It's advantage Shanghai Shenhua so far, with the 5th position in the Super League table and welcoming Tianjin Teda (who are sitting at 11th).
- Tianjin Teda haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
Tianjin Teda have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1100 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
Shanghai Shenhua have less rest than Tianjin Teda in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Super League game only four days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus Chengdu Rongcheng, was also a home game here at Jinzhou Stadium. The away team is better rested.
Shanghai Shenhua form and stats
14 points is a decent return from 7 Super League games here at Jinzhou Stadium for Shanghai Shenhua. The data says 4 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss.
Shanghai are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 221 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by Yunding).
The Shanghai Shenhua crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-2 to Chengdu Rongcheng here at Jinzhou Stadium. The first loss after going undefeated through three league rounds. Midfielder Sun was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.0 (out of ten) in that game. Sun hit one key pass and had 60 successful passes (of 65 total).
In the match before that, Shanghai Shenhua hosted Changchun Yatai and drew the game 0-0.The Shanghai fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 8 in 7 matches. Shanghai Shenhua are not conceding a lot of goals here at Jinzhou Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 7 matches.
Tianjin Teda form and stats
As the visiting team in Super League matches, Tianjin Teda have produced an overall stat of 3-1-2 so far.
Tianjin Teda's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Changchun Yatai that finished 2-2. Bringing on Zhou was absolutely vital to the comeback against Changchun Yatai as the player changed the game with two goals and ensuring the draw 2-2. Zhou got a match rating of 8.4 in that game, top player of the team. Zhou scored two goals.
Preceding that game was the away victory against Hebei CFFC with the score of 4-3.The travelling fans enjoy Tianjin Teda's attacking play in away games, having scored 11 goals in 6 league matches away. Tianjin have conceded 9 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Head to head statistics (for the preceeding ten meetings): Shanghai Shenhua won six games, one match ended with a draw and Tianjin Teda got three wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / three
Top Goalscorers
  J. Zhu 5 goals |   D. Ba 5 goals |  Y. Cao 3 goals |
Shanghai Shenhua missing players
Tianjin Teda missing players
| Shanghai Shenhua | Tianjin Teda | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| 6 | 4 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 17 | 8 | 4 | Scored | S | 2 | 11 | 20 |
| 12 | 4 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 9 | 17 |
| 92% | 86% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 75% | 71% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 83% | 77% |
| 33% | 14% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 50% | 54% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 23% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 33% | 15% |
| 50% | 29% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 62% |
| 42% | 57% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 17% | 23% |
| 17% | 29% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 15% |
| 4.2 | 4.6 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 5 | 4.2 |
| 3.8 | 3 | 2.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4.2 | 3.6 |
| 2.1 | 2.3 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 0.8 | 0.9 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 12.8 | 12.3 | 18 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 13 | 11.7 |
| 2.7 | 2.1 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.8 | 3.7 |
| 53% | 53% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 48% | 42% |
| 8.8 | 8.6 | 6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8 | 8.7 | 9.7 |
| 2.7 | 2.3 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
- Tianjin Teda haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Wuhan Three Towns | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 44 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 37 | 37 |
| 2 | Shandong Luneng | 13 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 29 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 21 | 33 |
| 3 | Henan Jianye | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 26 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 26 |
| 4 | Meizhou Hakka | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 23 |
| 5 | Shanghai Shenhua | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 22 |
| 6 | Chengdu Rongcheng | 13 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 21 |
| 7 | Shanghai SIPG | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 20 |
| 8 | Beijing Guoan | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 17 | 0 | 19 |
| 9 | Shenzhen | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 17 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -2 | 19 |
| 10 | Hangzhou | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 18 |
| 11 | Tianjin Teda | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 18 |
| 12 | Wuhan Yangtze | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 18 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 11 | -6 | 16 |
| 13 | Changchun Yatai | 12 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 16 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 15 | -4 | 13 |
| 14 | Shijiazhuang Ever Bright | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -9 | 10 |
| 15 | Dalian Yifang | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 20 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -9 | 8 |
| 16 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 12 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 13 | -14 | 6 |
| 17 | Guangzhou R&F | 13 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 34 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 12 | -25 | 3 |
| 18 | Hebei CFFC | 13 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 34 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 23 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 11 | -26 | 3 |
- South China Morning Post - News (in English)
