| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wuhan Yangtze | 15 | W1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7/15 | 9-4 |
| Shanghai Shenxin | 15 | L2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 9/15 | 9-9 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 2 finished meetings (2013-06-26 – 2018-03-11) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-03-11 | Shanghai Shenxin | 0-1 | Wuhan Yangtze |
| 2013-06-26 | Shanghai Shenxin | 1-0 | Wuhan Yangtze |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wuhan Yangtze | 1 | 30 | 62 | 34 | DDWWW | 3 | -2 |
| Shanghai Shenxin | 11 | 30 | 37 | -8 | WWLLL | 9 | +2 |
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 2018-07-28
On paper the standings were lopsided — Wuhan Yangtze 1st with 62 points, Shanghai Shenxin 11th with 37, 25 apart. Against a league average of 1.4 goals per team per game, Wuhan Yangtze ran at 1.97 scored and 0.83 conceded, Shanghai Shenxin at 1.23 and 1.5.
Zhongnan University Stadium in Wuhan hosted the game. Half-time and full-time told different stories: Shanghai Shenxin led 1-0 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 2-1.
