Indian Super League: Two squads in decent shape get together for this game. Kerala Blasters hold a small advantage with their 3rd place in the standings?
- Bengaluru haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Kerala Blasters haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Indian Super League game only four days ago.
Bengaluru form and stats
When playing at home in the Indian Super League, Bengaluru have managed 4 wins, 0 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 7 games. The team is doing great wherever they are playing as Bengaluru has won five games in a row. The East Bengal match was the last time out without a victory.
Happy days for Bengaluru in their previous game, a fixture away at ATK Mohun Bagan (placed 5th) that ended with a 2-1 victory. A late climax in the match against ATK Mohun Bagan as the winning goal came one minutes into overtime; scored by Krishna. Midfielder Kumar was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.82 (out of ten) in that game. Kumar hit five key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 38 successful passes (of 43 total).
Ahead of that match, Bengaluru won a home game hosting Chennaiyin (3-1).This is expected to be a close game, with Bengaluru perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Bengaluru as a small favourite), we find 10 games. Bengaluru has won 7 of these, drawn 3 and lost 0.
Goals, goals, goals? Nobody knows the future, but we do know that 8 of the 10 most recent league matches with this club has had three or more goals.
Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Indian Super League game versus Mumbai City in only four days. This game is also played here at Sree Kanteerava Stadium.
Bengaluru has scored 8 league goals at home this season, in 7 matches.
Kerala Blasters form and stats
The visitors are W3-D1-L4 on the road this term. That's in the Indian Super League. Three consecutive losses in away matches means Kerala Blasters are growing more and more desperate for a good performance on the road.
The supporters enjoyed Kerala Blasters's previous game versus Chennaiyin (placed 8th), a 2-1 win played at home. Luna got a match rating of 7.91 in that game, top player of the team. Luna scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times.
Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting East Bengal's place.So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Blasters playing away and similar expectations, we found 14 relevant matches. Results were 3 Kerala Blasters wins, 5 draws and 6 defeats.
11 goals have been conceded by Kerala Blasters in these games.
Head 2 Head
This happened when the sides met previously this campaign; Kerala Blasters - Bengaluru 3-2. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Bengaluru five wins, two draws and Kerala Blasters three victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  D. Diamantakos 9 goals |   F. Hernández González 5 goals | S. Narayanan 4 goals |
Bengaluru missing players
Kerala Blasters missing players
| Bengaluru | Kerala Blasters | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 8 | 17 |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 21 | 8 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 8 | 27 |
| 21 | 7 | 3 | Conceded | C | 5 | 11 | 24 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 65% | 43% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 62% | 76% |
| 53% | 43% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 59% |
| 24% | 29% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 25% | 41% |
| 6% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 41% | 29% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 38% | 53% |
| 24% | 29% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 38% | 29% |
| 35% | 43% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 18% |
| 4.8 | 5.7 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 4.9 | 5.1 |
| 6.5 | 5.1 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.5 | 3.6 | 3.8 |
| 1.4 | 1.1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.6 | 2.2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10.8 | 11.7 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.5 | 8.9 | 12.5 |
| 3.6 | 3.4 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 2.8 | 4.6 |
| 34% | 33% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 36% | 34% |
| 11.1 | 8.3 | 8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12 | 9 | 9.8 |
| 3.6 | 2.1 | 5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 2.9 | 3.3 |
- Bengaluru haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- 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 | 17 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 48 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 9 | 33 | 43 |
| 2 | Hyderabad | 16 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 31 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 21 | 36 |
| 3 | Kerala Blasters | 17 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 27 | 24 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 31 |
| 4 | Goa | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 31 | 25 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 6 | 27 |
| 5 | ATK Mohun Bagan | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 27 |
| 6 | Bengaluru | 17 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 21 | 21 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 0 | 25 |
| 7 | Odisha FC | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 24 | 28 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 18 | -4 | 24 |
| 8 | Chennaiyin | 17 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 28 | 33 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 17 | -5 | 18 |
| 9 | East Bengal | 16 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 18 | 31 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 16 | -13 | 15 |
| 10 | Jamshedpur | 17 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 30 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 13 | -14 | 12 |
| 11 | NorthEast United | 17 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 13 | 45 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 25 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 20 | -32 | 4 |
