AS Salé vs Racing de Casablanca: Match guide and preview

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Competition: Morocco Botola 2
Date: Fri 31.January
Match begins: 00:00 (UTC)

Struggling AS Salé will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Racing de Casablanca in the upcoming league round. It’s 11th vs 1st and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artificial turf and that the visiting Racing de Casablanca have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artificial turf is 4-5-4 (win-draw-loss) from 13 matches.

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AS Salé form and stats

The story so far in the Botola 2 for AS Salé, who have the most clean sheets (4) at home in Botola 2, at their home stadium is 1 win, 6 draws and 0 defeats. Two draws in a row at home now for AS Salé.

AS Salé lost their last game at Wydad Fès (placed 5th) after a 0-1 scoreline. Before that, AS Salé drew at home versus Riadi Salmi.

The lack of attacking qualities in AS Salé means that they have only scored 3 goals in 7 league home games, less than half a goal per match. As for guarding their own goal, AS Salé have only let in 2 goals at home.

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Racing de Casablanca form and stats

2-5-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Racing de Casablanca in their Botola 2 matches away. Things are running smoothly for Racing de Casablanca who hasn't tasted defeat in their last 15 matches, regardless of venue and tournament. Their last defeat was against Chabab Ben Guerir. The away team travel with confidence. Not since the Chabab Ben Guerir game have they lost an away game, meaning Racing de Casablanca has taken points from seven away matches in a row.

Racing de Casablanca won their last game, 2-0 versus Chabab Ben Guerir played at home. A 0-0 draw was the result before that, hosting Ittihad Khemisset.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Racing de Casablanca as they have only managed to score 7 times from 8 away games in the league. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (6 so far).

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the Racing de Casablanca - AS Salé 2-0 earlier this season. Last ten meetings between the teams: AS Salé won 3, Racing de Casablanca won 5 and 2 draws. 5 games with over 2,5 goals, 5 matches with two goals or less.

AS Salé missing players

Racing de Casablanca missing players

AS Salé Racing de Casablanca
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
15 7 3 Played P 2 8 16
3 1 1 Won W 1 2 7
9 6 2 Drew D 1 5 8
3 0 0 Lost L 0 1 1
10 3 2 Scored S 2 7 16
10 2 1 Conceded C 1 6 7
73% 43% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 75% 69%
47% 29% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 62% 56%
7% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 25% 19%
7% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
40% 29% 33% BTTS BTTS 50% 62% 38%
40% 71% 67% Clean Sheets C S 50% 38% 62%
47% 57% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 31%
 
4.3 5.2 7 Corners For (avg) C F 2 2.5 2.6
5.5 6.2 4 Corners Against (avg) C A 5 5 3.4
2.2 2.8 2 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 2 1.5 1.4
2 2 0 Red Cards R C 0 0 0
 
69 44 5 Total Shots T S 12 19 44
21 15 2 Shots on Target S O 5 7 19
5% 7% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 29% 42%
Key stats in Botola 2 this season:
  • AS Salé has the fewest scored goals (3) at home
  • AS Salé has the most clean sheets (4) at home
  • AS Salé have not yet lost a game at home.
  • AS Salé have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Racing de Casablanca has the fewest conceded goals (7)
  • Racing de Casablanca have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Racing de Casablanca have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Racing de Casablanca have scored at least twice as many goals away as AS Salé have scored home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Racing de Casablanca 16 7 8 1 16 7 8 5 3 0 9 1 8 2 5 1 7 6 9 29
2 Maghreb Fès 16 7 6 3 19 13 7 5 2 0 11 4 9 2 4 3 8 9 6 27
3 Riadi Salmi 15 8 3 4 13 8 8 6 1 1 11 5 7 2 2 3 2 3 5 27
4 Chabab Mohammédia 15 7 5 3 20 11 8 4 3 1 11 6 7 3 2 2 9 5 9 26
5 Wydad Fès 16 5 8 3 16 13 9 4 5 0 10 6 7 1 3 3 6 7 3 23
6 Ittihad Khemisset 15 6 4 5 19 17 7 2 1 4 8 10 8 4 3 1 11 7 2 22
7 Chabab Atlas Khénifra 16 4 8 4 11 12 7 2 4 1 6 6 9 2 4 3 5 6 -1 20
8 Chabab Ben Guerir 16 5 5 6 17 20 7 3 3 1 8 5 9 2 2 5 9 15 -3 20
9 KAC Kénitra 15 4 7 4 17 18 8 1 5 2 8 9 7 3 2 2 9 9 -1 19
10 Kawkab Marrakech 15 4 6 5 13 13 8 3 2 3 8 6 7 1 4 2 5 7 0 18
11 AS Salé 15 3 9 3 10 10 7 1 6 0 3 2 8 2 3 3 7 8 0 18
12 Olympique Dcheïra 15 3 7 5 13 14 7 3 3 1 10 7 8 0 4 4 3 7 -1 16
13 Tihad Casablanca 15 3 7 5 16 19 8 2 3 3 7 8 7 1 4 2 9 11 -3 16
14 Widad Témara 15 3 7 5 15 19 8 3 2 3 6 8 7 0 5 2 9 11 -4 16
15 Chabab Rif Hoceima 16 3 3 10 12 24 9 3 3 3 10 12 7 0 0 7 2 12 -12 12
16 Sidi Kacem 15 1 7 7 10 19 7 0 4 3 6 10 8 1 3 4 4 9 -9 10

Read more about Botola 2

Botola 2 is the second highest football league in Morocco. It has 16 teams each playing 30 fixtures to set a final league table, with the season running from August to April/May. The two top teams in the league table are promoted while the bottom two are relegated to the third level, Division Nationale.