Football betting preview: Mumbai City the front runner when Kerala Blasters pay a visit

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Competition: India Indian Super League
Competition: Sun 08.January
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Mumbai Football Arena (18000 seats)

Buckle up for a show! The starring heroes are Mumbai City and Kerala Blasters, victory is the main plot and 1 1/2 hours the duration.

Insights:
  • Mumbai City have the most scored goals (36) in Indian Super League
  • Kerala Blasters have the most dropped points from leading position (8) in Indian Super League

This promises to be an interesting match with lots of action and excitement as both contenders are well refreshed since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

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Mumbai City form and stats

Mumbai City are steadily winning Indian Super League games and points here at Mumbai Football Arena. 4 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats is the summary from 6 games. The team is doing great wherever they are playing as Mumbai City has won seven games in a row. The ATK Mohun Bagan match was the last time out without a victory.

A strong away win for Mumbai City against Odisha FC the last match, as Singh, Chhangte (2) and Noguera were on target. A goal frenzy last time out for Mumbai City, with a total of 6 goals in the match against Odisha FC. Fun stuff to watch! Midfield player Chhangte got a match rating of 9.85 in that game, the max score being 10. Chhangte scored two goals, served one assist and hit three key passes.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Chennaiyin in a game that was won 2-1.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Mumbai's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played 7 games, won 2 matches, drawn 0 and lost 5.

Goal fest? Nobody knows what will happen in this one, but we do know that 8 of the 10 most recent league matches with this club has had three goals or more.

Goals decide football matches and Mumbai City are scoring many of them at home; 15 on target from 6 league matches. Mumbai City are not conceding a lot of goals here at Mumbai Football Arena in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 5 from 6 matches.

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Kerala Blasters form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Indian Super League travels is 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat.

The followers enjoyed Kerala Blasters's previous game versus Jamshedpur (placed 10th), a 3-1 win played at home. Diamantakos, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.4. Diamantakos scored one goal, served one assist, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 35 successful passes (of 40 total).

Prior to that match, a home win 1-0 against Odisha FC.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Blasters when being an outsider away as they are today, we find 5 matches with the visitors losing 4 times, drawing 0 and winning 1 game.

Kerala Blasters are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 7 away goals from 5 games (in the league). Kerala Blasters are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 3 times in 5 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Uncannily enough, Kerala Blasters have scored in every league game they've played since NOT scoring against today's home team; the Kerala Blasters - Mumbai City 0-2 game nine game weeks ago. Mumbai-Kerala Blasters H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Mumbai City five wins, Kerala Blasters three wins, two draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Mumbai CityL. Chhangte
L. Chhangte
7 goals
Mumbai CityJ. Pereyra Díaz
J. Pereyra Díaz
6 goals
Kerala BlastersD. Diamantakos
D. Diamantakos
6 goals

Mumbai City missing players

Kerala Blasters missing players

Mumbai City Kerala Blasters
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
12 6 0 Played P 1 5 12
9 4 0 Won W 1 3 8
3 2 0 Drew D 0 1 1
0 0 0 Lost L 0 1 3
36 15 0 Scored S 1 7 22
13 5 0 Conceded C 0 3 15
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
100% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 60% 75%
75% 67% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 40% 58%
58% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 42%
33% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 17%
67% 67% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 58%
33% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 60% 33%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 8%
 
5.2 5 0 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4.2 4.9
5.7 7 0 Corners against (avg) C A 9 4.6 4.1
1.8 2.2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4 2.4 2.2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
14.2 12.7 0 Shots (avg) S ( 9 8.4 12.3
7.5 6.5 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 3.4 5.1
40% 38% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 41% 36%
 
9.5 9.5 0 Shots against (avg) S A 12 8.6 9.2
3.3 3.3 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 2.4 3.1
Key stats in Indian Super League this season:
  • All of Mumbai City's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Kerala Blasters have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
  • Kerala Blasters have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Kerala Blasters have the most dropped points from leading position (8) in Indian Super League
  • Kerala Blasters haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Mumbai City have not yet lost a game.
  • Mumbai City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Mumbai City have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Kerala Blasters have scored away.
  • Mumbai City have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Mumbai City have the most scored goals (36) in Indian Super League
  • Mumbai City have the most scored goals in the first half (15) in Indian Super League
  • Mumbai City have the most scored goals in the second half (21) in Indian Super League
  • Mumbai City have the the best goal difference (+10) at home in Indian Super League
  • Mumbai City have the the best goal difference (+23) in Indian Super League
  • Mumbai City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Mumbai City is in the best form (6-0-0) in Indian Super League

  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 12 9 3 0 36 13 6 4 2 0 15 5 6 5 1 0 21 8 23 30
2 Hyderabad 12 9 1 2 24 7 7 5 1 1 14 5 5 4 0 1 10 2 17 28
3 Kerala Blasters 12 8 1 3 22 15 7 5 0 2 15 12 5 3 1 1 7 3 7 25
4 ATK Mohun Bagan 12 7 2 3 17 12 6 5 0 1 9 4 6 2 2 2 8 8 5 23
5 Goa 12 6 1 5 20 16 5 4 0 1 11 3 7 2 1 4 9 13 4 19
6 Odisha FC 12 6 1 5 17 19 6 4 1 1 10 8 6 2 0 4 7 11 -2 19
7 Chennaiyin 11 4 2 5 21 23 6 1 2 3 8 14 5 3 0 2 13 9 -2 14
8 East Bengal 11 4 0 7 13 20 5 1 0 4 5 11 6 3 0 3 8 9 -7 12
9 Bengaluru 12 3 1 8 8 17 5 2 0 3 2 5 7 1 1 5 6 12 -9 10
10 Jamshedpur 12 1 2 9 9 22 6 1 1 4 6 10 6 0 1 5 3 12 -13 5
11 NorthEast United 12 1 0 11 10 33 6 1 0 5 6 19 6 0 0 6 4 14 -23 3

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.