Arba vs Saoura Prediction: Visiting Saoura are the better side

In this round of 19 fixtures in the Algerian Ligue 1, Arba will play host to Saoura at Stadium Sma'l-Makhlouf. The host team's most recent game resulted in a loss to MC Alger, while Saoura and Biskra played to a draw in their most recent contest.

Arbaa's previous competitions resulted in one victory against ES Sétif and four defeats against CR Belouizdad, USM Alger, and MC Oran and MC Alger, respectively. Throughout those encounters, Arbaa was only able to score four goals while allowing a total of 12 goals to be scored against them. During the current season of the league, Arbaa has scored 1.28 goals on average per game. In terms of disciplinary action, the away team was given one red card and 36 yellow cards during their match at home. RC Arbaa has some sort of problem with not being able to hold possession of the ball, as evidenced by their season-long average of only 43.93% possession.

Saoura comes into this match having won two of their most recent five matches against MC Oran and El Bayadh, while their other three matches against ES Sétif, MC Alger, and US Biskra have all ended in draws. During those encounters, the team had a combined total of five goals for and two goals against. When playing away from home, Saoura had a goal scoring average of 1.22 and a goals against average of 0.72. There were 49 yellow cards and two red cards handed out to the team. With an overall average of 50.10% ball possession so far this season, Saoura has shown exceptionally solid control of the ball.

The bookies will probably have Arba pegged for a better performance in this match, which means that the odds of winning are tight, but I won't be surprised if they're right. But there is no question that the away team, Saoura, is simply far superior to the home team, and there is no question that the away team should be able to pull off a difficult victory on the road. While I do believe that Arba will do well to not concede many goals, I also believe that they will still find it difficult to not concede at least two while finding it difficult to score goals of their own due to poor attacking play.