Botola Pro match preview: Olympic Safi versus CR Khemis Zemamra

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Competition: Morocco Botola Pro
Competition: Thu 05.March
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade El Massira (20000 seats)

With their 1 point advantage in the league table, Olympic Safi fans are hoping to see their team collect maximum points from this game against CR Khemis Zemamra.

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 Olympic Safi and CR Khemis Zemamra.

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Olympic Safi form and stats

Overall Botola Pro stats at home this season for Olympic Safi are 2-5-1 (wins-draw-losses). Olympic Safi are splitting points both home and away, currently holding an interesting streak of five drawn games in a row. Olympic Safi have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.

An away draw last time out for Olympic Safi, facing Raja Beni Mellal in a game that ended 0-0. In the match before that, Olympic Safi hosted FAR Rabat and drew the game 1-1.

Olympic Safi are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 8 goals in 8 games. Olympic Safi have only conceded 6 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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CR Khemis Zemamra form and stats

There's been little loot from CR Khemis Zemamra's travels as they have only collected 7 points from 8 away games in the Botola Pro. CR Khemis Zemamra only have 1 win to counter their 3 defeats and 4 draws.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Botola Pro home defeat versus Moghreb Tetouan with 1-2 on the scoreboard. Prior to that match, a home win 3-2 against Youssoufia Berrechid.

CR Khemis Zemamra were so close to getting something from the game against Moghreb Tetouan, but ended up with egg all over their face after conceding the deciding goal one minutes into overtime.

CR Khemis Zemamra have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 8 league away games 8 goals have been scored. As opposed to that, CR Khemis Zemamra have seen the ball go into their own net 10 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; CR Khemis Zemamra - Olympic Safi 1-1.

Top Goalscorers

Olympic Safi
W. Sabbar
6 goals
 
B. El Bahri
4 goals
 
A. El Moubarki
4 goals

Olympic Safi missing players

CR Khemis Zemamra missing players

Olympic Safi CR Khemis Zemamra
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
18 8 3 Played P 3 8 17
3 2 2 Won W 1 1 5
12 5 1 Drew D 1 4 5
3 1 0 Lost L 1 3 7
16 8 4 Scored S 3 8 24
16 6 1 Conceded C 3 10 21
78% 75% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
67% 62% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 75% 82%
22% 25% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 38% 53%
11% 12% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 12% 18%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 12%
61% 50% 33% BTTS BTTS 67% 75% 71%
33% 50% 67% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 18%
28% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 25% 12%
 
2.7 3.2 2.3 Corners for (avg) C F 3.3 3.8 3.8
4.4 4.1 3.3 Corners against (avg) C A 7 5.8 4.9
1.9 1.9 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.9 1.8
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
85 30 15 Total Shots T S 13 40 118
37 14 7 Shots on Target S O 4 15 47
43% 57% 57% Goal Efficiency G E 75% 53% 51%
Key stats in Botola Pro this season:
  • CR Khemis Zemamra has the fewest clean sheets (0) away
  • CR Khemis Zemamra has the most dropped points from leading position (15)
  • CR Khemis Zemamra have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • CR Khemis Zemamra haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Olympic Safi have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than 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 Wydad Casablanca 17 10 3 4 29 16 9 5 2 2 15 8 8 5 1 2 14 8 13 33
2 RSB Berkane 17 8 8 1 19 14 9 4 5 0 14 8 8 4 3 1 5 6 5 32
3 Mouloudia Oujda 18 8 7 3 23 16 10 6 2 2 13 9 8 2 5 1 10 7 7 31
4 FAR Rabat 17 9 2 6 22 16 9 5 1 3 11 7 8 4 1 3 11 9 6 29
5 Raja Casablanca 15 8 4 3 21 14 7 5 1 1 9 5 8 3 3 2 12 9 7 28
6 FUS Rabat 17 6 8 3 20 17 8 5 2 1 11 8 9 1 6 2 9 9 3 26
7 Difaa El Jadida 17 6 7 4 18 15 8 3 4 1 7 5 9 3 3 3 11 10 3 25
8 Moghreb Tetouan 18 6 7 5 17 14 8 4 4 0 7 2 10 2 3 5 10 12 3 25
9 Olympic Safi 18 3 12 3 16 16 8 2 5 1 8 6 10 1 7 2 8 10 0 21
10 Youssoufia Berrechid 17 6 3 8 23 31 9 5 2 2 15 13 8 1 1 6 8 18 -8 21
11 CR Khemis Zemamra 17 5 5 7 24 21 9 4 1 4 16 11 8 1 4 3 8 10 3 20
12 Khouribga 18 4 8 6 17 23 10 2 5 3 10 14 8 2 3 3 7 9 -6 20
13 Rapide Oued Zem 18 4 7 7 14 14 8 2 4 2 7 5 10 2 3 5 7 9 0 19
14 Hassania Agadir 17 4 4 9 18 24 8 3 2 3 9 9 9 1 2 6 9 15 -6 16
15 Ittihad Tanger 17 3 6 8 11 23 9 3 4 2 8 8 8 0 2 6 3 15 -12 15
16 Raja Beni Mellal 18 0 5 13 9 27 9 0 4 5 8 15 9 0 1 8 1 12 -18 5

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.