Betting preview: Riadi Salmi vs Difaâ El Jadida - predictions and stats

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Competition: Morocco Botola Pro
Competition: Fri 07.April
Match begins: 22:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Al Bachir (12000 seats)

Botola Pro: What this game might lack in style it should compensate in effort and attitude. Get set for Riadi Salmi - Difaâ El Jadida!

Insights:
  • Difaâ El Jadida is in the worst form (0-1-5)

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.

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Riadi Salmi form and stats

With 2 Botola Pro wins, 4 draws and 4 defeats from their home games, Riadi Salmi are certainly not brimming with confidence.

A nice win for Riadi Salmi last time playing, versus Difaâ El Jadida. That was also a home game and the match ended 1-0.

Before that match, a win away at RSB Berkane.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Riadi have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 11 matches with the results: Won 6, drawn 3 and lost 2.

Sports bettors who enjoy staking for low-scoring games might like to know that this team have played 7 league fixtures in a row with two goals or less (under 2.5).

Riadi Salmi have scored {8 league goals} here from 10 matches, not a lot. Riadi's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 12 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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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 6 points returning home. The records show 1-3-6 (win-draw-lose). Bitter travels for Difaâ El Jadida as they have lost five games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Mouloudia Oujda match.

Jadida are travelling again after losing away to Riadi Salmi in their previous match (0-1).

Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against Moghreb Tetouan.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Difaâ El Jadida playing away and similar expectations, we found 17 relevant matches. Results were 4 Difaâ El Jadida wins, 4 draws and 9 defeats.

Jadida struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 19 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

The teams involved encountered each other earlier on this season: Difaâ El Jadida - Riadi Salmi 0-0. Head-2-head stats last three meetings: one - one - one (Riadi wins - draws - Difaâ El Jadida wins). As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Riadi SalmiG. Sillah
G. Sillah
6 goals
Difaâ El JadidaA. Farah
A. Farah
5 goals
Riadi SalmiK. Ait Ouarkhane
K. Ait Ouarkhane
2 goals

Riadi Salmi missing players

Difaâ El Jadida missing players

Riadi Salmi Difaâ El Jadida
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
22 11 4 Played P 4 11 22
8 3 2 Won W 0 1 5
7 4 1 Drew D 0 3 7
7 4 1 Lost L 4 7 10
22 9 4 Scored S 3 10 18
22 12 3 Conceded C 8 20 29
91% 91% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 91% 82%
59% 64% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 73% 55%
23% 18% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 64% 50%
9% 9% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 36% 23%
9% 9% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 9% 5%
41% 45% 25% BTTS BTTS 75% 73% 50%
36% 27% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 9% 27%
32% 36% 50% Failed to Score F T 25% 27% 41%
 
3.7 3.8 7 Corners for (avg) C F 5.2 4.3 3.9
4 2.9 2 Corners against (avg) C A 4.5 5.3 4.6
2.6 2.6 3.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.8 2.3 2
4 2 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
7.9 9 13 Shots (avg) S ( 8 7.5 7.4
3.3 3.8 5.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.2 2.8 2.7
30% 21% 19% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 32% 30%
 
7.8 6.5 7 Shots against (avg) S A 11 10 9.5
3.1 2.7 2.2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 4.4 3.6
Key stats in Botola Pro this season:
  • Difaâ El Jadida have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Difaâ El Jadida have the fewest matches under the total-line (10) in Botola Pro
  • Difaâ El Jadida have the most matches over the total-line (11) in Botola Pro
  • Difaâ El Jadida is in the worst form (0-1-5)

  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 21 14 5 2 37 12 11 8 2 1 24 8 10 6 3 1 13 4 25 47
2 Wydad Casablanca 21 12 7 2 30 16 10 7 2 1 16 6 11 5 5 1 14 10 14 43
3 FUS Rabat 21 10 8 3 23 11 10 5 4 1 13 6 11 5 4 2 10 5 12 38
4 Raja Casablanca 21 9 7 5 25 17 11 7 4 0 16 7 10 2 3 5 9 10 8 34
5 Olympic Safi 21 8 9 4 23 19 10 3 6 1 10 7 11 5 3 3 13 12 4 33
6 UTS Rabat 21 8 6 7 19 21 11 6 2 3 11 7 10 2 4 4 8 14 -2 30
7 Maghreb Fès 21 6 11 4 23 19 10 4 5 1 10 5 11 2 6 3 13 14 4 29
8 RSB Berkane 21 7 8 6 19 21 11 4 2 5 13 16 10 3 6 1 6 5 -2 29
9 Riadi Salmi 21 7 7 7 21 22 10 2 4 4 8 12 11 5 3 3 13 10 -1 28
10 Chabab Mohammedia 21 6 6 9 17 22 11 3 5 3 12 14 10 3 1 6 5 8 -5 24
11 Moghreb Tetouan 21 4 11 6 21 27 11 3 5 3 10 13 10 1 6 3 11 14 -6 23
12 Difaâ El Jadida 21 5 7 9 18 28 11 4 4 3 8 9 10 1 3 6 10 19 -10 22
13 Mouloudia Oujda 21 5 5 11 22 26 10 1 4 5 8 11 11 4 1 6 14 15 -4 20
14 Hassania Agadir 21 5 5 11 16 23 11 3 4 4 10 11 10 2 1 7 6 12 -7 20
15 Khouribga 21 2 10 9 16 24 10 2 3 5 9 12 11 0 7 4 7 12 -8 16
16 Ittihad Tanger 21 3 2 16 10 32 10 3 1 6 7 11 11 0 1 10 3 21 -22 11

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.