Home advantage could prove decisive in ATK Mohun Bagan - Kerala Blasters battle

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Competition: India Indian Super League
Competition: Sat 18.February
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Yuba Bharati Krirangan (120000 seats)

Indian Super League: Two squads in reasonable shape get together for this fixture. Kerala Blasters could have a slight advantage with their 3rd place in the table?

Insights:
  • ATK Mohun Bagan have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in Indian Super League
  • Kerala Blasters haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

There have been little to rest for the team playing at home, as they played a Indian Super League game only four days earlier. That game was an away game at Hyderabad, so at least ATK Mohun Bagan are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

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ATK Mohun Bagan form and stats

18 points is a decent return from 9 Indian Super League games here at Yuba Bharati Krirangan for ATK Mohun Bagan. The data says 6 wins, 0 draws and 3 losses.

Stress levels are on the rise for ATK Mohun Bagan's attacking players as they have now played 180 minutes without scoring in a league game. Petratos was their last goal scorer.

Mohun lost their last game at Hyderabad (placed 2nd) after a 0-1 scoreline. Midfielder Martins was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.84 (out of ten) in that game. Martins hit one key pass.

Preceding that game was the away draw at Jamshedpur that finished 0-0.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how ATK Mohun Bagan have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 11 games) they have won 8 times, drawn 1 and lost 2.

It should be noted that a look at the 13 most recent league games reveals that 11 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the sides scored).

The ATK Mohun Bagan fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 12 in 9 matches. Mohun have only conceded 7 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Kerala Blasters form and stats

The visitors are W3-D1-L5 on the road this term. That's in the Indian Super League. Bitter travels for Kerala Blasters as they have lost four games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Chennaiyin match.

Two away games in a row for Blasters, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 versus Bengaluru.

That result followed a home victory 2-1 versus Chennaiyin.

Kerala Blasters are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats. From a total of 8 matches.

The visitors have scored 8 goals from 9 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. As opposed to that, Blasters have seen the ball go into their own net 12 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

ATK Mohun Bagan have won or drawn the last 5 matches (4-1-0) versus Kerala Blasters.

This isn't the first time these two sides get together this campaign, as the fixture list show this recent game: Kerala Blasters - Mohun 2-5.

Top Goalscorers

Kerala BlastersD. Diamantakos
D. Diamantakos
9 goals
Kerala BlastersA. Luna Retamar
A. Luna Retamar
4 goals
Kerala BlastersI. Kaliuzhnyi
I. Kaliuzhnyi
4 goals

ATK Mohun Bagan missing players

Kerala Blasters missing players

ATK Mohun Bagan Kerala Blasters
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
18 9 2 Played P 3 9 18
8 6 1 Won W 0 3 10
4 0 0 Drew D 0 1 1
6 3 1 Lost L 3 5 7
20 12 1 Scored S 2 8 27
16 7 1 Conceded C 6 12 25
83% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
50% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 56% 72%
39% 44% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 44% 56%
11% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 22% 39%
6% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 11%
33% 44% 0% BTTS BTTS 67% 33% 50%
44% 44% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 28%
39% 11% 50% Failed to Score F T 33% 33% 22%
 
5.4 7 11.5 Corners for (avg) C F 4.7 4.8 5.1
4.9 4.4 5.5 Corners against (avg) C A 5 4.3 4.1
2.1 2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.7 2.3
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
13.2 14.9 16.5 Shots (avg) S ( 8.3 9.2 12.4
5.3 6 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.7 2.6 4.4
21% 22% 10% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 35% 34%
 
11.9 11.1 12 Shots against (avg) S A 14 10 10.3
4.4 3.8 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 3.2 3.4
Key stats in Indian Super League this season:
  • ATK Mohun Bagan have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • ATK Mohun Bagan have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in Indian Super League
  • ATK Mohun Bagan have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • ATK Mohun Bagan haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Kerala Blasters 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 Mumbai City 18 14 4 0 53 18 9 6 3 0 24 6 9 8 1 0 29 12 35 46
2 Hyderabad 18 12 3 3 33 13 9 6 2 1 16 6 9 6 1 2 17 7 20 39
3 Kerala Blasters 18 10 1 7 27 25 9 7 0 2 19 13 9 3 1 5 8 12 2 31
4 ATK Mohun Bagan 18 8 4 6 20 16 9 6 0 3 12 7 9 2 4 3 8 9 4 28
5 Bengaluru 18 9 1 8 22 21 8 5 0 3 9 7 10 4 1 5 13 14 1 28
6 Goa 18 8 3 7 34 30 9 6 0 3 22 14 9 2 3 4 12 16 4 27
7 Odisha FC 18 8 3 7 27 29 9 6 2 1 17 11 9 2 1 6 10 18 -2 27
8 Chennaiyin 18 5 6 7 30 33 9 2 4 3 12 16 9 3 2 4 18 17 -3 21
9 East Bengal 18 5 1 12 21 36 9 2 1 6 10 18 9 3 0 6 11 18 -15 16
10 Jamshedpur 18 3 4 11 16 30 10 1 3 6 9 17 8 2 1 5 7 13 -14 13
11 NorthEast United 18 1 2 15 16 48 9 1 1 7 9 25 9 0 1 8 7 23 -32 5

Read more about Indian Super League

The Indian Super League is one of two top level football leagues in India (the other is I-League). It is officially known as the Hero Indian Super League. The season runs from September to March with ten teams playing two fixtures against each other. The top four teams in the league table enter a championship playoff.