SSC Farul have traveled here for an interesting fight against the hosts Rapid Bucuresti. Prepare for the match with this Liga 1 preview!
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Rapid Bucuresti form and stats
Rapid Bucuresti have only played one Liga 1 game here so far, a win. Last season their home statistics were 8 wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats from 15 matches.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Horatiu Moldovan not having conceded a league goal in 180 minutes.
Happy days for Rapid Bucuresti in their previous game, a Liga 1 match away at Mioveni (placed 16th) that ended with a 2-0 victory.
Previous to that game, a home match hosting Chindia Targoviste in a game that was won 1-0.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 Bucuresti have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found four matches with the results: Won two, drawn one and lost one.
Early season league goal statistics from Rapid Bucuresti's 1 home game: 1 goal, 0 conceded.
SSC Farul form and stats
As the visiting team in Liga 1 matches, SSC Farul have produced an overall stat of 0-1-0 so far.
The Farul goalkeeper Árpád Ors György Tordai is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 180 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Impressive finishing from Adrian Petre and Jefté Betancor secured the home win 2-0 against Gaz Metan Mediaş in their previous game.
Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to UTA Arad.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found seven similar matches played by Farul in our archives, and the results are: two wins for SSC Farul, zero draws and five defeats.
0 goals so far away for SSC Farul, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 0. All from 1 league match away.
Head 2 Head
Rapid Bucuresti-SSC Farul H2H statistics last four meetings regardless of arena: Rapid Bucuresti one win, SSC Farul one win, two draws. two of these four matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  A. Bălan 2 goals |
Rapid Bucuresti missing players
SSC Farul missing players
| Rapid Bucuresti | SSC Farul | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 4.5 | 5 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 3 | 4.5 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 8 | 6.5 |
| 1.5 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 3 | 3.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | 6 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2 | 3.5 |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 29% |
| Rapid Bucuresti | Last season | SSC Farul | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 30 | 15 | Played | P | 14 | 26 | ||
| 15 | 8 | Won | W | 7 | 12 | ||
| 5 | 4 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 10 | 3 | Lost | L | 4 | 8 | ||
| 48 | 26 | Scored | S | 19 | 34 | ||
| 40 | 18 | Conceded | C | 12 | 28 | ||
| 93% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 96% | ||
| 77% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 71% | 73% | ||
| 60% | 60% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 46% | ||
| 37% | 40% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 7% | 19% | ||
| 20% | 13% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 4% | ||
| 53% | 60% | BTTS | BTTS | 57% | 58% | ||
| 30% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 29% | 27% | ||
| 23% | 13% | Failed to Score | F T | 21% | 19% | ||
| 4.3 | 4.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.2 | 5.2 | ||
| 4.2 | 3.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 3.9 | ||
| 2.5 | 2.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.5 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 4 | ||
| 9.5 | 11.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.7 | 11.5 | ||
| 3.9 | 4.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.3 | 4.8 | ||
| 41% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 23% | 26% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Rapid Bucuresti | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | CFR Cluj | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | FCSB | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | SSC Farul | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | Botosani | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | UTA Arad | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Sepsi | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | Dinamo Bucuresti | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Gaz Metan Mediaş | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -1 | 3 |
| 10 | Universitatea Craiova | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -2 | 3 |
| 11 | U Craiova 1948 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 0 |
| 12 | Chindia Targoviste | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 13 | Voluntari | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -2 | 0 |
| 14 | Argeş | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 0 |
| 15 | Academica Clinceni | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -3 | 0 |
| 16 | Mioveni | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -3 | 0 |
| Last season | Total | Home | Away | ||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | U Craiova 1948 | 29 | 14 | 12 | 3 | 43 | 22 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 22 | 8 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 21 | 14 | 21 | 89 |
| 2 | Rapid Bucuresti | 30 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 48 | 40 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 26 | 18 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 22 | 22 | 8 | 83 |
| 3 | Mioveni | 30 | 12 | 13 | 5 | 41 | 22 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 15 | 8 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 26 | 14 | 19 | 82 |
| 4 | Dunarea Calarasi | 30 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 36 | 41 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 19 | 19 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 22 | -5 | 79 |
| 5 | Csikszereda | 30 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 32 | 26 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 75 |
| 6 | ASU Poli Timisoara | 29 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 27 | 29 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 14 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 18 | -2 | 73 |