Get ready for the first of two legs in this CAF Champions League clash between CR Belouizdad and Wydad Casablanca

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Competition: Africa CAF Champions League
Competition: Sat 16.April
Match begins: 21:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade du 5 Juillet 1962 (66000 seats)

The first of two encounters in the CAF Champions League Quarter-finals, as the hometeam CR Belouizdad will try to edge Wydad Casablanca in their own ballpark.

CR Belouizdad's stadium, Stade du 5 Juillet 1962, has a artifical turf surface. Wydad Casablanca have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Wydad Casablanca when playing on artifical turf; 4 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss from seven matches. They have scored 13 goals in these games and conceded 8.

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1200 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

CR Belouizdad have less rest than Wydad Casablanca in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Ligue 1 game only four days ago. That game was an away game at JS Saoura, so at least CR Belouizdad are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

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CR Belouizdad form and stats

Belouizdad participated in CAF Champions League the last season, where they reached the quarter-finals.

This stadium, Stade du 5 Juillet 1962, has been a fortress for CR Belouizdad in the Ligue 1 so far this season with the win-draw-loss statistic 9-1-1. This match is a CAF Champions League match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 5 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses in this competition.

Nothing to worry about in defence for CR Belouizdad, as their goalkeeper Ahmed Abdelkader has completely shut out the opponents for 180 minutes in the Ligue 1.

Happy days for CR Belouizdad in their previous game, a fixture away at JS Saoura that ended with a 1-0 victory.

Before that, Belouizdad played out a Ligue 1 draw 0-0 when visiting Olympique Medea.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does CR Belouizdad handle that role? We have found nine games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are six wins, two draws and one defeat.

A decent goal production from CR Belouizdad in their home games so far, with 17 goals from 11 league matches. CR Belouizdad have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 3 goals. It's worth mentioning that 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Wydad Casablanca form and stats

Casablanca's mission in CAF Champions League last season failed in the semi-finals against Kaizer Chiefs.

5 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of Wydad Casablanca playing as the away team in the Botola Pro this season. When we have look at the CAF Champions League statistics, we find 6W-0D-2L. This is both home and away.

The supporters enjoyed Wydad Casablanca's previous fixture versus Chabab Mohammedia, a Coupe Du Trone win (3-2) played at home.

hometeam won

The visiting Casablanca have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 14 goals from 10 games. Wydad Casablanca are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 8 times in 10 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

Wydad CasablancaG. Mbenza Kamboleke
G. Mbenza Kamboleke
11 goals
BelouizdadK. Merzougui
K. Merzougui
8 goals
Wydad CasablancaM. Ali
M. Ali
4 goals

CR Belouizdad missing players

Wydad Casablanca missing players

CR Belouizdad Wydad Casablanca
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 12   Played P   12 25
17 10   Won W   6 17
5 1   Drew D   2 3
3 1   Lost L   4 5
39 21   Scored S   19 51
15 3   Conceded C   13 24
88% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   83% 92%
56% 58%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   58% 72%
40% 25%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   58% 56%
12% 8%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   25% 32%
8% 8%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   25% 28%
36% 17%   BTTS BTTS   50% 52%
56% 75%   Clean Sheets C S   42% 40%
20% 8%   Failed to Score F T   25% 16%
 
4.4 5.1   Corners for (avg) C F   3.7 4.7
3.2 3.3   Corners against (avg) C A   2.6 2.5
1.9 1.8   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.5 2.4
0 0   Red cards R C   0 1
 
10.6 11.7   Shots (avg) S (   6.7 9.4
4.5 4.8   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.2 4.7
35% 37%   Goal Efficiency G E   49% 40%
 
6.5 5.8   Shots against (avg) S A   4.6 5.1
2.3 1.8   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   2.3 2.2

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 CR Belouizdad 23 16 4 3 36 15 11 9 1 1 17 3 12 7 3 2 19 12 21 52
2 JS Saoura 23 12 7 4 38 15 13 8 4 1 25 5 10 4 3 3 13 10 23 43
3 JS Kabylie 24 11 10 3 28 14 12 7 4 1 17 6 12 4 6 2 11 8 14 43
4 Paradou AC 25 13 4 8 37 26 12 7 3 2 20 10 13 6 1 6 17 16 11 43
5 MC Alger 25 11 9 5 31 17 12 8 3 1 21 7 13 3 6 4 10 10 14 42
6 CS Constantine 25 11 7 7 32 19 12 9 1 2 22 6 13 2 6 5 10 13 13 40
7 USM Alger 25 9 12 4 31 16 13 7 6 0 21 6 12 2 6 4 10 10 15 39
8 ES Setif 23 10 7 6 21 14 12 7 3 2 16 8 11 3 4 4 5 6 7 37
9 ASO Chlef 25 9 8 8 25 20 13 6 4 3 16 8 12 3 4 5 9 12 5 35
10 US Biskra 25 9 7 9 27 26 13 8 3 2 16 7 12 1 4 7 11 19 1 34
11 NC Magra 25 10 3 12 24 30 12 7 2 3 13 8 13 3 1 9 11 22 -6 33
12 MC Oran 24 6 10 8 20 26 12 4 6 2 14 13 12 2 4 6 6 13 -6 28
13 RC Arbaa 25 6 10 9 23 32 13 4 6 3 14 14 12 2 4 6 9 18 -9 28
14 HB Chelghoum Laid 25 6 9 10 22 33 13 5 6 2 14 9 12 1 3 8 8 24 -11 27
15 Olympique Medea 25 7 4 14 19 32 12 4 3 5 10 13 13 3 1 9 9 19 -13 25
16 NA Hussein Dey 25 5 6 14 26 40 12 3 3 6 15 22 13 2 3 8 11 18 -14 21
17 RC Relizane 25 3 7 15 17 49 12 3 4 5 11 14 13 0 3 10 6 35 -32 16
18 Tlemcen 25 3 4 18 12 45 12 3 2 7 9 19 13 0 2 11 3 26 -33 13
  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 20 13 4 3 31 16 10 8 1 1 17 8 10 5 3 2 14 8 15 43
2 Raja Casablanca 20 11 7 2 27 14 10 5 4 1 13 7 10 6 3 1 14 7 13 40
3 FAR Rabat 21 8 7 6 27 22 11 4 4 3 14 14 10 4 3 3 13 8 5 31
4 Maghreb Fes 20 6 11 3 17 11 10 5 5 0 12 3 10 1 6 3 5 8 6 29
5 Difaa El Jadida 20 7 8 5 24 26 10 5 4 1 11 7 10 2 4 4 13 19 -2 29
6 RSB Berkane 20 6 10 4 22 18 11 5 4 2 17 10 9 1 6 2 5 8 4 28
7 FUS Rabat 20 7 7 6 24 22 10 4 4 2 14 11 10 3 3 4 10 11 2 28
8 Chabab Mohammedia 20 6 8 6 21 17 9 6 2 1 16 5 11 0 6 5 5 12 4 26
9 Riadi Salmi 20 7 5 8 26 24 10 4 2 4 13 12 10 3 3 4 13 12 2 26
10 Khouribga 20 5 9 6 25 27 10 2 7 1 11 12 10 3 2 5 14 15 -2 24
11 Ittihad Tanger 21 7 3 11 22 30 11 5 3 3 13 11 10 2 0 8 9 19 -8 24
12 Hassania Agadir 20 6 5 9 14 15 9 3 2 4 7 7 11 3 3 5 7 8 -1 23
13 Youssoufia Berrechid 20 5 7 8 20 28 10 4 3 3 9 9 10 1 4 5 11 19 -8 22
14 Mouloudia Oujda 20 5 6 9 23 27 10 3 3 4 14 17 10 2 3 5 9 10 -4 21
15 Olympic Safi 20 4 8 8 12 17 10 3 5 2 7 6 10 1 3 6 5 11 -5 20
16 Rapide Oued Zem 20 3 5 12 7 28 10 2 2 6 2 13 10 1 3 6 5 15 -21 14