📏 Form Guide

Meizhou Hakka

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Meizhou Hakka will be hoping to return to winning ways here following the 3-1 Super League loss in their previous game against Qingdao Youth Island.

In that game, Meizhou Hakka managed 59% possession and 11 shots on goal with 3 on target. Qingdao West Coast had 10 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Abdul-Aziz Yakubu (18') and Nélson da Luz (67') scored for Qingdao Youth Island.

Meizhou Hakka haven’t had any problems with scoring, hitting the target every time they’ve gone out to play in their last 6 matches.

They’ve hit an aggregate of 11 during that period and have conceded a total of 10. Such a trend might not be sustained into this match, though.

Shanghai Shenhua

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Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of Chengdu Rongcheng in Super League action, Shanghai Shenhua will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, Shanghai Shenhua managed 53% possession and 9 shots at goal with 4 on target. On the other side, Chengdu Rongcheng got 13 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Romulo (27') scored for Chengdu Rongcheng.

In the course of their six latest matches, Leonid Slutskiy's Shanghai Shenhua have seen their efforts on goal rewarded 10 times therefore earning them the goals scored per game average of 1.67.

↔️ Head to head

Delving into their past head to head results going back to 20/09/2022 tells us that these encounters have been miserable for Meizhou Hakka. They’ve not managed to get themselves any wins at all whereas Shanghai Shenhua have remained in the ascendancy, beating them in 100% of those ties.

An aggregate of 11 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 1 from Meizhou and 10 netted by Flower of Shanghai. That is an average goals per game value of 1.83.

The previous league fixture between these clubs was Super League match day 16 on 26/06/2024 when it ended Shanghai Shenhua 3-0 Meizhou Hakka.

On that occasion, Shanghai Shenhua managed 68% possession and 21 shots on goal with 8 of them on target. Their only player to score was Cephas Malele (8', 49').

For their opponents, Meizhou Hakka had 6 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.

🗞️ Team News: Meizhou Hakka

It looks as if Meizhou Hakka should line up in a 4-2-3-1 formation for this one, handing starts to Quanbo Guo, Tze-Nam Yue, Junjian Liao, Ziyi Tian, Jianan Wang, Branimir Jocic, Haoran Zhong, Yun Liu, Rodrigo Henrique, Jerome Mbekeli and Chaosheng Yang.

ℹ️ Team News: Shanghai Shenhua

We reckon that Flower of Shanghai will likely utilise a 4-3-1-2 lineup with a starting lineup of Qinghao Xue, Wilson Manafa, Shenglong Jiang, Chenjie Zhu, Shinichi Chan, Tianyi Gao, Ke Li, Xi Wu, Pengfei Xie, Chengyu Liu and Saulo Mineiro.

🔮 Prediction

We feel that in this game, Shanghai Shenhua will most probably dominate on the ball and be rewarded with decent chances.

In contrast, Meizhou Hakka won’t find it easy to score but we can see them converting at least once here, too.

We reckon that it will be a decent 1-3 winning margin for Shanghai Shenhua after 90 minutes.

Lucas Pereira, 10:18 06/05/2025