Eastern Bengal meets Chennaiyin FC in the clash of the Super League (ISL) Indians at the Salt Lake stadium in Calcutta on Saturday.
When the tournament enters the home section, both teams are closed at 18 points, but Eastern Bengal is one step in the 10th position with an excellent goal difference, and also has a game in hand. Chennaiyin, during seven matches without a victory, will be willing to ensure victory and maintain small aspirations of the playoffs.
They only have a handful of games to reverse their fortunes, both sides will try to go to a couple to stay in the competition.
In the last seven rounds, Chennaiyin drains from the upper half after four paralysis and managed to draw three. His situation is also reflected in the fact that Chennaiyin has not been able to win with the Calcutta website in the last five meetings.
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Coach Chennaiyin, Owen Coyle, hoped that his team would be able to perform his true potential and regain the winning rhythm at this key moment. A look at previous performances will reveal that Chennaiyin has shot only once in the last three matches. His attack – possession such as Wilmar Jordan Gil, Lukas Brambilla and Irfan Yadwad – flatted out, because until now the team managed to score the fifth goals (24).
The dream of Eastern Bengal about ensuring the first place in the playoffs in ISL suffered a blow when the Oscar side Bruzon content three more losses in previous trips. Since the problems with injuries keep a large part of their foreign conditional inaccessible, Bruzon will have to find the necessary balance that would help find the sixth win of the season.
The team recently added two new names to their offensive composition with the inclusion of the wing Richard Celis from Venezuela and the attacker Raphael Messi Boula from Cameroon, who arrived day before the match.
The duo will probably add strength to the side, which has only two other foreign players in the Spanish defender Hector Yuste and Greek striker Dimitrios Diamantakos. The French midfielder Madih Talal, the Brazilian striker Cleiton Silva and the defender of Jordan Hijazi Maher are because of injury, while India International Anwar Ali also left the last few matches due to injury.
Eastern Bengal won the first 2-0 match during a visit to Chennai on December 7. It would give the Red Brigade and Gold, while playing back at home and finishing a double league.
