Take a seat, warm your vocal cords with some hot tea because I'm about to give to you the low-down for the looming clash between Shanghai Port and Qingdao West Coast.
When it comes to Qingdao West Coast, it's almost hard to ignore the man between the posts, Xiaotian Shi, with a decent rating and 10 souls crushed with his saves. Meanwhile, for Shanghai Port, it's Junling Yan holding the fort with a rating of 7.00 and 5 saves. The city of Qingdao's hopes will be hung high on Nelson Luz and Indio, the guys with more passes than your girlfriend's shopping receipts.
When we flip the script, Shanghai Port's name on everyone's lips is Wu Lei. The man with 3 goals and smooth as silk passing accuracy. Matías Vargas and Oscar adorn the shiny Port's attacking front as well with their commendable ratings and shot on goal counts.
If history is going to repeat itself, then the last face-off won by Shanghai Port is bound to have an encore. On their regular season records alone, Port's 22-3-1 is like a sword to the Qingdao's 7-7-12. And if you thought that was depressing, just look at their recent results.
Albert’s Prediction: Shanghai Port by 3