The Shanghai SIPG & Beijing Guoan managers V. de Oliveira Lopes Pereira and B. Génésio are both dreading and looking forward to this decisive game in the upper regions of the Super League league table.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
These teams have little in common geographically as Beijing Guoan have to travel 1200 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Shanghai SIPG form and stats
6-1-0 is the performance here at Suzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium so far in the Super League, giving Shanghai SIPG a total of 19 from their 7 games here. Outstanding results!
The Shanghai crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-2 to Jiangsu Suning (after extra-time) here at Suzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium in a Super League match. Preceding that game was the away draw at Jiangsu Suning that finished 1-1.
The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Shanghai have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found three games) they have won one time, drawn zero and lost two.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Shanghai as they are travelling to their away game against Beijing Guoan in the Super League. That match is four days after this one.
The Shanghai SIPG manager V. de Oliveira Lopes Pereira has got the team scoring with 17 from 7 home games in the league. Shanghai SIPG are not conceding a lot of goals here at Suzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 7 matches.
Beijing Guoan form and stats
2-4-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Beijing Guoan, who have the most scored goals (36) in Super League, in their Super League matches away.
It might be tough going out on the road again for Beijing, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 1-3 versus Guangzhou Evergrande. A 0-0 draw was the result before that, hosting Guangzhou Evergrande.
It's a bit worrying for Beijing that their goalkeeper Sen Hou made seven saves in the Guangzhou Evergrande game last time out, but still couldn''t prevent the loss.
We have checked recent matches where Beijing have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those four games were zero victories, zero draws and four defeats.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Shanghai SIPG in just four days.
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Beijing Guoan are regular goalscorers on their travels. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Beijing have conceded 13 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Shanghai and Beijing Guoan have met before this season: Shanghai SIPG - Beijing Guoan 1-0. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's eight Shanghai victories, zero draws and two Beijing Guoan wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. Soares de Oliveira Augusto 15 goals |   G. Vieira de Souza 10 goals |  C. Bakambu 10 goals |
Shanghai SIPG missing players
Beijing Guoan missing players
| Shanghai SIPG | Beijing Guoan | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 9 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 9 | 18 |
| 10 | 6 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 29 | 19 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 18 | 41 |
| 15 | 7 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 18 | 25 |
| 94% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 94% |
| 78% | 89% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 89% | 83% |
| 50% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 89% | 78% |
| 17% | 22% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 78% | 61% |
| 6% | 11% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 22% | 22% |
| 61% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 89% | 72% |
| 28% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 22% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 11% | 11% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.4 | 1.6 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 263 | 132 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 125 | 256 |
| 96 | 52 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 50 | 106 |
| 30% | 37% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 36% | 39% |
- Beijing Guoan has the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Super League
- Beijing Guoan has the most scored goals (15) away in Super League
- Beijing Guoan has the most scored goals (36) in Super League
- Beijing Guoan has the most scored goals in the first half (21) in Super League
- Beijing Guoan has the most scored goals in the second half (20) in Super League
- Beijing Guoan has the the best goal difference (+17) in Super League
- Beijing Guoan have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Beijing Guoan have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Beijing Guoan haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Shanghai SIPG has the fewest conceded goals (11) in Super League
- Shanghai SIPG has the fewest conceded goals (4) at home in Super League
- Shanghai SIPG has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (5) in Super League
- Shanghai SIPG has the fewest matches over the total-line (5) in Super League
- Shanghai SIPG has the most matches under the total-line (11) in Super League
- Shanghai SIPG has the most points (19) at home in Super League
- Shanghai SIPG has the most points from losing position (13) in Super League
- Shanghai SIPG have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Shanghai SIPG have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Shanghai SIPG have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Shanghai SIPG haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Shanghai SIPG | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 26 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 15 | 32 |
| 2 | Beijing Guoan | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 36 | 19 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 13 | 17 | 28 |
| 3 | Chongqing Dangdai Lifan | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 14 | 3 | 24 |
| 4 | Hebei CFFC | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 25 | 23 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 2 | 24 |
| 5 | Wuhan Zall | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 16 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 17 |
| 6 | Shijiazhuang Ever Bright | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 11 | -3 | 17 |
| 7 | Qingdao Hainiu | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 14 | -12 | 10 |
| 8 | Tianjin Teda | 14 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 30 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 18 | -22 | 3 |