Chengdu Rongcheng will be facing visiting team Shandong Luneng at Phoenix Mountain Sports Park in this Super League tie on Friday.
Full predictions, pre-match stats and user poll for Chengdu Rongcheng v Shandong Luneng are shown on this page (plus the best game odds).
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Form Guide
Chengdu Rongcheng
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Chengdu Rongcheng, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 3-1 Super League triumph against Sichuan Jiuniu.
In that game, Chengdu Rongcheng managed 57% possession and 19 shots on goal with 5 on target. Shenzhen Peng City got 4 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Samuel Armenteros (26') was the scorer for Sichuan Jiuniu.
Jung-won Seo's Chengdu Rongcheng have seen rewards for their attempts on goal a sum total of 12 times in their prior 6 outings. The comparative number of goals that have been scored against them in those same fixtures stands at 5.
Shandong Luneng
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Shandong Luneng come into this game following on from a 4-1 Super League win over Shijiazhuang Ever Bright in their last game.
In that match, Shandong Luneng had 68% possession and 25 shots on goal with 9 on target. For Shandong Luneng, the goalscorers were Li Yuanyi (39'), Fernandinho (45') and Valeri Qazaishvili (66'). Cangzhou Mighty Lions had 8 shots on goal with 4 of them on target.
Demonstrating their involvement in productive encounters, goals have been seen as many as 21 times in the prior 6 matches in which Shandong Luneng have sent out their troops, yielding an average of 3.5 goals each meeting. Opposition teams have got 11 of those goals. In any event, time will tell whether that pattern will be replicated in this upcoming match.
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Head to head
The last league contest between these sides was Super League match day 6 on 08/08/2023 which ended up with the score at Shandong Luneng 0-1 Chengdu Rongcheng.
On that occasion, Shandong Luneng had 58% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 3 on target.
At the other end, Chengdu Rongcheng had 10 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Min-Woo Kim (37') was the scorer.
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Team News: Chengdu Rongcheng
The Chengdu Rongcheng manager Jung-won Seo will be grateful not to have any fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this game owing to a fully injury-free squad ready to go.
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Team News: Shandong Luneng
Thanks to a fully healthy group available for selection, the Shandong Luneng boss Kang-hee Choi does not have any fitness worries at all coming into this game.
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Prediction
Weโre of the opinion that Shandong Luneng could find themselves up against it to be putting a goal past this Chengdu Rongcheng side who we reckon will end up scoring and staying ahead.
Weโre going for a very even contest with a 1-0 win for Chengdu Rongcheng at the end of the 90.
Letโs see what happens.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Lucas Pereira,
14:17 25/04/2024
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Chengdu Rongcheng
Formed: 2018
Stadium: Phoenix Mountain Sports Park (50,695)
Captain: Tim Chow
Chairman: Li Mingqin
Manager: Jung-won Seo
Competitions: Super League position 2