Match Report
GioScore's database holds 5 meetings between the two: 3 for Guangzhou Evergrande, 1 for Shandong Taishan and 1 drawn, at 2 goals per meeting. This has been a host's fixture — the home side won 80% of the meetings. The fixture leans high-scoring: 60% of meetings brought at least three goals, and both sides scored in 60%.
With 14 matches recorded and 1.4 yellow cards per game, Z. Shi was the man in the middle. Tianhe Stadium in Canton staged the fixture, a ground that holds 60,151. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 2-2 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 2-4.