📏 Form Guide

Shanghai Shenhua

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Shanghai Shenhua, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following a 4-1 Super League triumph versus Wuhan Three Towns.

In that match, Shanghai Shenhua had 59% possession and 21 shots on goal with 12 of them on target. For Shanghai Shenhua, the scorers were André Luís (25') and João Teixeira (67'). Wuhan Three Towns got 7 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. Jiang Zhipeng (54') scored for Wuhan Three Towns.

Shanghai Shenhua haven’t been able to stop scoring goals, hitting the target in one hundred percent of their last 6 matches.

They have totted up the amount of 14 during that time while also conceding a total of 2.

Beijing Sinobo Guoan

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Since being beaten in their last game against Sichuan Jiuniu in Super League action, Beijing Sinobo Guoan will be hoping to turn things around here.

The only scorer from Beijing Sinobo Guoan was Zhang Xizhe (96'). Edu García (66') scored for Sichuan Jiuniu.

A succession of reliable displays from the Beijing Sinobo Guoan defensive unit has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 4 from their past 6 clashes overall. In that time, their forwards have scored 9. We shall soon find out if that trend can be sustained in this game.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 23/04/2021 shows us that Shanghai Shenhua have won 2 of them & Beijing Sinobo Guoan 3, with the tally of drawn results being 1.

A total of 19 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 9 of them from Flower of Shanghai and 10 coming from Imperial Guards. The average goals per game has been 3.17.

The last league game between the two was Super League match day 23 on 19/08/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Beijing Sinobo Guoan 2-1 Shanghai Shenhua.

On that day, Beijing Sinobo Guoan had 64% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Fábio Abreu (28', 37').

Shanghai Shenhua got 13 shots at goal with 7 on target. Christian Bassogog (14') scored.

🗞️ Team News: Shanghai Shenhua

The Shanghai Shenhua manager Leonid Slutskiy doesn’t have any fitness concerns at all ahead of this clash owing to a fully injury-free group available for selection.

📋 Team News: Beijing Sinobo Guoan

Due to a fully injury-free squad to pick from, the Beijing Sinobo Guoan boss Ricardo Soares has zero fitness concerns to speak of before this match.

⚡ Prediction

When taking all factors into account, Beijing Sinobo Guoan certainly have the ability to find the back of the net against this Shanghai Shenhua team, however that isn’t expected to prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We think that it’s going to be a close game with a 2-1 win for Shanghai Shenhua by the time that the referee blows the final whistle. Let’s just see how this one goes.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 11:04 13/04/2024