Qingdao Youth Island will do battle with visiting side Shanghai Shenhua at their home stadium in the Super League game on Sunday.
All Qingdao Youth Island v Shanghai Shenhua game predictions, stats and user poll are shown below - as well as up-to-date odds.
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Qingdao Youth Island
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Qingdao Youth Island will be looking to improve on their last outing here following a 1-0 Super League defeat in their last game at the hands of Henan Jianye.
In that match, Qingdao Youth Island had 46% possession and 7 shots at goal with 1 on target. At the other end, Henan had 15 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Đorđe Denić (87') was the scorer for Henan Jianye.
Fixtures with Qingdao Youth Island have tended to be lively ones recently with high scoring being a real hallmark. Over their past 6 games, the sum of 25 goals have flown in for both sides combined (at an average of 4.17 goals per game) with 7 of those belonging to Qingdao Youth Island. However, we will just have to wait and see whether such a trend will be sustained here in this match or not.
Shanghai Shenhua
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Shanghai Shenhua will come into the encounter after a 3-0 Super League win to beat Meizhou Hakka in their previous match.
In that match, Shanghai Shenhua had 68% possession and 21 shots on goal with 8 of them on target. The only player to score for Shanghai Shenhua was Cephas Malele (8', 49'). On the other side, Meizhou Hakka got 6 attempts on goal with 1 on target.
A sequence of outstanding displays from the Shanghai Shenhua defensive players has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 2 from their past 6 fixtures combined. Over that same time, their forwards have scored 10.
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Head to head
The last league contest featuring these clubs was Super League match day 2 on 08/03/2024 which ended up with the score at Shanghai Shenhua 2-0 Qingdao Youth Island.
In that match, Shanghai Shenhua managed 66% possession and 22 shots at goal with 10 on target. The goals were scored by Cephas Malele (22') and André Luís (37').
Qingdao Youth Island had 6 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.
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Team News: Qingdao Youth Island
The Qingdao Youth Island boss Hisashi Kurosaki doesn’t have any fitness worries to speak of ahead of this clash with a completely injury-free group available to choose from.
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Team News: Shanghai Shenhua
With a completely healthy group to choose from, the Shanghai Shenhua manager Leonid Slutskiy has zero fitness worries to speak of coming into this match.
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Prediction
In our opinion, Qingdao Youth Island will manage to find the back of the net against this Shanghai Shenhua lineup, however a single goal possibly won’t quite be enough.
We’ve gone for a close game with a 1-2 win for Shanghai Shenhua when all is said and done. Let’s see what happens here.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Lucas Pereira,
05:00 30/06/2024
🏟️ Team Focus:
Qingdao Youth Island
Formed: 2007
Captain: Yong Tian
Manager: Hisashi Kurosaki
Competitions: Super League position 15, FA Cup (Fifth Round)