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- Shanghai SIPG have not yet lost a game at home.
- Shanghai SIPG have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Guangzhou R&F have scored away.
These teams have little in common geographically as Guangzhou R&F have to travel 1400 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
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.
Shanghai SIPG form and stats
Last season, Shanghai SIPG's league results were 10 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses, results that produced 1st spot in the Super League. Over these 14 matches they scored 26 goals and gave away 11. Playing at their own stadium in the former season Shanghai SIPG managed 6-1-0 (win-draw-lost) with 17 goals and 4 conceded. After failing to beat Changchun Yatai here at Huangpu Sports Center, Shanghai has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with five wins in a row.
Shanghai enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Shenzhen's place. The match ended 3-1 with Mooy, Li and Oscar scoring. The attacking player Oscar was named "man of the match" for Shanghai with a rating of 9.14/10. Oscar scored one goal, served one assist, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 4 of 4 times.
Preceding that game was the home draw versus Shanghai Shenhua that ended 1-1.Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Super League game versus Shandong Luneng in only three days. This game is also played here at Huangpu Sports Center.
Guangzhou R&F form and stats
Let's have a look at how Guangzhou R&F performed last season in the Super League: They landed a 6th position in the league table after playing out 4 victories, 3 draws and 7 defeats. In total they scored 14 and conceded 28 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 2 - drew 3 and lost 2 with 9/11 goals scored/conceded.
Home advantage was not enough for Guangzhou in their previous game, as they lost their Super League-match, hosting Changchun Yatai, 0-2. Yi, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.15. Yi won 2 of 2 duels.
Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs Chengdu Qianbao.A new game in only three days for Guangzhou, the Super League home match versus Beijing Guoan. Busy days.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Shanghai five wins, three draws and Guangzhou R&F two victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  W. Lü 6 goals |   G. Costa Marques 5 goals |  T. De Leonco 5 goals |
Shanghai SIPG missing players
Guangzhou R&F missing players
| Shanghai SIPG | Guangzhou R&F | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 7 | 15 |
| 9 | 6 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 33 | 16 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 7 | 21 |
| 8 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 7 | 23 |
| 87% | 86% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 86% | 87% |
| 67% | 57% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 57% | 73% |
| 53% | 57% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 29% | 47% |
| 33% | 29% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 29% | 47% |
| 20% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 40% | 14% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 29% | 53% |
| 53% | 86% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 57% | 33% |
| 20% | 14% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 29% | 27% |
| 6.7 | 6.6 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 3.6 | 3.3 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7 | 6.4 | 5.2 |
| 1.2 | 1.1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.1 | 1.7 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12.9 | 13 | 9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 4 | 8.4 | 9.7 |
| 4.7 | 4.9 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 2.6 | 3.5 |
| 46% | 47% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 39% | 40% |
| 10.7 | 11.9 | 10 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 19 | 14 | 13.5 |
| 3.5 | 3.3 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 5 | 5.5 |
- Shanghai SIPG have not yet lost a game at home.
- 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.
- Shanghai SIPG have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Guangzhou R&F have scored 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 36 |
| 2 | Shanghai SIPG | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 31 |
| 3 | Changchun Yatai | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 31 |
| 4 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 30 |
| 5 | Beijing Guoan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 27 |
| 6 | Shenzhen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 24 |
| 7 | Hebei CFFC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 23 |
| 8 | Guangzhou R&F | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 21 |
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