📏 Form Guide

Shanghai Port

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Shanghai Port will be looking for another win after a 2-1 Super League success vs Meizhou Hakka.

In that match, Shanghai Port had 50% possession and 19 shots at goal with 9 of them on target. For Shanghai Port, goals were scored by Gustavo (6') and Wang Shenchao (90' Own goal). For their opponents, Meizhou Hakka got 9 shots on goal with 1 on target.

Fixtures featuring Shanghai Port have usually been lively ones lately with plenty of scoring expected. Over their past six games, a grand total of 20 goals have flown in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 9 of those being chalked up by Shanghai Port.

Shanghai Shenhua

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Shanghai Shenhua head into the game after a 3-1 Super League win as they beat Yunnan Yukun in their last match.

In that match, Shanghai Shenhua had 70% possession and 37 attempts on goal with 8 of them on target. The scorer for Shanghai Shenhua was Saulo Mineiro (85', 90'). At the other end, Yunnan Yukun got 9 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Nené (63' Own goal) was the scorer for Yunnan Yukun.

In a total of 5 of the previous 6 clashes involving Shanghai Shenhua, at least three goals have been struck. The average goals scored per game within that spell is 3.33, with the number of goals averaged by Shanghai Shenhua being 1.83. That being said, we must now wait to see whether that pattern might be maintained in this next game or not.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 29/06/2022 tells us that Shanghai Port have won 2 of these games and Shanghai Shenhua 1, with the tally of drawn results being 3.

A combined sum of 20 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 12 of them for The Red Eagles and 8 created by Flower of Shanghai. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.33.

📰 Team News: Shanghai Port

Tyias Browning (Muscle strain), Lei Wu (Tear of the lateral meniscus) and Zhen'ao Wang (Cruciate ligament tear) will not be able to play for Shanghai Port gaffer Kevin Muscat.

It seems likely that The Red Eagles should go for a 4-3-3 formation in the match, beginning the first half with Junling Yan, Tian Ming, Zhen Wei, Umidjan Yusup, Shuai Li, Ruofan Liu, Jussa, Mateus Vital, Gabrielzinho, Gustavo and Leonardo.

ℹ️ Team News: Shanghai Shenhua

We reckon that Flower of Shanghai seem likely to elect for a 4-3-1-2 system using Yaxiong Bao, Wilson Manafa, Shenglong Jiang, Chenjie Zhu, Shinichi Chan, Haoyu Yang, Ke Li, Xi Wu, Joao Carlos Teixeira, Andre Luis and Saulo Mineiro.

🧠 Prediction

In our view, Shanghai Shenhua and Shanghai Port should both be able to score more than once here although it’s hard to pick a clear winner.

Shouldn’t be much in it, and there should be goals with a draw being quite a realistic outcome. That’s why our selection here is for a high-scoring affair with a score draw when the referee blows the final whistle.

Andre Moura, 11:03 06/04/2025