It's early days in the Super League and both Tianjin Teda and Qingdao Hainiu are still hoping for a flying start in order to set the tone for the season. Three points can make a big difference at this stage.
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
Tianjin Teda form and stats
Tianjin Teda have less points than they have played home games in the Super League so far. Their two previous attempts here have produced 0 points. Tianjin has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager U. Stielike and the players. Tianjin are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at Suzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium, having lost their two previous games here.
Tianjin haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 209 minutes ago. Rong Hao scored that one.
The fans are hoping that Tianjin will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the Super League game against Hebei CFFC (placed 5th). Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Shijiazhuang Ever Bright (0-3).
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Tianjin Teda as they are travelling to their away game against Wuhan Zall in the Super League. That match is four days after this one.
Early season league goal statistics from Tianjin Teda's 2 home games: 2 goals, 6 conceded.
Qingdao Hainiu form and stats
Still no away game victory in the Super League for Qingdao Hainiu, who have the most clean sheets (1) away in Super League, with 2 draws and 1 loss from their first 3 attempts. The Qingdao manager J. Wu is a generous human being, having led his team to four draws in a row during the last 27 days. Visiting Qingdao has seen their last two away games both end with a tied score and one point each.
Qingdao's last game was the home draw against Beijing Guoan (3-3). Before that, Qingdao travelled to Chongqing Dangdai Lifan and returned home with a draw after the game finished 0-0.
An inspired comeback made the scores level in Qingdao Hainiu's duel with Beijing Guoan. It looked bad at 0-3 but the team were not done and fought back to 3-3 after R. Alessandrini found the equalizer. As you can tell from the result, the match against Beijing Guoan was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today?
The visitors have scored 2 goals from 3 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. 4 goals have been conceded by Qingdao Hainiu in these games.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  C. Cordova 15 goals |  J. Aparecido da Silva 13 goals | X. Gao 13 goals |
Tianjin Teda missing players
Qingdao Hainiu missing players
| Tianjin Teda | Qingdao Hainiu | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 13 | 6 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 67% | 80% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 67% | 80% |
| 80% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 40% |
| 60% | 100% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 40% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 60% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 60% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 33% | 20% |
| 40% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 67% | 40% |
| 5.4 | 5 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 2.3 | 2.2 |
| 4.2 | 6 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 11 | 9.7 | 10.2 |
| 1.2 | 0.5 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.7 | 1.6 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 45 | 19 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 4 | 17 | 31 |
| 15 | 4 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 1 | 6 | 15 |
| 27% | 50% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 33% | 40% |
- All of Tianjin Teda's home-matches have had more than 3,5 goals.
- Qingdao Hainiu has the most clean sheets (1) away
- Qingdao Hainiu has the most matches under the total-line (3)
- Qingdao Hainiu have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- Qingdao Hainiu have yet to win a game.
- Tianjin Teda has the fewest clean sheets (0)
- Tianjin Teda has the fewest points (0) at home
- Tianjin Teda has the fewest scored goals (2) at home
- Tianjin Teda has the fewest scored goals (4)
- Tianjin Teda has the most conceded goals (13)
- Tianjin Teda has the most conceded goals (6) at home
- Tianjin Teda has the most conceded goals in the first half (7)
- Tianjin Teda has the the worst goal difference (-4) at home
- Tianjin Teda has the the worst goal difference (-9)
- Tianjin Teda have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Tianjin Teda have created more than twice as many corners as Qingdao Hainiu.
- Tianjin Teda have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Tianjin Teda have lost all their home matches so far.
- Tianjin Teda haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Tianjin Teda is in the worst form (0-1-4)
| Tianjin Teda | Last season | Qingdao Hainiu | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 30 | 15 | Played | P | 15 | 30 | ||
| 12 | 9 | Won | W | 7 | 17 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 13 | 3 | Lost | L | 5 | 7 | ||
| 43 | 26 | Scored | S | 24 | 59 | ||
| 45 | 18 | Conceded | C | 22 | 36 | ||
| 97% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 93% | ||
| 83% | 93% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 80% | 77% | ||
| 60% | 53% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 60% | 63% | ||
| 23% | 13% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 37% | ||
| 17% | 13% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 20% | 20% | ||
| 60% | 53% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 63% | ||
| 23% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 7% | 23% | ||
| 20% | 13% | Failed to Score | F T | 27% | 20% | ||
| 5.2 | 6.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 4.9 | ||
| 5.1 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.6 | 4 | ||
| 2.2 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 1.8 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 376 | 220 | Total Shots | T S | 118 | 317 | ||
| 129 | 75 | Shots on Target | S O | 48 | 111 | ||
| 33% | 35% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 53% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Beijing Guoan | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 13 |
| 2 | Shanghai SIPG | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 11 |
| 3 | Wuhan Zall | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 4 | Shijiazhuang Ever Bright | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | Hebei CFFC | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -4 | 5 |
| 6 | Qingdao Hainiu | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 4 |
| 7 | Chongqing Dangdai Lifan | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -3 | 3 |
| 8 | Tianjin Teda | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -9 | 1 |
- South China Morning Post - News (in English)