📏 Form Guide

Shanghai Port

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Shanghai SIPG will be looking for a repeat result of a 0-3 Super League success over Nantong Zhiyun.

In that game, Shanghai SIPG had 66% possession and 12 shots at goal with 4 on target. The scorer for Shanghai SIPG was Oscar (13', 45'). For their opponents, Nantong Zhiyun had 5 shots on goal with 2 of them on target.

At least three goals per game were seen in 5 of the last 6 meetings where Shanghai SIPG have played. Opposition teams scored 6 times in this period while Shanghai SIPG managed a tally of 14.

Shandong Luneng

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In their previous game, Shandong Luneng drew 2-2 in the Super League tie with Henan Jianye.

In that match, Shandong Luneng managed 69% possession and 24 shots at goal with 5 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Shandong Luneng was Valeri Qazaishvili (91'). For their opponents, Henan had 4 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Bruno Nazário (80') scored for Henan Jianye.

It is worth noting that Shandong Luneng have struggled for goals over their last 6 encounters, recording the poor return of only 4. In those matches, Taishan Dui have also seen the collective goal tally of their opponents equal 8. Having said that, it remains to be seen if such a trend might be sustained in this upcoming match or not.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 01/01/2022 tells us that Shanghai SIPG have won 1 of these games and Shandong Luneng 2, with the number of drawn results being 3.

In all, 15 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 7 from The Red Eagles and 8 created by Taishan Dui. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.5.

The last league clash between the two was Super League match day 29 on 29/10/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Shanghai SIPG 1-1 Shandong Luneng.

On that day, Shanghai SIPG managed 29% possession and 4 shots at goal with 1 on target.

For their opponents, Shandong Luneng had 20 shots on goal with 8 on target.

📰 Team News: Shanghai Port

The Shanghai SIPG manager Kevin Muscat does not have any fitness worries to speak of coming into this game owing to a fully injury-free group available to select from.

🗞️ Team News: Shandong Luneng

Thanks to a fully injury-free group to pick from, the Shandong Luneng manager Kang-hee Choi has no fitness worries to report ahead of this game.

🧠 Prediction

Our assessment is that Shandong Luneng should be able to put one past this Shanghai SIPG team, although it is unlikely to prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We can see both teams to score in a 2-1 advantage for Shanghai SIPG at the end of this one. It will be interesting to see how this one goes.

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

Lucas Pereira, 11:06 14/04/2024