📏 Form Guide

Shanghai Port

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Shanghai Port, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 3-1 Super League success vs Qingdao Hainiu.

In that game, Shanghai Port managed 63% possession and 29 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. For Shanghai Port, the goalscorers were Mateus Vital (13'), Leonardo (54') and Gustavo (88'). Qingdao Hainiu had 11 shots on goal with 4 on target. Filipe Augusto (6') scored for Qingdao Hainiu.

Fixtures involving Shanghai Port have proved to be exciting ones lately with plenty of scoring expected. Over their past 6 games alone, a total of 23 goals have been scored for both sides combined (at an average of 3.83 goals per game) with 14 of those accredited to Shanghai Port.

Shandong Luneng

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Shandong Luneng will go into the clash after a 4-2 Super League win vs Zhejiang Professional in their previous match.

In that game, Shandong Luneng managed 48% possession and 11 shots at goal with 8 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Shandong Luneng was Valeri Qazaishvili (24', 63', 90'). Zhejiang Professional had 18 shots on goal with 6 of them on target.

Indicating their fondness for eventful matches, we’ve seen goals 27 times in the last 6 games in which Shandong Luneng have taken to the field, making it a mean average of 4.5 goals per fixture. Opposition teams have managed 14 of these goals. Nonetheless, we must now wait to see if such a trend might be replicated in this next match or not.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their past head to head results going back to 23/12/2022 shows that these encounters have been a source of anguish for Shandong Luneng. They’ve not been able to get themselves any wins at all while Shanghai Port have been dominant against them, beating them in 67 per cent of those match-ups.

In all, 18 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 12 from The Red Eagles and 6 being from Taishan Dui. The average goals per game has been 3.

📋 Team News: Shanghai Port

Junling Yan (Ankle injury), Umidjan Yusup (Arm injury) and Zhen'ao Wang (Cruciate ligament tear) are not available for Shanghai Port manager Kevin Muscat.

⚡ Prediction

Shanghai Port will most probably be able to create a high number of chances and successful shots on target.

However, Shandong Luneng may well struggle to score themselves although we do think that they will probably end up scoring here as well.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a comfortable 3-1 winning margin for Shanghai Port at the conclusion of the game.

Peter Guest, 11:04 17/05/2025