Shijiazhuang Ever Bright FC (1-2-0, 3 points) and Chongqing Lifan FC (1-1-1, 4 points) will look to add to their lone wins of the young 2016 Chinese Super League season as they meet each other on Saturday, April 9th at the Yutong International Sports Center in Hebei, China.

Shijiazhuang will try to bounce back from a crushing 1-3 defeat to the unbeaten Shanghai Greenland Shenhua FC at the Hongkou Stadium in Shanghai last Sunday, via Soccerway.

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Head coach Yasen Petrov's boys saw their net burned to the ground by Senegalese forward Demba Ba, who unleashed a hat trick at the fifth, 43rd, and 58th minutes to hand Ever Bright their second loss of the season.

Local striker Mao Jianqing, who subbed for midfielder Wang Peng at the start of the second half, was able to provide the visitors a consolation goal at the 50th minute but it was all Shijiazhuang could muster in the hard-fought encounter.

Ever Bright midfielder Li Chunyu was sent off at the 81st minute as the team played a man down in the final minutes of the contest, preventing them from pulling off a comeback.

Meanwhile, last season's eight-place finishers Chongqing Lifan kept powerhouse squad Shanghai SIPG without a win in their first three games this season with a 1-1 draw at the Chongqing Olympic Sports Center last Saturday, as reported by Super Sport.

SIPG's local striker Wu Lei netted the opening goal of the match at the 30th minute and last season's runner-up squad looked on its way to its first win of the new season, but the hosts managed to equalize the count nine minutes before the full time whistle via a strike from Brazilian striker Fernandinho from a brilliant assist by fellow import Emanuel Gigliotti of Argentina.

The draw earned Chongqing another point in the overall standings as they are now settled at the no. 8 spot so far.

The predicted result is a close 2-1 win for Chongqing Lifan.

Shijiazhuang Ever Bright starting lineup (5-3-2 formation): Guan; Feng, Jiang, Li Chao, Cho, Mi; Wang, Huang, Micael; Mulenga, Mauricio

Chongqing Lifan starting lineup (4-4-2 formation): Deng; Xu X., Milovic, Luo, Ding; Xu Y., Wang, Jung, Wu; Fernandinho, Gigliotti 

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