Game preview: Home fans have big expectations when FAR Rabat meet Chabab Mohammédia

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Competition: Morocco Botola Pro
Competition: Thu 06.April
Match begins: 22:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Prince Moulay Abdallah (52000 seats)

FAR Rabat are positioned 1st, while Chabab Mohammédia are lingering 20 points behind in the league table. Can they reduce the gap?

Insights:
  • FAR Rabat have the most scored goals (36) in Botola Pro
  • FAR Rabat have scored more than double the goals of Chabab Mohammédia.

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 FAR Rabat and Chabab Mohammédia.

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FAR Rabat form and stats

FAR Rabat are steadily winning Botola Pro games and points here at Stade Prince Moulay Abdallah. 7 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat is the summary from 10 games. Ever since the FUS Rabat game Rabat has been unbeatable here at Stade Prince Moulay Abdallah producing five straight wins.

The FAR Rabat goalkeeper is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 297 minutes without conceding a goal in the Botola Pro.

A nice win for Rabat last time playing, versus Chabab Mohammédia. That was also a home game and the match ended 1-0.

In the fixture before, 1-1 away to ASKO de Kara (CAF Confederations Cup).

Goals decide football matches and FAR Rabat are scoring many of them at home; 23 on target from 10 league matches. From these home matches, Rabat have conceded only 8 goals.

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Chabab Mohammédia form and stats

The visitors are W3-D1-L5 on the road this term. That's in the Botola Pro. Chabab Mohammédia has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.

There might be some fixture complaints from Chabab Mohammédia as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous game, 0-1 against FAR Rabat.

Before that, the Coupe Du Trone victory away at Fath Casablanca.

Low on goals? 9 of this club's latest 10 league matches have had two goals or less.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Mohammédia as they have only managed to score 5 times from 9 away games in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. It's not easy to score on Chabab Mohammédia as they have only conceded 7 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

Rabat have won at least one point in the last 5 games (3-2-0) against Chabab Mohammédia.

The two duelists also played each other before this match year: Chabab Mohammédia - FAR Rabat 1-1.

Top Goalscorers

FAR RabatE. Monteiro Sanches Borges
E. Monteiro Sanches Borges
7 goals
Chabab MohammédiaO. Lamlaoui
O. Lamlaoui
6 goals
FAR RabatI. Hamza
I. Hamza
5 goals

FAR Rabat missing players

Chabab Mohammédia missing players

FAR Rabat Chabab Mohammédia
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
21 11 3 Played P 2 10 21
14 8 2 Won W 1 3 6
5 2 1 Drew D 0 1 6
2 1 0 Lost L 1 6 9
37 24 6 Scored S 2 5 17
12 8 2 Conceded C 2 8 22
95% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 90% 90%
67% 82% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 20% 48%
38% 64% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 20% 29%
19% 27% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 5%
14% 18% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 5%
43% 55% 67% BTTS BTTS 50% 20% 43%
48% 36% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 30% 24%
14% 9% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 60% 43%
 
4.5 3.9 3.3 Corners for (avg) C F 2.5 4 4
4 5.2 4 Corners against (avg) C A 8 6.9 6.4
1.6 1.3 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.4 1.8
3 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
10.1 9.6 9.7 Shots (avg) S ( 4.5 6.2 7.8
4.1 4 2.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 1.9 2.8
43% 55% 75% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 26% 29%
 
8.2 9.3 8 Shots against (avg) S A 18.5 12.6 12
3 4 3.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.5 4.1 3.9
Key stats in Botola Pro this season:
  • FAR Rabat have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • FAR Rabat have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • FAR Rabat have scored more than double the goals of Chabab Mohammédia.
  • FAR Rabat have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (6) in Botola Pro
  • FAR Rabat have the most scored goals (23) at home in Botola Pro
  • FAR Rabat have the most scored goals (36) in Botola Pro
  • FAR Rabat have the most scored goals in the first half (18) in Botola Pro
  • FAR Rabat have the most scored goals in the second half (19) in Botola Pro
  • FAR Rabat have the the best goal difference (+15) at home in Botola Pro
  • FAR Rabat have the the best goal difference (+24) in Botola Pro
  • FAR Rabat haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • FAR Rabat is in the best form (4-1-0) in Botola Pro

  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 20 13 5 2 36 12 10 7 2 1 23 8 10 6 3 1 13 4 24 44
2 Wydad Casablanca 21 12 7 2 30 16 10 7 2 1 16 6 11 5 5 1 14 10 14 43
3 FUS Rabat 21 10 8 3 23 11 10 5 4 1 13 6 11 5 4 2 10 5 12 38
4 Raja Casablanca 21 9 7 5 25 17 11 7 4 0 16 7 10 2 3 5 9 10 8 34
5 Olympic Safi 21 8 9 4 23 19 10 3 6 1 10 7 11 5 3 3 13 12 4 33
6 UTS Rabat 21 8 6 7 19 21 11 6 2 3 11 7 10 2 4 4 8 14 -2 30
7 Maghreb Fes 21 6 11 4 23 19 10 4 5 1 10 5 11 2 6 3 13 14 4 29
8 RSB Berkane 21 7 8 6 19 21 11 4 2 5 13 16 10 3 6 1 6 5 -2 29
9 Riadi Salmi 21 7 7 7 21 22 10 2 4 4 8 12 11 5 3 3 13 10 -1 28
10 Chabab Mohammédia 20 6 6 8 17 21 11 3 5 3 12 14 9 3 1 5 5 7 -4 24
11 Moghreb Tetouan 21 4 11 6 21 27 11 3 5 3 10 13 10 1 6 3 11 14 -6 23
12 Difaa El Jadida 21 5 7 9 18 28 11 4 4 3 8 9 10 1 3 6 10 19 -10 22
13 Mouloudia Oujda 21 5 5 11 22 26 10 1 4 5 8 11 11 4 1 6 14 15 -4 20
14 Hassania Agadir 21 5 5 11 16 23 11 3 4 4 10 11 10 2 1 7 6 12 -7 20
15 Khouribga 21 2 10 9 16 24 10 2 3 5 9 12 11 0 7 4 7 12 -8 16
16 Ittihad Tanger 21 3 2 16 10 32 10 3 1 6 7 11 11 0 1 10 3 21 -22 11

Read more about Botola Pro

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.