Very important shoot-out in the bottom part of the Indian Super League, with both East Bengal and NorthEast United suffering more stress than bliss. This match is a classic "six-pointer" with the home side positioned 9th and the visitors in 11th place.
- East Bengal have the fewest scored goals (7) at home in Indian Super League
- NorthEast United have the fewest scored goals (13) 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 1000 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
The visiting NorthEast United played their last game only four days ago, a Indian Super League match.
East Bengal form and stats
With 2 Indian Super League wins, 0 draws and 6 defeats from their home games, East Bengal are certainly not brimming with confidence.
A nice win for East Bengal last time playing, versus Kerala Blasters. That was also a home game and the match ended 1-0 with Silva scoring for the victors. Finally, a league victory after four fixtures without. The goalie Singh was named most valuable player of the team in that game, scoring 8.0 out of ten. Singh topped it up with a clean sheet.
A defeat was the result before that one, 2-4 away at Goa.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Bengal 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 0 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat.
The manager Constantine will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Chennaiyin in only four days.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for East Bengal here at Yuba Bharati Krirangan in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (7 from 8 games). East Bengal have conceded 15 from these games.
NorthEast United form and stats
Playing away, NorthEast United, who have the fewest scored goals (13) in Indian Super League, have won 0 games, drawn 0 and suffered 8 defeats in the Indian Super League this season. Bitter travels for NorthEast as they have lost eight games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Bengaluru match.
NorthEast United are looking to quickly end their 289 minutes long goal drought in the Indian Super League.
NorthEast United failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Jamshedpur (placed 10th) that ended with defeat 0-2. Attacker Mbombo got a player rating of 7.31 in the game. "Man of the match" Mbombo hit the woodwork once, hit three key passes and had 20 successful passes (of 23 total).
A 0-2 defeat away at Kerala Blasters before that.We have checked recent matches where NorthEast have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 5 games were 0 victories, 2 draws and 3 defeats.
Goal-happy betting people should observe that 10 of this side's 13 latest league matches have ended with three goals or more.
NorthEast United are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed {4 goals} from 8 away games. NorthEast United have conceded 20 goals in these games. It's worth mentioning that 12 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.
Head 2 Head
The duelists have played earlier this season: NorthEast United - Bengal 1-3. H2H stats regardless of arena (last five matches): East Bengal one win, one draw and NorthEast United three victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  W. Jordán Gil 5 goals |  R. Rochharzela 2 goals |
East Bengal missing players
NorthEast United missing players
| East Bengal | NorthEast United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 8 | 17 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 8 | 15 |
| 18 | 7 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 4 | 13 |
| 31 | 15 | 3 | Conceded | C | 1 | 20 | 45 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 81% | 75% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 75% | 82% |
| 62% | 62% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 62% | 71% |
| 38% | 12% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 35% |
| 12% | 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 12% |
| 56% | 50% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 53% |
| 12% | 12% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 6% |
| 31% | 38% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 50% | 41% |
| 4.8 | 4.6 | 3.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 3.9 | 3.2 |
| 6.4 | 6.8 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 6 | 5 |
| 2.4 | 2.9 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 2.2 | 2.3 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8.6 | 8 | 7.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 7.6 | 8 |
| 3 | 2.1 | 1.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 2.6 | 2.6 |
| 38% | 41% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 19% | 30% |
| 14.5 | 13.8 | 11.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9 | 16.9 | 15.9 |
| 5.2 | 4.5 | 2.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 6.5 | 7.1 |
- East Bengal have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
- East Bengal have the fewest scored goals (7) at home in Indian Super League
- East Bengal haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- NorthEast United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- NorthEast United have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- NorthEast United have lost all their away matches so far.
- NorthEast United have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Indian Super League
- NorthEast United have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Indian Super League
- NorthEast United have the fewest points (0) away in Indian Super League
- NorthEast United have the fewest scored goals (13) in Indian Super League
- NorthEast United have the fewest scored goals (4) away in Indian Super League
- NorthEast United have the fewest scored goals in the first half (4) in Indian Super League
- NorthEast United have the most conceded goals (20) away in Indian Super League
- NorthEast United have the most conceded goals (45) in Indian Super League
- NorthEast United have the most conceded goals in the first half (23) in Indian Super League
- NorthEast United have the most conceded goals in the second half (22) in Indian Super League
- NorthEast United have the the worst goal difference (-16) away in Indian Super League
- NorthEast United have the the worst goal difference (-32) in Indian Super League
- NorthEast United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- NorthEast United is in the worst form (0-1-5)
| 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 | 17 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 48 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 9 | 33 | 43 |
| 2 | Hyderabad | 16 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 31 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 21 | 36 |
| 3 | Kerala Blasters | 16 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 25 | 23 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 28 |
| 4 | ATK Mohun Bagan | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 27 |
| 5 | Goa | 16 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 30 | 24 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 6 | 26 |
| 6 | Odisha FC | 16 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 23 | 27 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 18 | -4 | 23 |
| 7 | Bengaluru | 16 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 19 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 13 | -1 | 22 |
| 8 | Chennaiyin | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 27 | 31 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 15 | -4 | 18 |
| 9 | East Bengal | 16 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 18 | 31 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 16 | -13 | 15 |
| 10 | Jamshedpur | 17 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 30 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 13 | -14 | 12 |
| 11 | NorthEast United | 17 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 13 | 45 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 25 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 20 | -32 | 4 |
