Shanghai Shenhua are the guests at SAIC Motor Pudong Arena on Saturday for the Super League showdown with home team Shanghai Port.
View all of the Shanghai Port v Shanghai Shenhua predictions, poll and stats below - as well as up-to-date odds.
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Form Guide
Shanghai Port
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Shanghai Port are hoping to win again after their last result, a 4-3 Super League success vs Shandong Luneng.
In that game, Shanghai Port had 56% possession and 26 shots on goal with 13 of them on target. For Shanghai Port, the goalscorers were Gustavo (6'), Zhang Linpeng (12' Own goal), Leonardo Cittadini (33') and Wu Lei (54', 73'). On the other side, Shandong Taishan got 16 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Pedro Delgado (23') was the scorer for Shandong Luneng.
At least three goals per game were seen in 5 of the last 6 fixtures where Shanghai Port have been involved. Their opponents scored 7 of them in these games while Shanghai Port totted up 15.
Shanghai Shenhua
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Shanghai Shenhua will go into this meeting after a 0-2 Super League win with the downing of Nantong Zhiyun in their previous game.
In that game, Shanghai Shenhua had 55% possession and 8 shots on goal with 5 on target. For Shanghai Shenhua, the goalscorers were Cephas Malele (3') and João Teixeira (82'). On the other side, Nantong Zhiyun had 12 attempts on goal with 2 on target.
In their last 6 outings, Shanghai Shenhua have helped themselves to a tally of 14 goals. Shanghai Shenhua have also managed to score on each one of those occasions. During those fixtures, they’ve seen 3 goals go against them. We will find out whether or not that trend will end up being continued on into this next match.
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Head to head
Checking on their prior head-to-head clashes going back to 03/11/2021 tells us that Shanghai Port have won 2 of these and Shanghai Shenhua 1, with the number of drawn games standing at 3.
A total of 19 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 13 for The Red Eagles and 6 belonging to Flower of Shanghai. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.17.
The last league meeting between these clubs was Super League match day 19 on 29/07/2023 and the score finished Shanghai Shenhua 0-5 Shanghai Port.
In that game, Shanghai Shenhua had 46% possession and 11 shots on goal with 2 on target.
Shanghai Port had 11 shots on goal with 7 on target. Oscar (42', 66') and Wu Lei (44', 63') scored.
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Team News: Shanghai Port
It’s a low absenteeism rate, with just one fitness concern for the Shanghai Port manager Kevin Muscat to contend with from of an almost fully healthy squad. Shuai Li (Cervical spine injury) is sidelined.
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Team News: Shanghai Shenhua
Thanks to a completely healthy squad to pick from, the Shanghai Shenhua boss Leonid Slutskiy has zero fitness concerns to report before this match.
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Prediction
Looking at these two teams, we feel that Shanghai Shenhua would be disappointed if they were not to find the back of the net against this Shanghai Port lineup, but it possibly won’t be as many as they’ll concede.
We reckon that it will be a very close game with a 2-1 win for Shanghai Port after 90 minutes. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Andre Moura,
02:04 27/04/2024
🏟️ Team Focus:
Shanghai Port
Formed: 2005
Stadium: SAIC Motor Pudong Arena (37,000)
Captain: Oscar dos Santos
Chairman: Zhang Min
Manager: Kevin Muscat
Competitions: Super League position 3