Botola Pro match preview and statistics: Olympic Safi fight RSB Berkane

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Competition: Morocco Botola Pro
Competition: Sun 11.October
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade El Massira (20000 seats)

Struggling Olympic Safi will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying RSB Berkane in the upcoming league round. It’s 12th vs 3rd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for RSB Berkane, who are travelling more than 800 kilometers to play this game.

Olympic can neither be promoted or relegated from Botola Pro.

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Olympic Safi form and stats

5-7-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Botola Pro numbers at home for Olympic Safi so far this season.

H. Khabba was the last player to score a league goal for Olympic Safi and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Olympic haven't scored in 187 minutes.

The fans are hoping that Olympic will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the Botola Pro game against Mouloudia Oujda (placed 6th). Before that, Olympic Safi drew at home versus Ittihad Tanger.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Olympic here at Stade El Massira in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (12 from 14 games). From these home matches, Olympic Safi have conceded only 9 goals. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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RSB Berkane form and stats

6 wins, 7 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of RSB Berkane, who have the fewest conceded goals (9) away in Botola Pro, playing as the away team in the Botola Pro this season. Berkane are enjoying a nice run from their away games now, having played eight in a row without losing.

Z. Krouch, M. Aziz, Z. Hadraf and H. Laachir scored in Berkane's previous match, the home game against Moghreb Tetouan that ended 4-1. Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Raja Casablanca that ended 2-2.

The visitors have scored 10 goals from 14 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Berkane are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 9 times in 14 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the RSB Berkane - Olympic 1-1 earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Olympic victories, one draw and six RSB Berkane wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, eight matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

RSB BerkaneM. Aziz
M. Aziz
10 goals
OlympicW. Sabbar
W. Sabbar
6 goals
Olympic SafiA. Al Gaadaoui
A. Al Gaadaoui
6 goals

Olympic Safi missing players

RSB Berkane missing players

Olympic Safi RSB Berkane
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
29 14 4 Played P 5 14 29
6 5 0 Won W 2 6 14
15 7 3 Drew D 3 7 12
8 2 1 Lost L 0 1 3
25 12 2 Scored S 3 10 34
33 9 3 Conceded C 1 9 23
79% 71% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 60% 71% 86%
59% 43% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 20% 29% 55%
28% 21% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 14% 31%
21% 14% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 14% 17%
7% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 7% 7%
52% 36% 50% BTTS BTTS 20% 21% 48%
38% 64% 50% Clean Sheets C S 80% 71% 45%
31% 29% 50% Failed to Score F T 40% 36% 21%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2 2.1 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.8 2.6 2.3
4 0 0 Red cards R C 1 5 7
 
178 97 12 Total Shots T S 18 42 143
69 34 4 Shots on Target S O 11 26 70
36% 35% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 27% 38% 49%
Key stats in Botola Pro this season:
  • RSB Berkane has the fewest conceded goals (9) away in Botola Pro
  • RSB Berkane has the most clean sheets (10) away 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 Raja Casablanca 29 16 9 4 41 22 14 10 2 2 22 10 15 6 7 2 19 12 19 57
2 Wydad Casablanca 29 16 8 5 50 27 15 9 4 2 28 13 14 7 4 3 22 14 23 56
3 RSB Berkane 29 14 12 3 34 23 15 8 5 2 24 14 14 6 7 1 10 9 11 54
4 FUS Rabat 29 13 10 6 38 28 14 9 3 2 22 13 15 4 7 4 16 15 10 49
5 FAR Rabat 29 12 9 8 44 32 15 6 5 4 21 15 14 6 4 4 23 17 12 45
6 Mouloudia Oujda 29 11 12 6 34 28 15 9 4 2 21 12 14 2 8 4 13 16 6 45
7 Moghreb Tetouan 29 9 10 10 28 26 14 7 6 1 16 5 15 2 4 9 12 21 2 37
8 Hassania Agadir 29 9 9 11 34 37 14 6 4 4 17 15 15 3 5 7 17 22 -3 36
9 Difaa El Jadida 29 8 11 10 26 27 15 5 7 3 14 11 14 3 4 7 12 16 -1 35
10 CR Khemis Zemamra 29 8 9 12 39 40 14 5 4 5 21 16 15 3 5 7 18 24 -1 33
11 Rapide Oued Zem 29 8 9 12 25 27 14 6 6 2 16 10 15 2 3 10 9 17 -2 33
12 Olympic Safi 29 6 15 8 25 33 14 5 7 2 12 9 15 1 8 6 13 24 -8 33
13 Youssoufia Berrechid 29 9 6 14 32 44 14 7 4 3 22 18 15 2 2 11 10 26 -12 33
14 Ittihad Tanger 29 7 11 11 17 31 15 4 8 3 11 12 14 3 3 8 6 19 -14 32
15 Khouribga 29 6 10 13 23 36 15 4 5 6 13 18 14 2 5 7 10 18 -13 28
16 Raja Beni Mellal 29 1 8 20 12 41 15 1 5 9 9 22 14 0 3 11 3 19 -29 11

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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.