Difaâ El Jadida favourites for feisty fight facing Khouribga

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Competition: Morocco Botola Pro
Competition: Fri 06.January
Match begins: 17:15 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Ben Ahmed El Abdi (15000 seats)

This fixture stars two participants dwelling in the basement of the Botola Pro, Difaâ El Jadida at 12th spot and Khouribga lying 15th. A good opportunity for one of the sides to boost their situation.

Insights:
  • Difaâ El Jadida have the most conceded goals (15) in Botola Pro
  • Khouribga have the fewest scored goals in the first half (1) in Botola Pro

It's no vacation for neither Jadida nor Khouribga as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Difaâ El Jadida form and stats

2 victories, 2 draws and 1 defeat. That’s what Difaâ El Jadida have to build on here at Stade Ben Ahmed El Abdi in the Botola Pro.

An away draw last time out for Difaâ El Jadida, facing Hassania Agadir in a game that ended 2-2. Opportunity lost for Difaâ El Jadida in the Hassania Agadir match as a lead 2-0 was lost and what looked like a victory ended in a draw.

Preceding that match was a defeat to FUS Rabat (0-3).

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Jadida have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 13 games) they have won 8 times, drawn 3 and lost 2.

Difaâ El Jadida have scored {4 league goals} here from 5 matches, not a lot.

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Khouribga form and stats

Playing away, Khouribga, who have the fewest scored goals (0) away in Botola Pro, have won 0 games, drawn 3 and suffered 2 defeats in the Botola Pro this season. The last three matches for Khouribga have all ended in a draw.

Khouribga are looking to quickly end their 180 minutes long goal drought in the Botola Pro. Khouribga have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper. It's been 228 minutes since they last conceded in Botola Pro.

Khouribga's last game was the home draw against Raja Casablanca (0-0).

Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Mouloudia Oujda.

Khouribga are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 4 wins, 3 draws and 4 defeats. From a total of 11 matches.

Low on goals? 8 of this team's latest 10 league fixtures have contained two goals or less.

It's not easy to score on Khouribga as they have only conceded 3 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

Stats for the prior ten meetings involving these two squads are: four wins for Difaâ El Jadida, four draws and two wins for Khouribga. Over 2,5 goals: six times; under 2,5 goals: four games.

Top Goalscorers

Difaâ El JadidaM. Juma Choka
M. Juma Choka
3 goals
JadidaM. Chichane
M. Chichane
2 goals
Difaâ El JadidaA. Farah
A. Farah
2 goals

Difaâ El Jadida missing players

Khouribga missing players

Difaâ El Jadida Khouribga
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
10 5 1 Played P 2 5 10
2 2 1 Won W 0 0 0
5 2 0 Drew D 1 3 5
3 1 0 Lost L 1 2 5
9 4 1 Scored S 0 0 4
15 5 0 Conceded C 1 3 10
80% 80% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 40% 60%
60% 40% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 20% 40%
50% 40% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 20%
40% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 10%
10% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 10%
50% 20% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 30%
40% 60% 100% Clean Sheets C S 50% 60% 40%
30% 40% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 100% 70%
 
4 3.6 3 Corners for (avg) C F 3 2.2 4.3
4.8 4.2 7 Corners against (avg) C A 5 5.6 4.6
2.3 2 4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2 1.8
2 0 0 Red cards R C 1 2 2
 
8.3 8.4 11 Shots (avg) S ( 4.5 4.4 8
3.4 3 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1 0.8 2.8
26% 27% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 14%
 
10.5 10.8 12 Shots against (avg) S A 18.5 14.6 12.1
3.9 3.2 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 4.4 4.2
Key stats in Botola Pro this season:
  • Difaâ El Jadida have scored more than double the goals of Khouribga.
  • Difaâ El Jadida have the most conceded goals (15) in Botola Pro
  • Difaâ El Jadida have the most conceded goals in the second half (10) in Botola Pro
  • Khouribga have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Khouribga have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Khouribga have failed to score a single goal away.
  • Khouribga have the fewest scored goals (0) away in Botola Pro
  • Khouribga have the fewest scored goals in the first half (1) in Botola Pro
  • Khouribga have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Khouribga have yet to win a game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 FAR Rabat 9 6 3 0 16 5 5 3 2 0 11 4 4 3 1 0 5 1 11 21
2 Wydad Casablanca 9 5 3 1 11 7 4 3 1 0 7 2 5 2 2 1 4 5 4 18
3 UTS Rabat 9 5 2 2 9 5 5 4 0 1 6 2 4 1 2 1 3 3 4 17
4 FUS Rabat 9 4 4 1 9 4 4 1 3 0 2 1 5 3 1 1 7 3 5 16
5 Olympic Safi 9 4 3 2 11 10 4 2 1 1 4 3 5 2 2 1 7 7 1 15
6 Raja Casablanca 10 3 5 2 10 7 5 2 3 0 5 3 5 1 2 2 5 4 3 14
7 Maghreb Fes 9 3 4 2 10 8 4 2 1 1 4 2 5 1 3 1 6 6 2 13
8 Hassania Agadir 10 3 3 4 11 11 5 1 3 1 6 6 5 2 0 3 5 5 0 12
9 Riadi Salmi 9 3 3 3 9 11 4 0 2 2 2 6 5 3 1 1 7 5 -2 12
10 Moghreb Tetouan 9 2 5 2 11 12 5 2 2 1 5 5 4 0 3 1 6 7 -1 11
11 Chabab Mohammedia 9 3 2 4 9 10 5 2 2 1 7 6 4 1 0 3 2 4 -1 11
12 Difaâ El Jadida 10 2 5 3 9 15 5 2 2 1 4 5 5 0 3 2 5 10 -6 11
13 RSB Berkane 9 2 4 3 8 10 5 2 1 2 6 6 4 0 3 1 2 4 -2 10
14 Mouloudia Oujda 10 2 3 5 9 11 5 0 2 3 3 6 5 2 1 2 6 5 -2 9
15 Khouribga 10 0 5 5 4 10 5 0 2 3 4 7 5 0 3 2 0 3 -6 5
16 Ittihad Tanger 10 0 2 8 4 14 5 0 1 4 2 8 5 0 1 4 2 6 -10 2

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The Botola Pro (or Botola Premier League) is the top level football league in Morocco. Botola literally means “the Moroccan Championship”. It’s season runs from August to May and has 16 teams each playing 30 fixtures to decide the final league table. The Botola Pro is the most watched football league in Africa according to Wikipedia, and football the most popular sport in Morocco.