The visitors will be hoping that their change in leadership can help them turn their season around, but following two crucial away wins, the hosts come into this match with their tails up and will be expecting nothing less than all three points. It should be an intriguing contest, but we fancy the home team to get the job done here.
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Data Analysis
Our analysis of all available data, including recent performances and player stats up until an hour before kickoff, suggested the most likely outcome of this match was a Shanghai Shenhua win with a probability of 41.06%. A win for Nantong Zhiyun had a probability of 30.22% and a draw had a probability of 28.7%.
The most likely scoreline for a Shanghai Shenhua win was 1-0 with a probability of 13.19%. The next most likely scorelines for that outcome were 2-1 (8.09%) and 2-0 (8.06%). The likeliest Nantong Zhiyun win was 0-1 (10.85%), while for a drawn scoreline it was 1-1 (13.24%). The actual scoreline of 1-0 was predicted with a 13.2% likelihood. Our data analysis correctly predicted a 1-0 win for Shanghai Shenhua in this match and our team at Sports Mole correctly predicted the win for Shanghai Shenhua.
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