It's looking good for MC Alger so far this season, with the 5th place in the Ligue 1 table and anticipating the visit of US Biskra (who are in 7th).
- MC Alger have won all their matches at home so far.
- US Biskra have the most matches over the total-line (4) in Ligue 1
Alger's stadium, Stade du 5 Juillet 1962, has a artifical turf surface. US Biskra 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 US Biskra when playing on artifical turf; 1 win, 6 draws and 17 losses from 24 matches. They have scored 17 goals in these games and conceded 43.
US Biskra could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Ligue 1 game only four sleeps ago.
MC Alger form and stats
The story so far in the Ligue 1 for MC Alger at their home stadium (Stade du 5 Juillet 1962) is 4 wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats. After failing to beat CR Belouizdad here at Stade du 5 Juillet 1962, Alger has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with four wins in a row.
The MC Alger goalkeeper is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 206 minutes without conceding a goal in the Ligue 1.
An away draw last time out for MC Alger, facing JS Saoura in a game that ended 0-0.
Previous to that game, a home match hosting RC Arbaa in a game that was won 1-0.The match schedule is unforgiving for MC Alger as they have a new game in only four days, a Ligue 1 match thankfully also at home. Paradou AC are visiting.
A decent goal production from MC Alger in their home games so far, with 7 goals from 4 league matches. Alger have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 1 goal.
US Biskra form and stats
1-1-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for US Biskra in their Ligue 1 matches away.
Ounnas was the last player to score for the away team. Biskra haven't scored a league goal in the last 270 minutes.
US Biskra's last game was the home draw against Tlemcen (0-0).
Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting NC Magra's place.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Biskra manager Houhou as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against JS Kabylie.
Biskra are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 7 times in 4 away games so far. US Biskra struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 6 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
MC Alger-US Biskra H2H statistics last seven meetings regardless of arena: Alger four wins, US Biskra one win, two draws. three of these seven matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  H. Mokhtar 6 goals |  S. Frioui 4 goals | Y. Djahnit 3 goals |
MC Alger missing players
US Biskra missing players
| MC Alger | US Biskra | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 4 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 5 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | 7 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 7 | 14 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 6 | 9 |
| 60% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 90% |
| 50% | 75% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 75% | 60% |
| 30% | 25% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 75% | 50% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 50% | 20% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 25% | 10% |
| 20% | 25% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 25% | 30% |
| 70% | 75% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 40% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | 40% |
| 4.1 | 5.8 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 3 | 4.2 |
| 3.9 | 2.8 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 1.8 | 2.4 |
| 2 | 2.5 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.5 | 2.1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | 9.2 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 7.2 | 6 |
| 3.5 | 3.2 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 4.2 | 3.3 |
| 31% | 54% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 41% | 42% |
| 8.2 | 6 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 7.8 | 6.4 |
| 3.3 | 2 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 4.2 | 3.6 |
- MC Alger have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- MC Alger have scored in all their home matches so far.
- MC Alger have won all their matches at home so far.
- MC Alger have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- MC Alger have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- MC Alger haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- US Biskra have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- US Biskra have the most matches over the total-line (4) in Ligue 1
- US Biskra have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- US Biskra haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| 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 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 24 |
| 2 | Paradou AC | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 21 |
| 3 | JS Saoura | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 20 |
| 4 | CS Constantine | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 20 |
| 5 | MC Alger | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 19 |
| 6 | ES Setif | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 19 |
| 7 | US Biskra | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 17 |
| 8 | USM Alger | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 15 |
| 9 | JS Kabylie | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 14 |
| 10 | Olympique Medea | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 8 | -1 | 14 |
| 11 | ASO Chlef | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | -2 | 10 |
| 12 | NA Hussein Dey | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -6 | 10 |
| 13 | HB Chelghoum Laid | 11 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -4 | 9 |
| 14 | RC Relizane | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 15 | -11 | 9 |
| 15 | MC Oran | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | -6 | 8 |
| 16 | RC Arbaa | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -11 | 8 |
| 17 | NC Magra | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 10 | -11 | 7 |
| 18 | Tlemcen | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | -9 | 6 |
