Riadi Salmi vs Ittihad Tanger match preview: Even contest expected at Stade Al Bachir

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Competition: Morocco Botola Pro
Competition: Sat 28.January
Match begins: 19:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Al Bachir (12000 seats)

Botola Pro: What this game might miss in style it should compensate in pace and attitude. Let's go: Riadi Salmi - Ittihad Tanger!

Insights:
  • Ittihad Tanger have the fewest scored goals (5) in Botola Pro

It's no vacation for neither Riadi nor Ittihad Tanger as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Riadi Salmi form and stats

Riadi Salmi's results here at Stade Al Bachir in the Botola Pro have been very modest with 1 victory, 3 draws and 3 defeats.

Riadi Salmi travelled for their previous game, a trip to Olympic Safi that ended 1-1.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Wydad Casablanca (0-1).

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 Salmi have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 9 matches with the results: Won 5, drawn 3 and lost 1.

Riadi Salmi aren't scoring a lot here at Stade Al Bachir in the league, with only {5 goals} from 7 games. Riadi's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 9 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Ittihad Tanger form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Ittihad Tanger so far with only 1 point returning home. The records show 0-1-7 (win-draw-lose). Ittihad Tanger are generally in trouble as the list of consecutive losses is growing into an ugly monster. Regardless of home/away, the visitors have now lost seven in a row. It's been 11 weeks since they last avoided defeat. (The Khouribga game.)

Kiani was the last player to score for the away team. Ittihad Tanger haven't scored a league goal in the last 208 minutes.

Two away games in a row for Ittihad Tanger, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-4 versus FAR Rabat. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against FAR Rabat was particularly ugly (0-4). The humiliation is still top of mind.

Preceding that, the 0-1 home loss versus Chabab Mohammedia.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 14 similar matches played by Ittihad Tanger in our archives, and the results are: 4 wins for Ittihad, 5 draws and 5 defeats.

Ittihad Tanger are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed {3 goals} from 8 away games. Ittihad have conceded 15 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Ittihad Tanger - Riadi Salmi 0-1 was the product when these two contenders last played each other, some time ago this season. Numbers for the previous three meetings involving these two squads are: one win for Riadi Salmi, zero draws and two wins for Ittihad Tanger. Over 2,5 goals: one time; under 2,5 goals: two games.

Top Goalscorers

Riadi SalmiG. Sillah
G. Sillah
4 goals
RiadiI. Riahi
I. Riahi
3 goals
Riadi SalmiK. Ait Ouarkhane
K. Ait Ouarkhane
2 goals

Riadi Salmi missing players

Ittihad Tanger missing players

Riadi Salmi Ittihad Tanger
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
15 7 2 Played P 2 8 15
5 1 1 Won W 0 0 0
6 3 1 Drew D 0 1 2
4 3 0 Lost L 2 7 13
17 5 2 Scored S 2 3 5
16 9 1 Conceded C 4 15 25
87% 86% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
60% 57% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 62% 53%
33% 29% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 50% 33%
13% 14% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 12% 13%
13% 14% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 7%
53% 57% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 38% 27%
33% 14% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 7%
27% 43% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 62% 73%
 
3.5 3.4 7.5 Corners for (avg) C F 5 3.1 3.8
4.3 4 3 Corners against (avg) C A 5 4.4 3.3
2.7 2.7 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.2 1.5
4 2 0 Red cards R C 0 3 4
 
8.1 9.3 15 Shots (avg) S ( 6.5 6.1 7
3.3 3.6 5.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 2.2 2.4
34% 20% 18% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 17% 9%
 
8.1 7.1 6 Shots against (avg) S A 11.5 11.2 9.8
3.3 3.3 1.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 5.1 4.1
Key stats in Botola Pro this season:
  • Ittihad Tanger have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Ittihad Tanger have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Ittihad Tanger have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Ittihad Tanger have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Botola Pro
  • Ittihad Tanger have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Botola Pro
  • Ittihad Tanger have the fewest points (1) away in Botola Pro
  • Ittihad Tanger have the fewest scored goals (5) in Botola Pro
  • Ittihad Tanger have the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) in Botola Pro
  • Ittihad Tanger have the most conceded goals (15) away in Botola Pro
  • Ittihad Tanger have the most conceded goals (25) in Botola Pro
  • Ittihad Tanger have the most conceded goals in the first half (12) in Botola Pro
  • Ittihad Tanger have the the worst goal difference (-12) away in Botola Pro
  • Ittihad Tanger have the the worst goal difference (-20) in Botola Pro
  • Ittihad Tanger have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Ittihad Tanger have yet to win a game.
  • Ittihad Tanger haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Ittihad Tanger is in the worst form (0-0-6)
  • Riadi Salmi have scored more than double the goals of Ittihad Tanger.

  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.