Difaâ El Jadida are ready to forget the league table before this match against FUS Rabat. Here's all you need to know pre-match!
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 Jadida and FUS Rabat.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting FUS Rabat have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 11-16-9 (win-draw-loss) from 36 matches.
Difaâ El Jadida form and stats
Difaâ El Jadida have collected 10 points from their Botola Pro home games so far after 2-4-3.
Happy days for Jadida in their previous game, a Botola Pro match away at Maghreb Fes (placed 11th) that ended with a 3-1 victory.
The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 2-2 versus Moghreb Tétouan.This is expected to be a close game, with Difaâ El Jadida perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Difaâ El Jadida as a small favourite), we find eleven games. Difaâ El Jadida has won three of these, drawn six and lost two.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Jadida here in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (5 from 9 games). It's worth mentioning that 3 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. From these home matches, Jadida have conceded only 6 goals. It's worth mentioning that 3 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
FUS Rabat form and stats
The visitors are W3-D4-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Botola Pro.
Rabat are travelling after their nice 2-1 home win in the Botola Pro against FAR Rabat (placed 3rd).
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Ittihad Tanger at their stadium, the result 2-1.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 16 similar matches played by FUS Rabat in our archives, and the results are: four wins for FUS Rabat, eight draws and four defeats.
Rabat are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 9 away goals from 9 games (in the league). They concede less than a goal on average per away game (8 so far).
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; FUS Rabat - Difaâ El Jadida 1-1. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: two wins for Difaâ El Jadida, three draws and five wins for FUS Rabat. Over 2,5 goals: four times; under 2,5 goals: six games.Top Goalscorers
  E. Karnass 4 goals |  E. El Bassil 4 goals | A. Hadraf 3 goals |
Difaâ El Jadida missing players
FUS Rabat missing players
| Difaâ El Jadida | FUS Rabat | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 9 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 19 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 6 | 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 17 | 5 | 2 | Scored | S | 2 | 9 | 22 |
| 21 | 6 | 3 | Conceded | C | 3 | 8 | 23 |
| 83% | 67% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 78% | 84% |
| 50% | 22% | 33% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 56% | 68% |
| 33% | 22% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 33% | 53% |
| 28% | 11% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 11% | 16% |
| 6% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 11% | 11% |
| 33% | 22% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 56% | 63% |
| 39% | 56% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 44% | 26% |
| 44% | 56% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 22% | 26% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.9 | 2 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.3 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6.8 | 6.4 | 8.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.3 | 8.2 | 8.2 |
| 2.7 | 2.3 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.3 | 3.6 | 3.5 |
| 35% | 24% | 22% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 28% | 33% |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Wydad Casablanca | 16 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 29 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 34 |
| 2 | Raja Casablanca | 17 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 25 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 33 |
| 3 | FAR Rabat | 19 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 24 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 31 |
| 4 | Hassania Agadir | 18 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 28 |
| 5 | Mouloudia Oujda | 19 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 26 | 22 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 27 |
| 6 | FUS Rabat | 19 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 22 | 23 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 8 | -1 | 25 |
| 7 | Ittihad Tanger | 19 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 23 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 12 | -3 | 25 |
| 8 | Moghreb Tétouan | 19 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 23 | 23 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 23 |
| 9 | RSB Berkane | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 20 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 12 | -2 | 23 |
| 10 | Olympic Safi | 19 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 20 | 28 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 16 | -8 | 23 |
| 11 | Maghreb Fes | 19 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 18 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 12 | -3 | 22 |
| 12 | Difaâ El Jadida | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 17 | 21 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 15 | -4 | 21 |
| 13 | Chabab Mohammédia | 19 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 14 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 20 |
| 14 | Rapide Oued Zem | 18 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 17 | 22 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -5 | 20 |
| 15 | Youssoufia Berrechid | 18 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -4 | 19 |
| 16 | CR Khemis Zemamra | 19 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 19 | 31 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 15 | -12 | 13 |