It's only the second fixture in the Premier League for these squads. and it's all to play for here at Mong Kok Stadium as Eastern host Rangers. Check out this preview!
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.
Eastern form and stats
The previous season, Eastern's league statistics were 9 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss, results that produced 2nd position in the Premier League. In these 14 matches they scored 33 goals and gave away 12. Performing at home in the previous season Eastern generated 4-2-1 (win-draw-lost) with 14 goals and 7 conceded.
F. A. Azevedo Pedreira was the last player to score a league goal for Eastern and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Eastern haven't scored in 186 minutes.
Eastern are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-1 away versus Kitchee.
Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Tainan City.The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Eastern home games with this odds we find two games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in two wins, zero draws and zero defeats. Looking at the victories, one match were won by at least two goals.
Rangers form and stats
Let's have a look at how Rangers performed last season in the First Division: They landed a 7th position in the league table after playing out 2 victories, 5 draws and 7 defeats. In total they scored 14 and conceded 23 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 1 - drew 3 and lost 3 with 9/13 goals scored/conceded. A perfect away game record so far for the visitors in the Premier League, but they have only played once. Last season their away game stats were 1 win, 0 draws and 0 defeats from 1 matches.
Two travels in a row for Rangers, whose manager C. Chiu could celebrate last time after the Premier League win against Tai Chung. Rangers can call themselves comeback kings after the match against Tai Chung. Buried deep in trouble at 0-3, the troops rallied and completely turned the match around to a 5-3 victory. Estiven Sarria scored the final goal. As you can tell from the result, the match against Tai Chung was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 8 goals, will the fun continue today?
Ahead of that game was the 3-3 draw at home against Happy Valley.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Rangers played away with similar odds. This revealed one game. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, zero were draws and the home team won as expected one time.
Rangers have the goal stats of 5-3 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the former seven meetings featuring these two contenders are: four wins for Eastern, one draw and two wins for Rangers. Over 2,5 goals: four times; under 2,5 goals: three games.Eastern missing players
Rangers missing players
| Eastern | Rangers | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 14 | 14 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| Eastern | Last season | Rangers | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 17 | 8 | Played | P | 8 | 17 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 3 | 7 | ||
| 38 | 18 | Scored | S | 15 | 25 | ||
| 16 | 7 | Conceded | C | 13 | 28 | ||
| 94% | 88% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 88% | 88% | ||
| 82% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 88% | 76% | ||
| 65% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 65% | ||
| 47% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 47% | ||
| 29% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 18% | ||
| 53% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 62% | 59% | ||
| 35% | 38% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 24% | ||
| 18% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 29% | ||
| 5.7 | 6.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.9 | 5 | ||
| 4.2 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.6 | 7.2 | ||
| 1.9 | 2.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2.3 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 12 | 12.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.6 | 8.5 | ||
| 5.8 | 6.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 4.1 | ||
| 40% | 34% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 44% | 36% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Kitchee | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 |
| 2 | Southern District | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | Rangers | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Warriors | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Eastern | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 6 | Tai Chung | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 7 | Hong Kong FC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 0 |
| 8 | HK U23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | -6 | 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 | Kitchee | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 37 |
| 2 | Eastern | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 34 |
| 3 | Warriors | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 30 |
| 4 | Pegasus | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -7 | 28 |