It's the second opportunity for points this league season as Shijiazhuang Ever Bright and Shanghai Shenhua fight it out at Jiangyin Sports Park Stadium.
- Shanghai Shenhua have scored at least twice as many goals away as Shijiazhuang Ever Bright have scored home.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Shijiazhuang and Shanghai Shenhua.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1100 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Shijiazhuang Ever Bright form and stats
In the previous season, Shijiazhuang Ever Bright's league statistics were 4 wins, 5 draws and 5 losses, leading to 6th place in the Super League. In these 14 matches they scored 18 goals and conceded 21. Performing as the home team in the former season Shijiazhuang Ever Bright generated 3-2-2 (win-draw-lost) with 12 goals and 10 conceded.
In their previous game, the manager Šapurić led his Shijiazhuang to a defeat in the Super League match away at Wuhan Zall. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Jiangyin Sports Park Stadium. A goal frenzy last time out for Shijiazhuang Ever Bright, with a total of 6 goals in the match against Wuhan Zall. Fun stuff to watch! Oscar Taty Maritu, who usually features in attack, was the best player for the side in that match, scoring a rating of 8.03 (out of 10). Maritu scored one goal, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 25 successful passes (of 29 total).
Before that game, the home loss against Shenzhen with the scoreline 1-3.The manager Šapurić will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Dalian Yifang in only three days.
Shanghai Shenhua form and stats
Let's have a look at how Shanghai Shenhua performed last season in the Super League: They landed a 4th position in the league table after playing out 5 victories, 6 draws and 3 defeats. In total they scored 16 and conceded 15 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 3 - drew 3 and lost 1 with 5/3 goals scored/conceded.
Shanghai are travelling after their nice 3-0 home win in the Super League against Qingdao Hainiu (placed 8th). Lonsana Doumbouya, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 9.84. Doumbouya scored two goals, hit the woodwork once and hit one key pass.
Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Shanghai SIPG.A new game in only three days for Shanghai, the Super League home match versus Chongqing Dangdai Lifan. Busy days.
Head 2 Head
Data for the prior two meetings between these two squads are: one win for Shijiazhuang, zero draws and one win for Shanghai Shenhua. Over 2,5 goals: two times; under 2,5 goals: zero games.Top Goalscorers
  A. Mierzejewski 5 goals |  C. Mougang Bassogog 4 goals |   S. Sunzu 2 goals |
Shijiazhuang Ever Bright missing players
Shanghai Shenhua missing players
| Shijiazhuang Ever Bright | Shanghai Shenhua | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 7 | 15 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 9 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 15 | 5 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 13 | 24 |
| 27 | 8 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 11 | 17 |
| 87% | 86% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 87% |
| 87% | 86% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 71% | 67% |
| 53% | 14% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 57% | 53% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 57% | 33% |
| 13% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 29% | 20% |
| 60% | 29% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 71% | 60% |
| 20% | 29% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 27% |
| 33% | 57% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 29% | 27% |
| 3.6 | 3.6 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7 | 7 | 6.1 |
| 3.9 | 4.1 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2 | 3.1 | 3.6 |
| 2.1 | 2.3 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.6 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 9.9 | 8.7 | 7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 17.3 | 16.5 |
| 3.2 | 3 | 1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 7 | 6.5 |
| 31% | 24% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 27% | 25% |
| 12.5 | 10.7 | 3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 6 | 6.6 | 7.5 |
| 4.7 | 3.6 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 2.6 | 2.6 |
- Shanghai Shenhua have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Shanghai Shenhua have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Shanghai Shenhua have scored at least twice as many goals away as Shijiazhuang Ever Bright have scored home.
- Shanghai Shenhua have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded away.
- Shanghai Shenhua haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 | Shanghai Shenhua | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | Henan Jianye | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 18 |
| 3 | Wuhan Zall | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14 |
| 4 | Chongqing Dangdai Lifan | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 12 |
| 5 | Dalian Yifang | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| 6 | Tianjin Teda | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 7 | Shijiazhuang Ever Bright | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 10 |
| 8 | Qingdao Hainiu | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 7 |
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