AFC Champions League match preview: Mumbai City versus Nassaji Mazandaran

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Competition: Asia AFC Champions League
Competition: Mon 18.Sep
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex (15000 seats)

This promises to be an action-packed encounter for Mumbai City at Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex when the AFC Champions League tournament arrives in town and Nassaji Mazandaran with it. Read all about the Group Stage match here!

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Mumbai City form and stats

Mumbai City are steadily winning Indian Super League games and points here at Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex. 6 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat is the summary from 10 games.

The home club members saw a 0-0 draw against Nassaji Mazandaran in the AFC Champions League last time out and are looking for a win here.

Ahead of that match, a home victory against Chennaiyin in the Hero Super Cup. The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Mumbai City have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 8 matches with the results: Won 4, drawn 2 and lost 2.

Goals decide football matches and Mumbai are scoring many of them at home; 24 on target from 10 league matches. Mumbai City are not conceding a lot of goals here at Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 10 matches.

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Nassaji Mazandaran form and stats

Playing away, Nassaji Mazandaran have won 0 games, drawn 1 and suffered 0 defeats in the Persian Gulf Pro League this season.

It's another away match for the visitors, as they travelled to Mumbai City in their previous outing. The AFC Champions League fixture ended 0-0.

That result followed a home victory 3-1 versus Sanat Naft in the Persian Gulf Pro League.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Nassaji Mazandaran playing away and similar expectations, we found 11 relevant matches. Results were 0 Nassaji Mazandaran wins, 4 draws and 7 defeats.

Nassaji Mazandaran have the goal stats of 1-1 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.

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Top Goalscorers

Nassaji MazandaranV. Mohammadzadeh
V. Mohammadzadeh
1 goals
Nassaji MazandaranM. Azadi
M. Azadi
1 goals
Nassaji MazandaranF. Esmaeili
F. Esmaeili
1 goals

Mumbai City missing players

Nassaji Mazandaran missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Mumbai City Nassaji Mazandaran
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 14   Played P   12 25
17 8   Won W   0 4
4 4   Drew D   5 10
4 2   Lost L   7 11
57 27   Scored S   5 21
23 9   Conceded C   19 34
96% 93%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   83% 88%
80% 71%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   58% 68%
64% 50%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   33% 40%
36% 36%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   25% 24%
16% 7%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   0% 0%
56% 43%   BTTS BTTS   33% 48%
36% 43%   Clean Sheets C S   17% 16%
12% 21%   Failed to Score F T   67% 48%
 
5.2 5   Corners for (avg) C F   2.2 1.7
5.4 4.9   Corners against (avg) C A   5.2 2.8
1.6 1.8   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.3 0.7
0 0   Red cards R C   0 0
 
13.6 12.6   Shots (avg) S (   3.6 2.7
6.4 5.4   Shots on Target (avg) S O   1.5 1
36% 36%   Goal Efficiency G E   31% 86%
 
10.9 9   Shots against (avg) S A   9.5 5.5
3.6 2.9   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   5.1 2.9

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Mumbai City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Al Hilal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Navbahor 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Nassaji Mazandaran 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Mumbai City 20 14 4 2 54 21 10 6 3 1 24 7 10 8 1 1 30 14 33 46
2 Hyderabad 20 13 3 4 36 16 10 6 2 2 18 9 10 7 1 2 18 7 20 42
3 ATK Mohun Bagan 20 10 4 6 24 17 10 7 0 3 14 8 10 3 4 3 10 9 7 34
4 Bengaluru 20 11 1 8 27 23 10 7 0 3 14 9 10 4 1 5 13 14 4 34
5 Kerala Blasters 20 10 1 9 28 28 10 7 0 3 19 14 10 3 1 6 9 14 0 31
6 Odisha FC 20 9 3 8 30 32 10 6 2 2 17 13 10 3 1 6 13 19 -2 30
7 Goa 20 8 3 9 36 35 10 6 0 4 23 16 10 2 3 5 13 19 1 27
8 Chennaiyin 20 7 6 7 36 37 10 3 4 3 16 19 10 4 2 4 20 18 -1 27
9 Jamshedpur 20 5 4 11 21 32 10 1 3 6 9 17 10 4 1 5 12 15 -11 19
10 East Bengal 20 6 1 13 22 38 10 2 1 7 10 20 10 4 0 6 12 18 -16 19
11 NorthEast United 20 1 2 17 20 55 10 1 1 8 10 28 10 0 1 9 10 27 -35 5
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Persepolis 4 3 1 0 5 1 2 1 1 0 2 1 2 2 0 0 3 0 4 10
2 Esteghlal 4 3 0 1 5 1 2 2 0 0 2 0 2 1 0 1 3 1 4 9
3 Aluminium Arak 4 3 0 1 5 2 2 2 0 0 3 0 2 1 0 1 2 2 3 9
4 Sepahan 4 4 0 0 9 2 2 2 0 0 4 1 2 2 0 0 5 1 7 8
5 Gol Gohar 4 2 2 0 5 1 2 1 1 0 4 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 4 8
6 Tractor Sazi 4 2 0 2 3 4 2 1 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 1 2 3 -1 6
7 Nassaji Mazandaran 4 1 2 1 5 4 3 1 1 1 4 3 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 5
8 Havadar 4 1 2 1 3 3 2 0 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 0 2 1 0 5
9 Zob Ahan 4 1 2 1 3 4 2 0 1 1 0 2 2 1 1 0 3 2 -1 5
10 Malavan 4 1 1 2 6 4 2 1 0 1 5 2 2 0 1 1 1 2 2 4
11 Sanat Naft 4 1 1 2 4 8 2 0 1 1 1 4 2 1 0 1 3 4 -4 4
12 Paykan 4 0 3 1 3 5 2 0 1 1 1 3 2 0 2 0 2 2 -2 3
13 Mes Rafsanjan 4 0 2 2 1 5 2 0 1 1 1 4 2 0 1 1 0 1 -4 2
14 Caspian Qazvin 4 1 1 2 5 5 1 0 0 1 1 2 3 1 1 1 4 3 0 1
15 Esteghlal Khuzestan 4 0 1 3 1 4 2 0 1 1 1 2 2 0 0 2 0 2 -3 1
16 Foolad 4 0 0 4 1 11 2 0 0 2 1 4 2 0 0 2 0 7 -10 0

Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Mumbai City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Al Hilal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Navbahor 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Nassaji Mazandaran 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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