NorthEast United host East Bengal for another intriguing Indian Super League fixture here at Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium.
East Bengal have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1000 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
NorthEast United form and stats
NorthEast United's first Indian Super League home game here at Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium ended in defeat. Last season their home statistics were 3 wins, 2 draws and 5 defeats from 10 matches.
Times are rough for the home team, having gone 225 minutes without scoring a league goal. Sahanek was the last player to find the net.
NorthEast's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-3 versus Hyderabad (placed 1st). NorthEast United's goalkeeper Bhattacharya was extremely busy against Hyderabad, saving the team from a uglier defeat with a stunning seven saves. Bhattacharya, who guards the goal, was given a match rating of 8.4 out of 10 in that game. Bhattacharya saved a penalty.
Prior to that, an away loss at Bengaluru.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does NorthEast handle that role? We have found 4 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat.
NorthEast United has scored {0 goals} so far and conceded {3 goals} from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.
East Bengal form and stats
The visitors' first away game in the Indian Super League ended in defeat. Last season East Bengal had these away match statistics: Played 10; won 1, drew 3 and lost 6.
Home advantage was not enough for East Bengal in their previous game as they lost hosting Goa, 1-2. Late heartbreak for Bengal in the Goa match, as the deciding 1-2 goal came deep into overtime. The attacker Silva got a match rating of 7.44 in that game. Silva scored one goal, hit one key pass and had 19 successful passes (of 23 total).
Prior to that match, the East Bengal manager Constantine faced defeat when travelling to Kerala Blasters and losing 1-3.We have checked recent matches where East Bengal have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 6 games were 0 victories, 3 draws and 3 defeats.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, East Bengal has managed {1 goals} and let in 3 from 1 match.
Head 2 Head
NorthEast have managed a streak of 4 consecutive games without defeat (3-1-0) when playing East Bengal.The games between these sides sometimes lean towards being a bit wild, having seen 2 sending-offs from the last four duels.
NorthEast United missing players
East Bengal missing players
| NorthEast United | East Bengal | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 4.5 | 4 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 8 | 10 |
| 2.5 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 6 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 7 | 6 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 16.5 | 17 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 21 | 16.5 |
| 3.5 | 5 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 10 | 7 |
| NorthEast United | Last season | East Bengal | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 20 | 10 | Played | P | 10 | 20 | ||
| 3 | 3 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 8 | ||
| 12 | 5 | Lost | L | 6 | 11 | ||
| 25 | 14 | Scored | S | 9 | 18 | ||
| 43 | 20 | Conceded | C | 17 | 36 | ||
| 95% | 90% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 90% | 90% | ||
| 90% | 90% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 60% | 70% | ||
| 65% | 70% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 30% | 40% | ||
| 40% | 40% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 20% | 25% | ||
| 35% | 40% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 10% | 10% | ||
| 75% | 60% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 55% | ||
| 10% | 20% | Clean Sheets | C S | 10% | 10% | ||
| 20% | 30% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 45% | ||
| 4.1 | 3.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.4 | 3.6 | ||
| 5.2 | 5.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.9 | 5.7 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 11.3 | 10.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.5 | 9.1 | ||
| 3.6 | 4.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 3 | ||
| 34% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 31% | ||
| 13.5 | 12.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.8 | 11.9 | ||
| 5.5 | 5.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4.2 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Hyderabad | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 2 | Kerala Blasters | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | Odisha FC | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Chennaiyin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Goa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Bengaluru | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Mumbai City | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Jamshedpur | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 9 | ATK Mohun Bagan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 10 | East Bengal | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -3 | 0 |
| 11 | NorthEast United | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -4 | 0 |
| Last season | Total | Home | Away | ||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Jamshedpur | 20 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 42 | 21 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 13 | 21 | 43 |
| 2 | Hyderabad | 20 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 43 | 23 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 22 | 10 | 20 | 38 |
| 3 | ATK Mohun Bagan | 20 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 37 | 26 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 12 | 11 | 37 |
| 4 | Kerala Blasters | 20 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 34 | 24 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 10 | 34 |
| 5 | Mumbai City | 20 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 36 | 31 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 17 | 5 | 31 |
| 6 | Bengaluru | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 32 | 27 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 29 |
| 7 | Odisha FC | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 31 | 43 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 20 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 23 | -12 | 23 |
| 8 | Chennaiyin | 20 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 35 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 14 | -18 | 20 |
| 9 | Goa | 20 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 29 | 35 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 18 | -6 | 19 |
| 10 | NorthEast United | 20 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 25 | 43 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 23 | -18 | 14 |
| 11 | East Bengal | 20 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 18 | 36 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 17 | -18 | 11 |
