📏 Form Guide

Henan Jianye

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Henan Jianye will play in this match following a 0-0 Super League stalemate versus Qingdao Youth Island.

In that match, Henan Jianye managed 55% possession and 7 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. For their opponents, Qingdao West Coast had 6 shots at goal with 1 on target.

Henan Jianye have been quite ineffective in attack in more recent games. Their sum of goals equals just 4 against opposition teams over their previous six fixtures. In those meetings, Henan Jianye have also seen the number of goals that have gone against them come to 6. Regardless, we will just have to wait and see if such a trend shall continue on in this upcoming match.

Shanghai Shenhua

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Shanghai Shenhua come into this meeting following a 2-0 Super League win against Qingdao Hainiu in their previous outing.

In that game, Shanghai Shenhua had 56% possession and 21 shots at goal with 8 of them on target. For Shanghai Shenhua, goals were scored by Teixeira (46') and Makhtar Gueye (52'). For their opponents, Qingdao Hainiu got 10 shots at goal with 3 of them on target.

Looking at their form, and Shanghai Shenhua have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 8 goals overall. At the back, Shanghai Shenhua have seen their frailties exposed.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their past head-to-head meetings going back to 16/09/2023 shows that Henan Jianye have won 1 of these & Shanghai Shenhua 4, with the tally of drawn matches being 1.

There were also plenty of goals scored in those games, 24 overall at an average of 4 goals per match.

The previous league game between these clubs was Super League match day 18 on 27/07/2025 when the final score was Shanghai Shenhua 3-2 Henan Jianye.

That time, Shanghai Shenhua managed 47% possession and 19 shots at goal with 9 on target. The goalscorers were Teixeira (45') and Luis Asué (57').

On the other side, Henan Jianye got 9 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Nazário (45') scored.

💡 Prediction

We’re of the view that Henan Jianye may not find it easy to hit the back of the net against this Shanghai Shenhua outfit who we think will score at least once to put them ahead.

We’re therefore anticipating a hard-fought 0-1 win for Shanghai Shenhua when the referee blows for full-time.

Should be an interesting one.

Renata Leite, 11:03 26/04/2026