📊 Form Guide

Shandong Luneng

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Shandong Luneng will be hoping for a better result following the 1-0 AFC Champions League defeat in their last game at the hands of Yokohama F. Marinos.

Anderson Lopes (75') was the scorer for Yokohama F. Marinos.

It has been a rare occasion in recent times that Shandong Luneng have kept a clean sheet. In fact, Shandong Luneng have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 10 goals during that time.

Shanghai Shenhua

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Shanghai Shenhua will come into the match following a 2-0 Super League win vs Qingdao Youth Island in their most recent game.

In that game, Shanghai Shenhua managed 66% possession and 22 shots at goal with 10 of them on target. For Shanghai Shenhua, goals were scored by Cephas Malele (22') and André Luís (37'). At the other end, Qingdao West Coast got 6 attempts on goal with 1 on target.

In 5 of the past 6 games involving Shanghai Shenhua, a comparatively low number of goals have gone in between them and their opponents. The overall average goals scored per game during that spell comes to a paltry 1.83, with the number of goals averaged by Flower of Shanghai equalling 1.33. That kind of trend won’t necessarily follow through into this match, though.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head duels going back to 31/08/2022, it’s been all-even between these two clubs with Shandong Luneng winning 3 of those games, Shanghai Shenhua 3 and 0 being drawn after 90 minutes of play.

12 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 8 of them from Taishan Dui and 4 belonging to Flower of Shanghai. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.

🗞️ Team News: Shandong Luneng

The Shandong Luneng manager Kang-hee Choi will be thankful to have no fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this clash with a fully healthy squad to pick from.

ℹ️ Team News: Shanghai Shenhua

Owing to a completely injury-free group to pick from, the Shanghai Shenhua boss Leonid Slutskiy doesn’t have any fitness worries to report ahead of this game.

✨ Prediction

We believe that Shanghai Shenhua have the ability to put one past this Shandong Luneng lineup, although that may not quite prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We reckon that it will be both teams to score in a 2-1 win for Shandong Luneng after the 90. Looking forward to this.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 11:05 31/03/2024