draw 1-1 in the game against Shanghai SIPG (after extra-time, 5-4 on penalties) after coming on as a substitute and scoring the final goal. In the starting lineup today?
The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Shanghai have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found one match with the results: Won one, drawn zero and lost zero.
Shanghai have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Kunshan Sports Center Stadium with 11 goals in 7 league matches. Shanghai have conceded 12 from these games.
Chongqing Dangdai Lifan form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Super League travels is 3 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats.
Chongqing are travelling again after losing away to Jiangsu Suning in their previous match (0-1). Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs Jiangsu Suning.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found five similar matches played by Chongqing Dangdai Lifan in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Chongqing Dangdai Lifan, two draws and one defeat.
Chongqing has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 13 goals from 7 games. For Chongqing, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - four - one (Shanghai wins - draws - Chongqing Dangdai Lifan wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. de Souza Pereira Junior 14 goals |   G. Moreno Cardona 11 goals |
Shanghai Shenhua missing players
Chongqing Dangdai Lifan missing players
| Shanghai Shenhua | Chongqing Dangdai Lifan | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 0 | 8 | 16 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 17 | 11 | 4 | Scored | S | 0 | 13 | 23 |
| 16 | 12 | 3 | Conceded | C | 0 | 15 | 21 |
| 75% | 75% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 94% |
| 62% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 88% | 69% |
| 25% | 50% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 75% | 56% |
| 25% | 50% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 38% | 31% |
| 19% | 38% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 25% | 12% |
| 44% | 62% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 50% | 38% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 12% | 31% |
| 31% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 38% | 25% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.4 | 1.9 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.9 | 1.7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 182 | 72 | 17 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 98 | 213 |
| 57 | 29 | 9 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 33 | 61 |
| 30% | 38% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 39% | 38% |
- Chongqing Dangdai Lifan has the fewest matches under the total-line (6) in Super League
- Chongqing Dangdai Lifan have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Chongqing Dangdai Lifan haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Shanghai Shenhua has the fewest matches over the total-line (4) in Super League
- Shanghai Shenhua has the most clean sheets (8) in Super League
- Shanghai Shenhua has the most matches under the total-line (12) in Super League
- Shanghai Shenhua have played more matches over 2,5 goals 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 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 31 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 19 | 34 |
| 2 | Jiangsu Suning | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 23 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 26 |
| 3 | Shandong Luneng | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 8 | 24 |
| 4 | Shanghai Shenhua | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 21 |
| 5 | Shenzhen | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 20 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 17 |
| 6 | Guangzhou R&F | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 28 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 11 | -14 | 15 |
| 7 | Dalian Professional | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 21 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 9 | -3 | 11 |
| 8 | Henan Jianye | 14 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 33 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 16 | -19 | 6 |