About Match
MC Alger go into the game 8th in the table on 3 points; USM Alger sit 1st on 7 — a 4-point gap. Per game in the league, MC Alger score 2 and conceding 0, USM Alger 1.67 and 0.67, against a competition average of 1.14 goals per team per game. Victory would move MC Alger to 6 points and up to 3rd, with other results unchanged.
USM Alger carry a 6-game unbeaten run into this.
10 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — MC Alger 6, draws 4, USM Alger 0, at 1 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 40% of meetings won. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 10% of the meetings went over two goals.
Ali La Pointe Stadium douera stages the fixture, a ground that holds 66,000.