ATK Mohun Bagan (ATKMB) will be hoping to keep its new strength flawless against customary opponent SC East Bengal when the two go head to head at the Fatorda in the Indian Super League's (ISL 2021-22) Kolkata Derby on Saturday.
ATK Mohun Bagan won the main stage meeting with an unmistakable 3-0 decision and keeps on excess the top choice as it is the better-put side in the current association standings. ATKMB, which has stayed unbeaten in its last six excursions, is as of now positioned eighth with 16 points from 10 matches yet at the same time has three games close by.
SC East Bengal is at the lower part of the table with only nine points from 13 matches and is expecting to see a circle back in its fortunes under new mentor Mario Rivera, who made a couple of signings in the January move window. The association records frequently become insignificant with regards to the high-voltage experience that has kept the groups drawn in for around a century now.
"At the point when you play a derby, association positions don't make any difference. The derby is generally turning around your top adversary and the result can be anything," said Rivera just before the match. The SCEB mentor currently has the assignment of rearranging the side in the wake of experiencing a debilitating 0-4 misfortune against Hyderabad FC in the past trip.
ATKMB has not tasted accomplishment in the wake of getting back from a 18-day COVID actuated break. However, what will fill in as a resolve sponsor for the side trained by Juan Ferrando is the way that SC East Bengal has never beaten ATKMB since the different sides joined the ISL. The last time SC East Bengal won the derby was three years prior in January 2019.
ATK Mohun Bagan Possible XI : Amrinder Singh (GK), Tiri, Ashutosh Mehta, Subhasish Bose, Pritam Kotal (C), Carl McHugh, Deepak Tangri, David Williams, Manvir Singh, Liston Colaco, Roy Krishna.
SC East Bengal Possible XI : Arindam Bhattacharja (GK), Adil Khan, Ankit Mukherjee, Franjo Prce, Darren Sidoel, Mohammad Rafique (C), Sourav Das, Amarjit Kiyam, Antonio Perosevic, Naorem Singh, Marcelo Ribeiro.
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