Minerva Punjab perform at a high level so far being 2nd in the table. Chennai City can look both up and down from their 6th position.
- All of Chennai City's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Minerva and Chennai City.
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Chennai City, who are travelling more than 2500 kilometers to play this game.
Minerva Punjab form and stats
The story so far in the I-League for Minerva Punjab at their home stadium (Kalyani Stadium) is 1 win, 2 draws and 1 defeat. Minerva have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.
Minerva are returning here after visiting Arrows in a I-League game and winning with a 2-1 scoreline. B. Diawara (2) scored the goal(s). In the preceding match a 2-0 victory visiting TRAU.
Minerva have scored 1 goal here in 4 league matches, a depressing statistic. As for guarding their own goal, Minerva Punjab have only let in 1 goal at home.
Chennai City form and stats
Chennai City have six points from their first three away games in the I-League, meaning two victories and a loss.
Chennai play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-1 victory visiting NEROCA (placed 10th). Preceding that, the 0-4 home loss versus Sudeva.
Chennai have scored 4 goals on their travels this season, from 3 away games in the league. As opposed to that, Chennai have seen the ball go into their own net 4 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last seven matches): Minerva two wins, two draws and Chennai City three victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  C. Gyeltshen 4 goals | P. Babacar Diawara 2 goals | R. Nongrum 1 goals |
Minerva Punjab missing players
Chennai City missing players
| Minerva Punjab | Chennai City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 4 | 2 | Played | P | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 6 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 71% | 50% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 43% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 83% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 67% | 50% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 33% |
| 57% | 75% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 43% | 75% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 50% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.1 | 1.2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.7 | 1.3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5.4 | 5.8 | 7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 7.3 | 7.5 |
| 2.3 | 2 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 3 | 2.5 |
| 50% | 12% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 44% | 33% |
- All of Chennai City's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Chennai City 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 | Churchill Brothers | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| 2 | Minerva Punjab | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 11 |
| 3 | Real Kashmir | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 10 |
| 4 | Mohammedan | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| 5 | TRAU | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| 6 | Chennai City | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | -5 | 9 |
| 7 | Sudeva | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| 8 | Aizawl | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 9 | Gokulam | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| 10 | NEROCA | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | -1 | 5 |
| 11 | Arrows | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 11 | -18 | 1 |