| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USM Alger | 15 | L2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7/15 | 7-5 |
| CA Bordj Bou Arreridj | 15 | W1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8/15 | 6-6 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 3 finished meetings (2007-12-17 – 2019-01-18) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-01-18 | CA Bordj Bou Arreridj | 1-1 | USM Alger |
| 2013-09-03 | USM Alger | 1-3 | CA Bordj Bou Arreridj |
| 2007-12-17 | CA Bordj Bou Arreridj | 1-0 | USM Alger |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USM Alger | 4 | 38 | 65 | 23 | WWLLW | 6 | -2 |
| CA Bordj Bou Arreridj | 19 | 38 | 22 | -38 | LLLLD | 19 | 0 |
Form rank = league-wide rank by points from the last 5 league games; "Form vs pos" > 0 means over-performing the table.
Figures computed from the GioScore results database · data cutoff: kickoff 2021-07-01
On paper the standings were lopsided — USM Alger 4th with 65 points, CA Bordj Bou Arreridj 19th with 22, 43 apart. Per game in the league, USM Alger were scoring 1.63 and conceding 1.03, CA Bordj Bou Arreridj 0.76 and 1.76, against a competition average of 1.19 goals per team per game.
The venue was Stade Omar Hamadi in Algiers, with room for 8,000 spectators. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 1-1 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 3-1.
