East Bengal will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 1 point behind Churchill Brothers.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Churchill Brothers, who are travelling more than 2100 kilometers to play this game.
East Bengal form and stats
East Bengal's results here in the I-League have been very modest with 1 victory, 2 draws and 3 defeats.
A strong away win for East Bengal against TRAU the last match, as Marc Jiménez, B. Vanlalremdika, Jaime Santos and K. Aidara were on target. Before that match, a win away at Arrows.
As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?
East Bengal are traveling soon after this match as the I-League match at Gokulam awaits in three days.
East Bengal aren't scoring a lot here in the league, with only 5 goals from 6 games. 8 goals have been conceded.
Churchill Brothers form and stats
Things could have gone better for Churchill Brothers in their I-League away matches, but 4 points from 3 games is all right.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a I-League home defeat versus Mohun Bagan with 0-3 on the scoreboard. A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Real Kashmir.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Churchill Brothers manager F. Bernardo Tavares as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against TRAU.
Churchill Brothers have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 6 goals from 3 away matches. In the opposite end, Churchill Brothers have conceded 5 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
Churchill Brothers - East Bengal 1-0 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three East Bengal victories, three draws and four Churchill Brothers wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  W. Plaza 21 goals |
East Bengal missing players
Churchill Brothers missing players
| East Bengal | Churchill Brothers | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 12 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 20 | 5 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 6 | 21 |
| 16 | 8 | 1 | Conceded | C | 1 | 5 | 17 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 77% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 67% | 83% |
| 46% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 67% | 83% |
| 31% | 17% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 67% | 25% |
| 15% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 33% | 17% |
| 69% | 67% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 67% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 23% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 33% | 17% |
| 6.3 | 7.2 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7 | 5.3 | 4.5 |
| 4.1 | 3.8 | 12 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 4.7 | 5.1 |
| 1.6 | 1.2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.7 | 1.5 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 122 | 57 | 10 | Total Shots | T S | 13 | 33 | 122 |
| 54 | 22 | 3 | Shots on Target | S O | 6 | 18 | 59 |
| 33% | 14% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 33% | 29% |
- Churchill Brothers has the fewest matches under the total-line (3)
- Churchill Brothers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- East Bengal has the fewest clean sheets (1)
- East Bengal have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- East Bengal haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Mohun Bagan | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 30 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 19 | 32 |
| 2 | Minerva Punjab | 13 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 18 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 21 |
| 3 | Churchill Brothers | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 21 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 19 |
| 4 | East Bengal | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 18 |
| 5 | Real Kashmir | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 18 |
| 6 | Gokulam | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 17 |
| 7 | Chennai City | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | -3 | 16 |
| 8 | TRAU | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 16 | -10 | 16 |
| 9 | Aizawl | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | -1 | 15 |
| 10 | NEROCA | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 21 | 29 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 20 | -8 | 15 |
| 11 | Arrows | 13 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | -10 | 8 |