Olympic Safi vs Raja Casablanca: Soccer match preview

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Competition: Morocco Botola Pro
Competition: Sat 28.January
Match begins: 17:15 (UTC)
Venue: Stade El Massira (20000 seats)

The Olympic Safi & Raja Casablanca managers Labib and Kbaïer are both fearful of and eagerly anticipating this vital game in the upper area of the Botola Pro standings.

Insights:
  • Raja Casablanca is in the best form (4-2-0) in Botola Pro

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 Raja Casablanca.

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Olympic Safi form and stats

2-4-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Botola Pro numbers at home for Olympic Safi so far this season. So many draws at home for Olympic, an amazing four in a row now.

Olympic Safi drew their last game, also a home match. Riadi Salmi (placed 7th) was the opponent, 1-1 the score.

In the game before, an away victory match versus Khouribga with a 1-0 scoreline.

Trouble hitting the net? Looking at this club's last 10 league matches, 8 have produced zero, one or two goals.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Olympic Safi here at Stade El Massira in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (6 from 7 games). Olympic have only conceded 5 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Raja Casablanca form and stats

The visitors are W2-D3-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Botola Pro.

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Raja Casablanca goalkeeper is eager to challenge this, with his 216 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Casablanca are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 0-0 draw at Difaa El Jadida (placed 9th).

Before that, Raja Casablanca secured a home win against FAR Rabat with the score 1-0.

Stats flash: 9 of the last 12 league matches featuring this side have ended with only one (or no) side scoring (Both Teams to Score NO in sports betting words).

They concede less than a goal on average per away game (4 so far).

Head 2 Head

Olympic have won or drawn the last 4 games (2-2-0) facing Raja Casablanca.

This was the scoreline when the contenders met earlier this campaign; Raja Casablanca - Olympic Safi 2-2.

Top Goalscorers

Raja CasablancaM. Nahiri
M. Nahiri
4 goals
Olympic SafiC. Samaké
C. Samaké
3 goals
OlympicA. Diarra
A. Diarra
3 goals

Olympic Safi missing players

Raja Casablanca missing players

Olympic Safi Raja Casablanca
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
15 7 1 Played P 1 7 15
6 2 0 Won W 0 2 7
6 4 1 Drew D 0 3 6
3 1 0 Lost L 1 2 2
16 6 0 Scored S 1 7 18
14 5 0 Conceded C 2 4 8
87% 71% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 57% 73%
67% 57% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 43% 47%
40% 29% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 29% 33%
7% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 14% 13%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 14% 7%
60% 57% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 29% 33%
33% 43% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 57% 60%
20% 29% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 57% 33%
 
4.2 3.6 5 Corners for (avg) C F 2 6 6.2
3.8 2.1 4 Corners against (avg) C A 2 2.3 3
2.5 2.4 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.9 2.7
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11.5 12.3 8 Shots (avg) S ( 10 10.4 9.8
3.5 3.6 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1 3.6 3.5
30% 24% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 100% 28% 35%
 
5.8 4.9 4 Shots against (avg) S A 9 6.7 6.5
2.3 1.6 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7 3.9 2.9
Key stats in Botola Pro this season:
  • Raja Casablanca have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Raja Casablanca have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Raja Casablanca is in the best form (4-2-0) 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 15 9 4 2 25 9 8 5 2 1 17 6 7 4 2 1 8 3 16 31
2 Wydad Casablanca 15 9 4 2 18 9 7 5 1 1 10 4 8 4 3 1 8 5 9 31
3 FUS Rabat 15 8 5 2 18 8 7 3 3 1 8 4 8 5 2 1 10 4 10 29
4 Raja Casablanca 15 7 6 2 18 8 8 5 3 0 11 4 7 2 3 2 7 4 10 27
5 Olympic Safi 15 6 6 3 16 14 7 2 4 1 6 5 8 4 2 2 10 9 2 24
6 Maghreb Fès 15 5 6 4 15 13 7 3 3 1 6 3 8 2 3 3 9 10 2 21
7 Riadi Salmi 15 5 6 4 17 16 7 1 3 3 5 9 8 4 3 1 12 7 1 21
8 UTS Rabat 14 6 3 5 13 13 7 4 0 3 7 5 7 2 3 2 6 8 0 21
9 Difaa El Jadida 15 5 6 4 15 19 8 4 3 1 8 7 7 1 3 3 7 12 -4 21
10 RSB Berkane 14 5 5 4 12 12 8 4 1 3 9 8 6 1 4 1 3 4 0 20
11 Chabab Mohammedia 14 5 3 6 13 16 7 2 3 2 8 10 7 3 0 4 5 6 -3 18
12 Moghreb Tétouan 15 3 7 5 18 23 8 2 3 3 8 12 7 1 4 2 10 11 -5 16
13 Hassania Agadir 15 3 5 7 13 16 8 1 4 3 7 9 7 2 1 4 6 7 -3 14
14 Mouloudia Oujda 15 3 4 8 15 20 7 0 3 4 6 10 8 3 1 4 9 10 -5 13
15 Khouribga 14 0 6 8 7 17 7 0 2 5 4 10 7 0 4 3 3 7 -10 6
16 Ittihad Tanger 15 0 2 13 5 25 7 0 1 6 2 10 8 0 1 7 3 15 -20 2

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.