| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cangzhou | 15 | W3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9/15 | 8-7 |
| Xinjiang Tianshan | 15 | L1 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 6/15 | 11-14 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 2 finished meetings (2018-05-20 – 2018-10-20) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-20 | Xinjiang Tianshan | 1-3 | Cangzhou |
| 2018-05-20 | Cangzhou | 3-1 | Xinjiang Tianshan |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cangzhou | 2 | 30 | 56 | 17 | LWWWW | 2 | 0 |
| Xinjiang Tianshan | 14 | 30 | 31 | -19 | WLLDL | 13 | +1 |
Form rank = league-wide rank by points from the last 5 league games; "Form vs pos" > 0 means over-performing the table.
Figures computed from the GioScore results database · data cutoff: kickoff 2019-11-02
25 points separated the sides: Cangzhou 2nd on 56, Xinjiang Tianshan 14th on 31. Scoring rates set the scale: Cangzhou 1.97 scored and 1.4 conceded per game, Xinjiang Tianshan 1.27 and 1.9, with the league averaging 1.45.
Cangzhou entered with three wins in a row.
Hebei Olympic Sports Center in Shijiazhuang, capacity 60,000, hosted the game. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 2-0.
