Shijiazhuang Ever Bright are leaning on their home advantage to support them before this meeting with Guangzhou R&F. Who will win?
- Shijiazhuang Ever Bright have the most dropped points from leading position (10) in Super League
- Guangzhou R&F have the most scored goals in the second half (12) in Super League
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.
These teams have little in common geographically as Guangzhou R&F have to travel 1800 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Shijiazhuang Ever Bright form and stats
Shijiazhuang Ever Bright, who have the fewest points (5) at home in Super League, have collected 5 points from their Super League home games so far after 1-2-2.
In their previous game, the manager A. Ghotbi led his Shijiazhuang to a defeat in the Super League match away at Guangzhou Evergrande. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here. Midfield player Zang Yifeng got a match rating of 7.83 in that game, the max score being 10. Yifeng scored one goal, served one assist and hit three key passes. A goal frenzy last time out for Shijiazhuang Ever Bright, with a total of 7 goals in the match against Guangzhou Evergrande. Fun stuff to watch!
Before that, Shijiazhuang Ever Bright drew at home versus Chongqing Dangdai Lifan.The match schedule is unforgiving for Shijiazhuang as they have a new game in only three days, a Super League match thankfully also at home. Shenzhen are visiting.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Shijiazhuang here in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (3 from 5 games). Shijiazhuang have conceded 5 in these home matches.
Guangzhou R&F form and stats
2-2-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Guangzhou R&F in their Super League matches away.
Guangzhou play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Shenzhen (placed 3rd). Jown Cardona, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.84. Cardona dribled passed the opponent 5 of 7 times and had 36 successful passes (of 38 total). World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager J. van Gastel when Jihong Jiang scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 69th minute.
That result followed a home victory 4-2 versus Qingdao Hainiu.A quick return to home after this game, as Guangzhou are hosting Shandong Luneng in the Super League only three days away.
The attacking power of Guangzhou R&F when travelling is not overwhelming with 4 goals scored from 5 league matches away. As opposed to that, Guangzhou have seen the ball go into their own net 6 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Guangzhou R&F - Shijiazhuang 0-0 entered in the official records. Shijiazhuang Ever Bright-Guangzhou R&F H2H statistics last three meetings regardless of arena: Shijiazhuang Ever Bright one win, Guangzhou R&F one win, one draw. two of these three matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  G. Costa Marques 4 goals |  J. Cardona Agudelo 3 goals | T. De Leonco 3 goals |
Shijiazhuang Ever Bright missing players
Guangzhou R&F missing players
| Shijiazhuang Ever Bright | Guangzhou R&F | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | 3 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 4 | 17 |
| 18 | 5 | 0 | Conceded | C | 4 | 6 | 17 |
| 82% | 80% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 80% | 82% |
| 82% | 80% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 40% | 64% |
| 45% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 40% | 55% |
| 18% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 40% | 55% |
| 9% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 27% |
| 55% | 20% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 20% | 55% |
| 27% | 40% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 60% | 36% |
| 36% | 60% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 40% | 27% |
| 3.1 | 3 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 8 | 4.6 | 4.5 |
| 4.1 | 4 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 6.6 | 4.9 |
| 1.9 | 1.8 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.2 | 1.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9.3 | 8 | 7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 15.5 | 8.8 | 11 |
| 2.7 | 2.4 | 1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 2.4 | 4 |
| 33% | 25% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 14% | 33% | 39% |
- Guangzhou R&F have the most scored goals in the second half (12) in Super League
- Shijiazhuang Ever Bright have the fewest points (5) at home in Super League
- Shijiazhuang Ever Bright have the fewest scored goals (3) at home in Super League
- Shijiazhuang Ever Bright have the fewest scored goals in the second half (2) in Super League
- Shijiazhuang Ever Bright have the most dropped points from leading position (10) in Super League
| 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 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 15 | 24 |
| 2 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 27 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 14 | 21 |
| 3 | Shenzhen | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 21 |
| 4 | Guangzhou R&F | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 17 |
| 5 | Henan Jianye | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 14 |
| 6 | Chongqing Dangdai Lifan | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 12 | -8 | 8 |
| 7 | Shijiazhuang Ever Bright | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -8 | 7 |
| 8 | Qingdao Hainiu | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 27 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 10 | -21 | 7 |
- South China Morning Post - News (in English)