Shanghai Port vs Shandong Luneng Live Stream, Predictions (May 17)

📊 Form Guide

Shanghai Port

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Shanghai Port are hoping to win again following the 3-1 Super League victory over Qingdao Hainiu.

In that match, Shanghai Port managed 63% possession and 29 shots at goal with 8 on target. For Shanghai Port, the goals were scored by Mateus Vital (13'), Leonardo (54') and Gustavo (88'). On the other side, Qingdao Hainiu had 11 shots on goal with 4 on target. Filipe Augusto (6') was the scorer for Qingdao Hainiu.

Fixtures involving Shanghai Port have proved to be exciting ones lately with plenty of scoring expected. Over their past 6 games alone, a total of 23 goals have been scored for both sides combined (at an average of 3.83 goals per game) with 14 of those accredited to Shanghai Port.

Shandong Luneng

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Shandong Luneng will go into the encounter following a 4-2 Super League win as they beat Zhejiang Professional in their most recent match.

In that match, Shandong Luneng managed 48% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 8 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Shandong Luneng was Valeri Qazaishvili (24', 63', 90'). For their opponents, Zhejiang Professional got 18 shots at goal with 6 on target.

Indicating their fondness for eventful matches, we’ve seen goals 27 times in the last 6 games in which Shandong Luneng have taken to the field, making it a mean average of 4.5 goals per fixture. Opposition teams have managed 14 of these goals. Nonetheless, we must now wait to see if such a trend might be replicated in this next match or not.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A quick look at their past head to head meetings going back to 23/12/2022 reveals that these fixtures have not been kind to Shandong Luneng. They’ve not managed to get themselves any wins whatsoever whereas Shanghai Port have remained in the ascendancy, beating them in 67% of those ties.

An aggregate of 18 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 12 for The Red Eagles and 6 belonging to Taishan Dui. That’s an average goals per game of 3.

📋 Team News: Shanghai Port

Junling Yan (Ankle injury), Umidjan Yusup (Arm injury) and Zhen'ao Wang (Cruciate ligament tear) will be missing for Shanghai Port gaffer Kevin Muscat.

🔮 Prediction

Shanghai Port will most probably be able to create a high number of chances and successful shots on target.

However, Shandong Luneng may well struggle to score themselves although we do think that they will probably end up scoring here as well.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a comfortable 3-1 winning margin for Shanghai Port at the conclusion of the game.

📚 ⚽️ What are the top odds for this match?

Turning to the betting odds in the WDW market, a victory for Shanghai Port can be had for 1.9, betting on a draw is 4.33 & taking a punt on a victory for Shandong Luneng comes in at 3.25. Those are the best market prices available right now.

Peter Guest, 05:03 13/05/2025