Evenly matched teams: Moghreb Tétouan vs Olympic Safi match preview

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Competition: Morocco Botola Pro
Competition: Thu 04.May
Match begins: 18:15 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Saniat Rmel (15000 seats)

Moghreb Tétouan come from a 0-1 result vs Hassania Agadir in their previous week, a game to learn from. The next task is this firm Olympic Safi team.

Insights:
  • Moghreb Tétouan have the most dropped points from leading position (19) in Botola Pro
  • Olympic Safi have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Moghreb Tétouan's stadium, Stade Saniat Rmel, has a artifical turf surface. Olympic Safi 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 Olympic Safi when playing on artifical turf; 2 wins, 4 draws and 7 losses from 13 matches. They have scored {11 goals} in these games and conceded 18.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Moghreb Tétouan form and stats

The story so far in the Botola Pro for Moghreb Tétouan at their home stadium (Stade Saniat Rmel) is 4 wins, 5 draws and 3 defeats.

The club members are hoping that Moghreb will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the game against Hassania Agadir (placed 10th).

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting FAR Rabat (1-2).

Trouble hitting the net? Looking at this club's last 10 league matches, 8 have had less than three goals (under 2.5).

Moghreb Tétouan have scored {11 league goals} here from 12 matches, not a lot. 13 goals have been conceded. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Olympic Safi form and stats

As the visiting team in Botola Pro matches, Olympic Safi have produced an overall stat of 6-3-3 so far. Momentum is building for Olympic Safi in their away games, having won their two previous outings.

219 minutes! That's how long the Olympic goalkeeper Mehdi Ouaya and his defense have shut out their league opponents.

Olympic Safi delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Chabab Mohammedia (placed 12th) in their previous match.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Difaâ El Jadida with the score of 1-0.

A tale of few goals? 9 of this club's last 12 league fixtures have seen two or less goals.

Olympic Safi are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 14 away goals from 12 games (in the league).

Head 2 Head

Olympic Safi have managed a streak of 9 consecutive matches without losing (2-7-0) when playing Moghreb.

The previous head-to-head meeting ended Olympic Safi - Moghreb Tétouan 1-1, played this season.

Top Goalscorers

Moghreb TétouanM. Saoud
M. Saoud
4 goals
Olympic SafiC. Samaké
C. Samaké
4 goals
MoghrebA. El Hassnaoui
A. El Hassnaoui
3 goals

Moghreb Tétouan missing players

Olympic Safi missing players

Moghreb Tétouan Olympic Safi
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
24 12 3 Played P 5 12 24
5 4 1 Won W 4 6 10
11 5 0 Drew D 0 3 10
8 3 2 Lost L 1 3 4
23 11 1 Scored S 6 14 27
30 13 5 Conceded C 3 12 21
88% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 83%
71% 67% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 40% 67% 62%
38% 33% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 40% 42% 38%
12% 8% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 8% 12%
4% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 4%
58% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 40% 58% 58%
25% 33% 33% Clean Sheets C S 60% 33% 38%
29% 25% 67% Failed to Score F T 0% 8% 21%
 
4 3.9 3.3 Corners for (avg) C F 3 3.9 4.1
4 3.3 3.3 Corners against (avg) C A 5.4 5.4 4.2
2.5 2.3 2.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.2 2 2.3
3 2 0 Red cards R C 1 2 4
 
8.5 8.9 5.3 Shots (avg) S ( 11.8 10.5 9.9
3.4 3.8 1.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.8 3.4
28% 24% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 30% 31% 33%
 
9.5 8 10.7 Shots against (avg) S A 6.8 6.5 6.1
3.8 3.3 4.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 1.8 2.5 2.4
Key stats in Botola Pro this season:
  • Moghreb Tétouan have the most dropped points from leading position (19) in Botola Pro
  • Olympic Safi have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Olympic Safi 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 FAR Rabat 24 15 6 3 41 16 12 9 2 1 26 9 12 6 4 2 15 7 25 51
2 Wydad Casablanca 24 14 8 2 34 18 12 8 3 1 18 7 12 6 5 1 16 11 16 50
3 FUS Rabat 24 12 8 4 31 12 12 7 4 1 21 6 12 5 4 3 10 6 19 44
4 Olympic Safi 24 10 10 4 27 21 12 4 7 1 13 9 12 6 3 3 14 12 6 40
5 Raja Casablanca 24 9 8 7 26 22 12 7 5 0 16 7 12 2 3 7 10 15 4 35
6 Riadi Salmi 24 8 9 7 25 25 12 3 5 4 12 15 12 5 4 3 13 10 0 33
7 RSB Berkane 24 8 9 7 22 24 12 5 2 5 14 16 12 3 7 2 8 8 -2 33
8 Maghreb Fes 24 7 11 6 26 23 12 5 5 2 12 7 12 2 6 4 14 16 3 32
9 UTS Rabat 24 8 7 9 24 28 12 6 2 4 12 9 12 2 5 5 12 19 -4 31
10 Hassania Agadir 24 8 5 11 21 25 13 5 4 4 13 12 11 3 1 7 8 13 -4 29
11 Moghreb Tétouan 24 5 11 8 23 30 12 4 5 3 11 13 12 1 6 5 12 17 -7 26
12 Chabab Mohammedia 24 6 7 11 18 25 12 3 5 4 13 16 12 3 2 7 5 9 -7 25
13 Mouloudia Oujda 24 6 6 12 25 29 11 2 4 5 10 12 13 4 2 7 15 17 -4 24
14 Difaâ El Jadida 24 5 7 12 19 36 12 4 4 4 8 10 12 1 3 8 11 26 -17 22
15 Ittihad Tanger 24 6 2 16 16 33 12 5 1 6 12 12 12 1 1 10 4 21 -17 20
16 Khouribga 24 2 12 10 18 29 12 2 5 5 11 14 12 0 7 5 7 15 -11 18

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.