Shenzhen have struggled for points this season. Will the gang get something to cheer about when Shandong Taishan stop by Shenzhen Bao'an Stadium?
- Shenzhen have the most conceded goals (58) in Super League
- Shandong Taishan have the fewest conceded goals (19) in Super League
These teams have little in common geographically as Shandong Taishan have to travel 1800 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Both sides have had ample time to rest since their previous exertion in an official match. Let's have faith in that this will be an active fixture!
Shenzhen form and stats
With 3 Super League wins, 1 draw and 7 defeats from their home games, Shenzhen are certainly not brimming with confidence. It's been an uphill battle for Shenzhen in their home games for quite some time now, as four matches in a row are lost here. Not since the Meizhou Hakka game have they avoided the disappointment of defeat.
Shenzhen played out a slightly shocking defeat 0-1 against Nantong Zhiyun in their previous game, also played in front of their own fans. Midfield player Wakaso got a match rating of 7.85 in that game, the max score being 10. Wakaso hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 5 of 6 times.
Heartbreak before that as Shenzhen lost 1-2 at Dalian Yifang's place.The home team are doomed in this game if you believe the odds offered on Shandong Taishan to win. Let's see if Shenzhen are capable of creating a surprise here by looking at their earlier home games as massive outsiders: 7 games found revealing 0 Shenzhen wins, 0 draws and 7 defeats.
Lots of goals? Who knows about this one, but we do know that 13 of the 15 most recent league matches with this club has seen three goals or more.
At Shenzhen Bao'an Stadium, Shenzhen has the goal stats of 11-22 (for/against) from 11 league fixtures. When Shenzhen hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Henan Jianye, Nantong Zhiyun, Meizhou Hakka, Qingdao Jonoon and Dalian Yifang), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 3 of 3 times.
Shandong Taishan form and stats
The visitors are W2-D6-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Super League.
Shandong have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Dalei Wang. It's been 233 minutes since they last conceded in Super League.
Shandong Taishan go into this game after a win, the home game against Tianjin Teda that ended 1-0. Chi came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against Tianjin Teda last time out, making the manager Choi feel like a tactical genius. Lei was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.65. The defender Lei won 6 of 7 duels.
That result followed a home victory 4-0 versus Shijiazhuang Ever Bright.As mentioned earlier, Shandong will not be satisfied unless they get a comfortable victory in this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in 14 wins (12 by two or more goals winning margin), 0 draws and 0 surprising defeats.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Shandong Taishan have scored 12 goals in 11 league games away. Shandong Taishan have conceded 13 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
The 4 latest games involving these sides have all finished as Shandong Taishan wins. More of the same or streak broken?This was the result when the contenders played each other previously this season; Shandong Taishan - Shenzhen 3-0. One of the players to grab the headlines has been Fellaini with 8 goals scored against Shenzhen in these 10 games.
Top Goalscorers
  M. Fellaini-Bakkioui 9 goals |  C. da Cruz Queiroz Barcelos 8 goals |   F. Opoku Acheampong 5 goals |
Shenzhen missing players
Shandong Taishan missing players
| Shenzhen | Shandong Taishan | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 23 | 11 | 3 | Played | P | 4 | 11 | 23 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 2 | 11 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 6 | 8 |
| 17 | 7 | 3 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 20 | 11 | 3 | Scored | S | 4 | 12 | 42 |
| 58 | 22 | 10 | Conceded | C | 3 | 13 | 19 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 91% | 96% |
| 87% | 82% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 64% | 74% |
| 74% | 64% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 36% | 48% |
| 43% | 36% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 18% | 22% |
| 30% | 18% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 9% | 13% |
| 57% | 64% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 64% | 52% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 27% | 39% |
| 43% | 36% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 18% | 13% |
| 3.4 | 4.2 | 2.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 8 | 6.6 | 6.1 |
| 5.2 | 4.9 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.2 |
| 1.8 | 1.6 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.8 | 1.7 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 8.3 | 9.8 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 17.2 | 14.1 | 15.2 |
| 2.9 | 3.4 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.5 | 5.3 | 5.4 |
| 30% | 30% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 15% | 21% | 34% |
| 17.2 | 15.7 | 20.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.2 | 9 | 7.6 |
| 6.1 | 4.8 | 7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.2 | 2.9 | 2.5 |
- Shandong Taishan have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Shandong Taishan have scored more than double the goals of Shenzhen.
- Shandong Taishan have the fewest conceded goals (19) in Super League
- Shenzhen have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Shenzhen have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Shenzhen have the fewest clean sheets (0) at home in Super League
- Shenzhen have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Super League
- Shenzhen have the most conceded goals (22) at home in Super League
- Shenzhen have the most conceded goals (58) in Super League
- Shenzhen have the most conceded goals in the first half (24) in Super League
- Shenzhen have the most conceded goals in the second half (34) in Super League
- Shenzhen have the the worst goal difference (-11) at home in Super League
- Shenzhen have the the worst goal difference (-38) in Super League
- Shenzhen have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Shenzhen haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Shenzhen is in the worst form (0-1-5)
| 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 | 23 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 51 | 20 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 24 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 4 | 31 | 53 |
| 2 | Shandong Taishan | 23 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 42 | 19 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 30 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 23 | 41 |
| 3 | Shanghai Shenhua | 23 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 27 | 24 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 3 | 41 |
| 4 | Beijing Guoan | 23 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 38 | 28 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 27 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 10 | 38 |
| 5 | Wuhan Three Towns | 23 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 36 | 26 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 21 | 13 | 10 | 36 |
| 6 | Chengdu Qianbao | 23 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 34 | 26 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 36 |
| 7 | Hangzhou | 23 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 36 | 31 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 18 | 5 | 36 |
| 8 | Tianjin Teda | 23 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 26 | 23 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 15 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 31 |
| 9 | Changchun Yatai | 22 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 35 | 35 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 19 | 0 | 31 |
| 10 | Shijiazhuang Ever Bright | 22 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 26 | 35 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 21 | -9 | 30 |
| 11 | Meizhou Hakka | 23 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 34 | 42 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 27 | -8 | 26 |
| 12 | Henan Jianye | 23 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 24 | 30 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 21 | -6 | 25 |
| 13 | Qingdao Jonoon | 23 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 25 | 33 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 16 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 17 | -8 | 20 |
| 14 | Nantong Zhiyun | 23 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 18 | 29 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 13 | -11 | 19 |
| 15 | Dalian Yifang | 23 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 20 | 33 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 19 | -13 | 18 |
| 16 | Shenzhen | 23 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 20 | 58 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 22 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 36 | -38 | 12 |
- South China Morning Post - News (in English)
