UTA Arad will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 11 points behind Universitatea Craiova.
- UTA Arad have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Universitatea Craiova has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in Liga 1
UTA Arad and Universitatea Craiova should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Universitatea Craiova have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 1-0-0 (win-draw-loss) from one match.
UTA Arad form and stats
Overall Liga 1 stats at home this season for UTA Arad are 1-2-2 (wins-draw-losses).
In their previous game, the manager L. Balint led his Arad to a defeat in the Liga 1 match away at FCSB. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Stadionul Francisc von Neumann. In the preceding match a 2-0 victory visiting Csikszereda.
There will be little rest for UTA Arad after this match as they are travelling to Sepsi for a Liga 1 game in only three days.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Arad here at Stadionul Francisc von Neumann in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (4 from 5 games). UTA Arad have conceded 6 in these home matches.
Universitatea Craiova form and stats
The away performances of Universitatea Craiova have been very solid so far with 5 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats in the Liga 1. The question is whether this happy travelling can continue.
Impressive finishing from Alexandru Cicâldău, Reagy Ofosu and Cristian Bărbuț secured the home win 3-1 against Gaz Metan Mediaş in their previous game. Before that one, a nice away victory 5-0 at Progresul Spartac.
A quick return to home after this game, as Universitatea are hosting FCSB in the Liga 1 only four days away.
The travelling fans enjoy Universitatea's attacking play in away games, having scored 9 goals in 6 league matches away. Universitatea Craiova's manager C. Papură has created a great defensive setup working very nicely in away games with only 2 conceded goals. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Arad three wins, three draws and Universitatea Craiova four victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), eight games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  E. Koljič 6 goals | A. Cicâldău 5 goals |   A. Hora 3 goals |
UTA Arad missing players
Universitatea Craiova missing players
| UTA Arad | Universitatea Craiova | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 12 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 4 | 9 | 17 |
| 14 | 6 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 83% | 60% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 83% | 92% |
| 58% | 40% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 33% | 42% |
| 33% | 40% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 25% | 40% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 17% | 17% |
| 17% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 17% | 8% |
| 50% | 40% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 42% | 60% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 67% | 50% |
| 25% | 40% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 25% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.7 | 2.8 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 2 | 1.2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7.8 | 10 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 17 | 13.5 | 13.2 |
| 3.1 | 3.4 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7 | 5.2 | 5.4 |
| 32% | 24% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 57% | 29% | 26% |
- UTA Arad have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Universitatea Craiova has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in Liga 1
- Universitatea Craiova have not yet lost a game away.
- Universitatea Craiova have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Universitatea Craiova have scored at least twice as many goals away as UTA Arad have scored home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | FCSB | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 34 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 22 | 30 |
| 2 | Universitatea Craiova | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 28 |
| 3 | CFR Cluj | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 24 |
| 4 | Sepsi | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 20 |
| 5 | Academica Clinceni | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 20 |
| 6 | UTA Arad | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 8 | -2 | 17 |
| 7 | Viitorul | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 16 |
| 8 | Chindia Târgovişte | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | -2 | 15 |
| 9 | Voluntari | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -2 | 14 |
| 10 | Gaz Metan Mediaş | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 18 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 11 | -2 | 13 |
| 11 | Botoşani | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 14 | -2 | 13 |
| 12 | Dinamo Bucureşti | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 9 | -1 | 12 |
| 13 | Hermannstadt | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 10 | -5 | 11 |
| 14 | CSM Iaşi | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 31 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 15 | -19 | 10 |
| 15 | Astra | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -9 | 9 |
| 16 | Arges | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -9 | 9 |