Shanghai Shenhua will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 5 points behind Guangzhou Evergrande.
The hosts Shanghai saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the Super League. That game was an away game at Henan Jianye, so at least Shanghai are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
It's quite the trip for Guangzhou Evergrande when visiting Shanghai Shenhua as the cities are 1400 kilometers apart.
Shanghai Shenhua form and stats
Shanghai Shenhua have collected 4 points from their Super League home games so far after 1-1-1.
An away draw last time out for Shanghai, facing Henan Jianye in a game that ended 0-0. Preceding that match was a defeat to Guangzhou R&F (2-3).
The Shanghai Shenhua manager K. Choi has got the team scoring with 7 from 3 home games in the league. Shanghai Shenhua have conceded 7 goals in these home games, a significant number.
Guangzhou Evergrande form and stats
As the visiting team in Super League matches, Guangzhou Evergrande, who have the most scored goals (17) in Super League, have produced an overall stat of 3-1-0 so far.
It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Dalian Yifang (placed 8th) in their previous outing. The Super League match ended in a draw 2-2. A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Jiangsu Suning.
An inspired comeback made the scores level in Evergrande's duel with Dalian Yifang. It looked bad at 0-2 but the team were not done and fought back to 2-2 after Fei Nanduo found the equalizer.
Evergrande are scoring goals for fun in their league games away this season, having clocked up more than three goals per game on average (13 goals from 4 away games). Guangzhou Evergrande have conceded 4 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Guangzhou Evergrande - Shanghai 2-0 earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Shanghai one win, two draws and Guangzhou Evergrande seven victories. As for goals, nine matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one game had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Bezzera Maciel Júnior 19 goals |   G. Moreno Cardona 11 goals |  S. Wei 11 goals |
Shanghai Shenhua missing players
Guangzhou Evergrande missing players
| Shanghai Shenhua | Guangzhou Evergrande | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | 7 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 13 | 17 |
| 9 | 7 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 86% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 57% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 86% |
| 43% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 71% |
| 43% | 100% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 100% | 57% |
| 29% | 67% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 25% | 14% |
| 43% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 75% | 57% |
| 43% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 29% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 3.7 | 2.7 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 3.8 | 3 |
| 3.7 | 5.3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 6.5 | 6.1 |
| 2.1 | 1.7 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.8 | 2.1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 80 | 33 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 9 | 46 | 78 |
| 18 | 12 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 4 | 19 | 27 |
| 50% | 58% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 75% | 68% | 63% |
- All of Guangzhou Evergrande's away-matches have had more than 3,5 goals.
- All of Shanghai Shenhua's home-matches have had more than 3,5 goals.
- Guangzhou Evergrande has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (4)
- Guangzhou Evergrande has the fewest matches under the total-line (2)
- Guangzhou Evergrande has the most scored goals (13) away
- Guangzhou Evergrande has the most scored goals (17)
- Guangzhou Evergrande has the most scored goals in the first half (7)
- Guangzhou Evergrande has the most scored goals in the second half (10)
- Guangzhou Evergrande has the the best goal difference (+11)
- Guangzhou Evergrande has the the best goal difference (+9) away
- Guangzhou Evergrande have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- Guangzhou Evergrande have not yet lost a game away.
- Guangzhou Evergrande have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Guangzhou Evergrande have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Guangzhou Evergrande have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Guangzhou Evergrande have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- Guangzhou Evergrande haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Guangzhou Evergrande is in the best form (4-1-1)
- Shanghai Shenhua has the fewest points from losing position (0)
- Shanghai Shenhua have won significantly less 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 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 11 | 16 |
| 2 | Shandong Luneng | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 16 |
| 3 | Jiangsu Suning | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 11 |
| 4 | Shanghai Shenhua | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 11 |
| 5 | Shenzhen | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -2 | 7 |
| 6 | Guangzhou R&F | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -12 | 7 |
| 7 | Henan Jianye | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | -3 | 6 |
| 8 | Dalian Yifang | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -4 | 3 |