East Bengal are trusting their home following to aid them in this meeting hosting Bengaluru. Who triumphs at Tilak Maidan Stadium?
- East Bengal have the fewest points (5) at home in Indian Super League
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 2100 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
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.
East Bengal form and stats
With 0 Indian Super League wins, 5 draws and 4 defeats from their home games, East Bengal are certainly not brimming with confidence. East Bengal are slowly digging their own grave here at Tilak Maidan Stadium with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in nine attempts. The last victory here came in the Jamshedpur match.
Bengal drew their last game, also a home match. NorthEast United (placed 10th) was the opponent, 1-1 the score. Bernad, an attacker, was the champion player for the team in that match, and was presented with a rating of 8.04 (out of 10). Bernad hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 33 successful passes (of 38 total).
A defeat was the result before that one, 0-1 away at Mumbai City.East Bengal has scored 9 goals so far and conceded 18 goals from 9 home games. These are numbers from the league only.
Bengaluru form and stats
As the visiting team in Indian Super League matches, Bengaluru have produced an overall stat of 3-1-5 so far. Bengaluru has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.
Two away games in a row for Bengaluru, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-2 versus ATK Mohun Bagan. Silva, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.14. Silva hit two key passes.
That result followed a home victory 2-1 versus Odisha FC.Bengaluru are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 11 away goals from 9 games (in the league). As opposed to that, Bengaluru have seen the ball go into their own net 12 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have battled earlier this season: Bengaluru - Bengal 1-1. Head-to-head statistics (for the prior ten meetings): East Bengal won four games, one match ended with a tie and Bengaluru got five wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / fiveTop Goalscorers
  C. Oliveira Silva 9 goals |   A. Perošević 4 goals | P. Ibara Doniama 4 goals |
East Bengal missing players
Bengaluru missing players
| East Bengal | Bengaluru | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 9 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 19 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 8 | 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 18 | 9 | 2 | Scored | S | 6 | 11 | 31 |
| 35 | 18 | 3 | Conceded | C | 6 | 12 | 27 |
| 89% | 89% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 89% | 95% |
| 74% | 89% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 84% |
| 42% | 56% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 56% | 63% |
| 26% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 22% | 32% |
| 11% | 11% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 11% | 16% |
| 58% | 67% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 44% | 68% |
| 11% | 11% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 21% |
| 42% | 33% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 16% |
| 3.5 | 3.7 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7.7 | 6.2 | 5.2 |
| 5.7 | 4.3 | 5.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 1.7 | 3.9 | 4.2 |
| 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4.3 | 2.6 | 2.3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 8.6 | 9.9 | 8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.3 | 12.3 | 10.4 |
| 2.8 | 3.2 | 2.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.2 | 3.8 |
| 33% | 31% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 29% | 42% |
| 12.2 | 11.6 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9 | 9.2 | 9.2 |
| 4.3 | 4.1 | 2.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.3 | 3.8 |
- East Bengal have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- East Bengal have the fewest points (5) at home in Indian Super League
- East Bengal have yet to win a game at home.
| 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 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 36 | 20 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 13 | 16 | 37 |
| 2 | Hyderabad | 19 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 41 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 22 | 10 | 19 | 35 |
| 3 | ATK Mohun Bagan | 18 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 36 | 25 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 12 | 11 | 34 |
| 4 | Mumbai City | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 34 | 26 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 12 | 8 | 31 |
| 5 | Kerala Blasters | 18 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 27 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 30 |
| 6 | Bengaluru | 19 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 31 | 27 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 26 |
| 7 | Odisha FC | 19 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 30 | 38 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 20 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 18 | -8 | 23 |
| 8 | Chennaiyin | 19 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 34 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 20 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 14 | -17 | 20 |
| 9 | Goa | 19 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 25 | 31 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 18 | -6 | 18 |
| 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 | 19 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 18 | 35 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 17 | -17 | 11 |
