📊 Form Guide

Shanghai Port

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Shanghai Port will play in this game after a 3-3 Super League stalemate vs Qingdao Youth Island.

In that match, Shanghai Port had 69% possession and 17 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. For Shanghai Port, the goalscorers were Gustavo (56') and Leonardo (83'). Qingdao West Coast got 10 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Matheus Índio (9') and Abdul-Aziz Yakubu (19', 45') scored for Qingdao Youth Island.

It has not been often in recent times that Shanghai Port have shown defensive steel. In fact, Shanghai Port have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 11 goals on the way.

Meizhou Hakka

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Since tasting defeat last time out to Shandong Luneng in Super League action, Meizhou Hakka and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, Meizhou Hakka had 33% possession and 5 shots at goal with 4 on target. For Meizhou Hakka, the scorers were Yang Chaosheng (20') and Rodrigo Henrique (34'). For their opponents, Shandong Taishan got 20 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. Valeri Qazaishvili (45') and Lucas Gazal (90') scored for Shandong Luneng.

During their 6 most recent matches, Pablo Villar's Meizhou Hakka have had reason to celebrate scoring a total of 9 times thus yielding them a goals scored per game average of 1.5.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their past head to head results going back to 24/10/2022 shows that these fixtures have been disappointments for Meizhou Hakka. They have not been able to get any wins at all while Shanghai Port have been too good for them, beating them in 83% of those matches played.

Loads of goals were seen in those games, too - 24 in all which averages out at 4 goals per meeting.

The previous league fixture between the two was Super League match day 22 on 09/08/2024 when the final score was Shanghai Port 7-2 Meizhou Hakka.

That day, Shanghai Port managed 67% possession and 32 attempts on goal with 15 on target. The goals were scored by Wu Lei (3', 38', 45', 63'), Gustavo (31') and Matías Vargas (65', 69').

At the other end, Meizhou Hakka had 8 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Rodrigo Henrique (34') and Yang Chaosheng (82') scored.

🗞️ Team News: Shanghai Port

Tyias Browning (Muscle strain) and Lei Wu (Tear of the lateral meniscus) are not available for Shanghai Port gaffer Kevin Muscat.

💭 Prediction

For this match, we think that Shanghai Port have it within them to have the majority of the possession and should be able to turn a few of their chances into goals.

Conversely, Meizhou Hakka won’t find it easy to score although we do reckon that they could well end up hitting back at some stage, too.

Accordingly, we see a decent 3-1 victory for Shanghai Port at the end of the 90 minutes.

Lucas Pereira, 11:05 02/04/2025