Shanghai Port face off with guests Shanghai Shenhua at SAIC Motor Pudong Arena in this Super League game on Saturday.
Scroll down for all of our predictions, poll and stats for the Shanghai Port v Shanghai Shenhua game including the latest game odds.
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Form Guide
Shanghai Port
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Shanghai Port, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 4-3 Super League victory over Shandong Luneng.
In that game, Shanghai Port had 56% possession and 26 attempts at goal with 13 of them on target. For Shanghai Port, the goals were scored by Gustavo (6'), Zhang Linpeng (12' Own goal), Leonardo Cittadini (33') and Wu Lei (54', 73'). On the other side, Shandong Taishan got 16 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Pedro Delgado (23') was the scorer for Shandong Luneng.
At least three goals per game were seen in 5 of the last 6 fixtures where Shanghai Port have been involved. Their opponents scored 7 of them in these games while Shanghai Port totted up 15.
Shanghai Shenhua
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Shanghai Shenhua will come into the encounter following on from a 0-2 Super League win as they beat Nantong Zhiyun in their last match.
In that game, Shanghai Shenhua had 55% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 5 on target. For Shanghai Shenhua, goals were scored by Cephas Malele (3') and Joรฃo Teixeira (82'). For their opponents, Nantong Zhiyun had 12 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target.
In their last 6 outings, Shanghai Shenhua have helped themselves to a tally of 14 goals. Shanghai Shenhua have also managed to score on each one of those occasions. During those fixtures, theyโve seen 3 goals go against them. We will find out whether or not that trend will end up being continued on into this next match.
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Head to head
Inspecting their past head to head clashes going back to 03/11/2021 shows us that Shanghai Port have won 2 of these and Shanghai Shenhua 1, with the number of drawn results being 3.
A sum of 19 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 13 for The Red Eagles and 6 created by Flower of Shanghai. Thatโs an average goals per game figure of 3.17.
The last league meeting featuring the two was Super League match day 19 on 29/07/2023 when it finished Shanghai Shenhua 0-5 Shanghai Port.
On that day, Shanghai Shenhua managed 46% possession and 11 shots on goal with 2 of them on target.
On the other side, Shanghai Port had 11 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. Oscar (42', 66') and Wu Lei (44', 63') scored.
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Team News: Shanghai Port
There arenโt many personnel worries, with just the sole fitness concern for the Shanghai Port boss Kevin Muscat to be concerned with thanks to an otherwise robust squad. Shuai Li (Cervical spine injury) will miss out.
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Team News: Shanghai Shenhua
With a fully injury-free group available to select from, the Shanghai Shenhua boss Leonid Slutskiy doesnโt have any fitness concerns whatsoever before this game.
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Prediction
Looking at these two teams, we feel that Shanghai Shenhua would be disappointed if they were not to find the back of the net against this Shanghai Port lineup, but it possibly wonโt be as many as theyโll concede.
We reckon that it will be a very close game with a 2-1 win for Shanghai Port after 90 minutes. Letโs wait and see how it plays out.
Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Andre Moura,
08:06 24/04/2024
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Shanghai Port
Formed: 2005
Stadium: SAIC Motor Pudong Arena (37,000)
Captain: Oscar dos Santos
Chairman: Zhang Min
Manager: Kevin Muscat
Competitions: Super League position 3