Olympique Médéa will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 5 points behind USM Alger.
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 Olympique Médéa and USM Alger.
USM Alger play their home games on artifical turf, while this game is played on grass. Recent stats for USM Alger when playing on grass are 5 wins, 7 draws and 7 defeats from 19 matches. They have scored 20 goals and conceded 23 times in these games.
Olympique Médéa form and stats
Olympique Médéa have collected 19 points from their Ligue 1 home games so far after 5-4-1.
Times are rough for the home team, having gone 191 minutes without scoring a league goal. Z. Kemoukh was the last player to find the net.
An away draw last time out for Olympique, facing MC Oran in a game that ended 0-0.
Heartbreak before that as Olympique lost 0-2 at JS Saoura's place.The manager A. Bekli will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to CR Belouizdad in only four days.
Olympique has scored 11 league goals at home this season, in 10 matches. From these home matches, Olympique have conceded only 7 goals.
USM Alger form and stats
As the visiting team in Ligue 1 matches, USM Alger have produced an overall stat of 3-4-3 so far.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Alger goalkeeper is eager to challenge this, with his 189 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Alger won their last game, 1-0 versus Tlemcen played at home.
Prior to that match, a home win 2-0 against JS Saoura.After this away game Alger return home for a Ligue 1 game against CS Constantine. That game is only four sleeps after this.
USM Alger have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 10 league away games 10 goals have been scored. Alger have conceded 10 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the USM Alger - Olympique 1-3 earlier this season. Head-2-head stats last seven meetings: one - two - four (Olympique wins - draws - USM Alger wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  H. Khalfallah 8 goals |  A. Belkacemi 8 goals | H. Koudri 7 goals |
Olympique Médéa missing players
USM Alger missing players
| Olympique Médéa | USM Alger | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 21 | 10 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 10 | 22 |
| 9 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 23 | 11 | 1 | Scored | S | 2 | 10 | 34 |
| 20 | 7 | 2 | Conceded | C | 4 | 10 | 20 |
| 81% | 80% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 90% | 95% |
| 62% | 60% | 33% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 60% | 73% |
| 48% | 40% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 40% | 50% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 10% | 23% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 5% |
| 52% | 60% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 60% | 45% |
| 29% | 30% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 30% | 41% |
| 38% | 30% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 18% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.1 | 1.8 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.3 | 2.2 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8.9 | 12.2 | 9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.5 | 4.6 | 6.9 |
| 4.4 | 6.1 | 4.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.5 | 1.5 | 3 |
| 26% | 18% | 8% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 67% | 53% | 48% |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | ES Sétif | 22 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 44 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 29 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 6 | 33 | 47 |
| 2 | MC Oran | 22 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 30 | 18 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 40 |
| 3 | JS Saoura | 22 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 38 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 11 | 23 | 39 |
| 4 | USM Alger | 22 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 34 | 20 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 38 |
| 5 | CR Belouizdad | 20 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 31 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 16 | 36 |
| 6 | JS Kabylie | 21 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 24 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 9 | 35 |
| 7 | MC Alger | 20 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 29 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 34 |
| 8 | Aïn M'lila | 22 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 24 | 28 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 19 | -4 | 34 |
| 9 | Paradou AC | 21 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 29 | 21 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 33 |
| 10 | Olympique Médéa | 21 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 23 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 13 | 3 | 33 |
| 11 | CS Constantine | 22 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 22 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 32 |
| 12 | RC Relizane | 22 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 27 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 21 | -11 | 25 |
| 13 | ASO Chlef | 22 | 7 | 3 | 12 | 24 | 36 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 18 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 18 | -12 | 24 |
| 14 | US Biskra | 22 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 25 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 20 | -13 | 23 |
| 15 | NC Magra | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 19 | 33 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 21 | -14 | 22 |
| 16 | Tlemcen | 22 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 20 | 27 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 14 | -7 | 21 |
| 17 | NA Hussein Dey | 22 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 19 | 27 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 17 | -8 | 20 |
| 18 | USM Bel Abbès | 22 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 16 | 41 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 25 | -25 | 16 |
| 19 | JSM Skikda | 21 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 32 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 23 | -19 | 14 |
| 20 | CA Bordj Bou Arreridj | 22 | 1 | 7 | 14 | 15 | 38 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 21 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 17 | -23 | 10 |