Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Chengdu Rongcheng 1st with 21 points, Zibo Sunday 5th with 4, 17 apart. The last five rounds placed Zibo Sunday no better than 29th for form, against 5th in the standings. Against a league average of 1.36 goals per team per game, Zibo Sunday ran at 0.5 scored and 1.8 conceded, Chengdu Rongcheng at 1.9 and 1.
Defeat had not touched Chengdu Rongcheng in 7 games. The five-game form split read 5/15 points for Zibo Sunday against 13/15 for Chengdu Rongcheng.
The match was played at Dalian University Stadium in Dalian (capacity 29,860). On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-0 the final score.