Stade Municipal: Rapide Oued Zem vs Difaâ El Jadida Botola Pro preview

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Competition: Morocco Botola Pro
Competition: Sat 03.October
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Municipal (8000 seats)

Rapide Oued Zem hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 30 points and a 12th position in the Botola Pro table. Visiting Difaâ El Jadida holds 7th place with 35 pts.

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 Rapide and Difaâ El Jadida.

This stadium uses artifical turf, unlike Difaâ El Jadida's home stadium. The visitors last twelve games on artifical turf have ended in 1 win, 7 draws and 4 losses.

Rapide are fighting like crazy to avoid relegation and desperately need points in this fixture. Jadida are fighting to avoid relegation and will work hard for points.

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Rapide Oued Zem form and stats

Rapide Oued Zem have played 13 Botola Pro games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 5-6-2 (wins-draws-losses).

Heartbreak before that as Rapide lost 0-1 at Raja Casablanca's place.

The manager M. Chebil will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Wydad Casablanca in only four days.

The Rapide fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 15 in 13 matches. Rapide are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stade Municipal in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 10 from 13 matches.

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Difaâ El Jadida form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Difaâ El Jadida so far with only 13 points returning home. The records show 3-4-6 (win-draw-lose).

A 1-3 defeat away at Raja Casablanca before that.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting FUS Rabat in just three days.

The visitors have scored 12 goals from 13 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. As opposed to that, Jadida have seen the ball go into their own net 15 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Difaâ El Jadida - Rapide 1-1 entered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last five matches): Rapide zero wins, three draws and Difaâ El Jadida two victories. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

RapideB. El Bahraoui
B. El Bahraoui
9 goals
Difaâ El JadidaS. Msuva
S. Msuva
5 goals
Difaâ El JadidaY. Dahbi
Y. Dahbi
4 goals

Rapide Oued Zem missing players

Difaâ El Jadida missing players

Rapide Oued Zem Difaâ El Jadida
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
27 13 4 Played P 4 13 27
7 5 3 Won W 0 3 8
9 6 1 Drew D 2 4 11
11 2 0 Lost L 2 6 8
23 15 8 Scored S 0 12 25
25 10 5 Conceded C 2 15 24
74% 62% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 85% 81%
48% 54% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 62% 59%
37% 54% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 46% 33%
19% 23% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 15% 7%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
37% 54% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 62% 56%
33% 38% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 23% 33%
56% 46% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 31% 30%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.1 2 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 2.2 2
5 1 1 Red cards R C 2 4 7
 
101 43 18 Total Shots T S 28 63 133
48 23 11 Shots on Target S O 10 27 56
48% 65% 73% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 44% 45%
Key stats in Botola Pro this season:
  • Difaâ El Jadida have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Rapide Oued Zem has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Botola Pro
  • Rapide Oued Zem 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 Raja Casablanca 27 15 8 4 37 19 13 10 1 2 20 8 14 5 7 2 17 11 18 53
2 Wydad Casablanca 27 15 7 5 47 25 14 8 4 2 26 12 13 7 3 3 21 13 22 52
3 RSB Berkane 27 13 11 3 28 20 14 7 5 2 20 13 13 6 6 1 8 7 8 50
4 FUS Rabat 27 11 10 6 35 27 13 8 3 2 21 13 14 3 7 4 14 14 8 43
5 Mouloudia Oujda 27 10 12 5 33 24 14 8 4 2 20 12 13 2 8 3 13 12 9 42
6 FAR Rabat 27 10 9 8 36 30 14 5 5 4 16 13 13 5 4 4 20 17 6 39
7 Difaâ El Jadida 27 8 11 8 25 24 14 5 7 2 13 9 13 3 4 6 12 15 1 35
8 Moghreb Tetouan 27 8 10 9 23 22 13 6 6 1 12 5 14 2 4 8 11 17 1 34
9 Hassania Agadir 27 9 7 11 33 36 13 6 3 4 16 14 14 3 4 7 17 22 -3 34
10 CR Khemis Zemamra 27 8 8 11 37 35 13 5 3 5 21 16 14 3 5 6 16 19 2 32
11 Olympic Safi 27 6 14 7 25 32 13 5 6 2 12 9 14 1 8 5 13 23 -7 32
12 Rapide Oued Zem 27 7 9 11 23 25 13 5 6 2 15 10 14 2 3 9 8 15 -2 30
13 Youssoufia Berrechid 27 8 6 13 30 43 14 7 4 3 22 18 13 1 2 10 8 25 -13 30
14 Ittihad Tanger 27 7 9 11 17 31 14 4 7 3 11 12 13 3 2 8 6 19 -14 30
15 Khouribga 27 6 9 12 22 34 14 4 5 5 12 16 13 2 4 7 10 18 -12 27
16 Raja Beni Mellal 27 1 8 18 12 36 13 1 5 7 9 17 14 0 3 11 3 19 -24 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.