Chennaiyin - East Bengal: Indian Super League cellar dwellers scrapping for points and glory. Here are all the available numbers and tables before the match!
- Chennaiyin have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- East Bengal haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1600 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Indian Super League.
Chennaiyin form and stats
Chennaiyin's struggle is real here at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium with only 7 points collected from 8 Indian Super League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-4-3. The home fans are hungry for more even though Chennaiyin have been steadily collecting points here at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium through three straight draws.
No payout for Chennaiyin in their previous match, an away game at Kerala Blasters that ended in defeat 1-2. Midfield player Khayati got a match rating of 8.04 in that game, the max score being 10. Khayati scored one goal, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 6 times and had 26 successful passes (of 32 total).
In the match before that, Chennaiyin hosted Odisha FC and drew the game 2-2.The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Chennaiyin matches with similar probabilities have ended with 3 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats (from 4 games).
Sports bettors should know that 12 of the most recent 13 league matches from this football club have seen goals scored by both sides.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Chennaiyin as they are travelling to their away game against Goa in the Indian Super League. That match is four days after this one.
Chennaiyin has scored 10 league goals at home this season, in 8 matches.
East Bengal form and stats
Playing away, East Bengal have won 3 games, drawn 0 and suffered 5 defeats in the Indian Super League this season. When East Bengal is visiting a side on the bottom half, they have won 2 of 2 matches. Jamshedpur, NorthEast United and East Bengal is teams we like to compare Chennaiyin with. The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on Constantine, the East Bengal manager, as the last three away games were defeats.
There were no winners in Bengal's previous match, the home game that ended 3-3 vs NorthEast United (placed 11th). As you can tell from the result, the match against NorthEast United was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today? Attacker Silva got a player rating of 8.75 in the game. "Man of the match" Silva scored two goals, hit one key pass and had 27 successful passes (of 32 total).
That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus Kerala Blasters.Looking at the earlier recent performances of East Bengal when being an outsider away as they are today, we find 5 matches with the visitors losing 3 times, drawing 1 and winning 1 game.
Bengal have scored 11 goals on their travels this season, from 8 away games in the league. When East Bengal is visiting a side on the bottom half, 2 of 2 matches have ended with three or more goals. These are matches against Jamshedpur, NorthEast United and East Bengal.
Head 2 Head
Chennaiyin have not lost in the last 5 games (1-4-0) against East Bengal.Chennaiyin and East Bengal have faced each other already this season: East Bengal - Chennaiyin 0-1. The matches between these teams have had a tendency to be hot-tempered, having seen 3 red cards from the last five encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  A. El Khayati 9 goals |  P. Slišković 8 goals |  V. Barretto 3 goals |
Chennaiyin missing players
East Bengal missing players
| Chennaiyin | East Bengal | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 8 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 8 | 17 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | 4 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 5 | 11 |
| 28 | 10 | 3 | Scored | S | 6 | 11 | 21 |
| 33 | 16 | 1 | Conceded | C | 2 | 16 | 34 |
| 94% | 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 88% | 88% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 88% | 82% |
| 65% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 62% | 65% |
| 47% | 50% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 62% | 41% |
| 18% | 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 18% |
| 82% | 75% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 62% | 59% |
| 12% | 12% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 12% | 12% |
| 12% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 29% |
| 5.4 | 4.4 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 4.9 | 4.9 |
| 4.2 | 4.9 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 6 | 6.4 |
| 1.5 | 2.1 | 4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 2 | 2.5 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 11.3 | 11 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12 | 9.2 | 8.5 |
| 4.4 | 4.4 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 3.9 | 3.2 |
| 38% | 29% | 75% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 55% | 35% | 39% |
| 10.9 | 11.5 | 13 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17.5 | 15.2 | 14.5 |
| 5.1 | 5.4 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 6 | 5.2 |
- Chennaiyin have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- 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 | 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 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 21 | 34 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 16 | -13 | 16 |
| 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 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 16 | 48 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 25 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 23 | -32 | 5 |
