Kerala Blasters have travelled here for an absorbing game against the home team East Bengal. Get ready for the match with this thorough Indian Super League preview!
- Kerala Blasters have the most scored goals in the second half (7) in Indian Super League
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
East Bengal form and stats
East Bengal have collected 4 points from their Indian Super League home games so far after 1-1-1.
The East Bengal club members got no joy from their last match, also played here at Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan Stadium: A 1-2 defeat against Goa (placed 1st).
Heartbreak before that as Bengal lost 1-2 at Bengaluru's place.Early season league goal statistics from East Bengal's 3 home games: {3 goals}, 3 conceded.
Kerala Blasters form and stats
The visitors' first away game in the Indian Super League ended in defeat. Last season Kerala Blasters had these away match statistics: Played 10; won 3, drew 1 and lost 6.
Diamantakos and Luna scored in Kerala Blasters's previous match, the home game against Odisha FC that ended 2-1. The attacker Luna got a match rating of 8.84 in that game. Luna scored one goal, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times and had 42 successful passes (of 51 total).
Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against NorthEast United.Kerala Blasters have the goal stats of 1-2 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last six matches): East Bengal one win, three draws and Kerala Blasters two victories. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Luna Retamar 3 goals | D. Farooq Bhat 2 goals |  D. Diamantakos 1 goals |
East Bengal missing players
Kerala Blasters missing players
| East Bengal | Kerala Blasters | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 5 | 3 | 2 | Conceded | C | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 75% | 67% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 75% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 80% |
| 75% | 67% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 60% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 75% | 67% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 80% |
| 25% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 25% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 4.8 | 4.3 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 9 | 9 | 6 |
| 5 | 5.7 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 9 | 9 | 5 |
| 2 | 1.7 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 5 | 5 | 2.4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 10.8 | 9 | 4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 11 | 12 |
| 2.8 | 2.3 | 1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4 | 3.4 |
| 36% | 43% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 25% | 41% |
| 8 | 9 | 13 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9 | 9 | 8.6 |
| 3.2 | 3.7 | 7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 5 | 3.8 |
- Kerala Blasters have the most scored goals in the second half (7) in Indian Super League
| East Bengal | Last season | Kerala Blasters | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 20 | 10 | Played | P | 11 | 21 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Won | W | 3 | 10 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | ||
| 13 | 7 | Lost | L | 6 | 9 | ||
| 22 | 10 | Scored | S | 9 | 28 | ||
| 38 | 20 | Conceded | C | 14 | 28 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 95% | ||
| 80% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 55% | 67% | ||
| 55% | 60% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 45% | 52% | ||
| 35% | 20% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 18% | 33% | ||
| 15% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 10% | ||
| 50% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 48% | ||
| 15% | 10% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 29% | ||
| 35% | 40% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 29% | ||
| 4.5 | 4.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.4 | 4.6 | ||
| 6.7 | 7.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.6 | 4.5 | ||
| 2.4 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.3 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 8.4 | 7.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.4 | 11.9 | ||
| 3.1 | 2.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.4 | 4 | ||
| 35% | 42% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 34% | ||
| 14.8 | 14.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.2 | 10.3 | ||
| 5.2 | 4.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 3.3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Goa | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| 2 | Kerala Blasters | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| 3 | ATK Mohun Bagan | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 4 | NorthEast United | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 5 | Mumbai City | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| 6 | Jamshedpur | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -1 | 5 |
| 7 | Odisha FC | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 4 |
| 8 | East Bengal | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 4 |
| 9 | Bengaluru | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -1 | 4 |
| 10 | Chennaiyin | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -6 | 3 |
| 11 | Minerva Punjab | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 2 |
| 12 | Hyderabad | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -3 | 1 |
