Match Report
51 points separated the sides: Shanghai Port 1st on 63, Shenzhen 16th on 12. On recent form Shanghai Port sat only 8th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 1st overall. Against a league average of 1.39 goals per team per game, Shenzhen ran at 0.73 scored and 2.63 conceded, Shanghai Port at 2.03 and 1.
The last-five ledger: Shenzhen 5/15, Shanghai Port 12/15.
The head-to-head ledger counts 4 games: 0 Shenzhen wins, 4 for Shanghai Port, 0 draws, at 4.5 goals per meeting. Home advantage is real in this fixture: whoever hosted won 75% of the meetings. The fixture leans high-scoring: 100% of meetings brought at least three goals.
Shenzhen Bao'an Stadium in Shenzhen staged the fixture, a ground that holds 40,000. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 1-1 at the break, before 3 more goals closed it at 1-4.