Football match preview: Aerostar Bacău vs Sporting Lieşti

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Competition: Romania 3. Liga: Series 2
Competition: Sat 25.March
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadionul Aerostar (1500 seats)

3. Liga: Series 2: The middle-of-the-table spots tell a story of the journey Aerostar Bacău and Sporting Lieşti have undertaken so far. Both squads are eager to play; bring it!

Insights:
  • Aerostar Bacău have the most scored goals (49) in 3. Liga: Series 2
  • Aerostar Bacău have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Sporting Lieşti have scored away.

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.

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Aerostar Bacău form and stats

Aerostar Bacău have collected 14 points from their 3. Liga: Series 2 home games so far after 4-2-2.

Aerostar are returning here after visiting Dacia Unirea Brăila and winning with a 6-0 scoreline. Finally, a league win after three fixtures without. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Aerostar Bacău played a great game against Dacia Unirea Brăila and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Olimpia Râmnicu Sărat (0-1).

It's goals goals goals for Aerostar Bacău who have scored 25 goals from 8 league home games. On the other hand, Aerostar have conceded 10 goals.

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Sporting Lieşti form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their 3. Liga: Series 2 travels is 3 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats.

Sporting Lieşti won their last game, 4-2 versus Dinamo Bacau played at home. As you can tell from the result, the match against Dinamo Bacau was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today?

Prior to that match, the Sporting Lieşti manager Niculcea faced defeat when travelling to Metalul Buzău and losing 0-5.

Observe that 9 of this side's 11 most recent league games have ended with three or more goals.

Lieşti has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 12 goals from 8 games.

Head 2 Head

The fixture lists shows this result when the teams met earlier this campaign; Sporting Lieşti - Aerostar Bacău 2-1. Data for the former ten meetings featuring these two participants are: eight wins for Aerostar Bacău, one draw and one win for Sporting Lieşti. Over 2,5 goals: seven times; under 2,5 goals: three games.

Aerostar Bacău missing players

Sporting Lieşti missing players

Aerostar Bacău Sporting Lieşti
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
17 8 1 Played P 1 8 17
9 4 0 Won W 0 3 8
4 2 1 Drew D 0 2 3
4 2 0 Lost L 1 3 6
49 25 0 Scored S 1 12 34
21 10 0 Conceded C 5 16 27
94% 88% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 94%
82% 75% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 76%
65% 62% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 62% 71%
53% 62% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 62% 53%
47% 62% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 50% 35%
65% 62% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 62% 53%
24% 25% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 29%
18% 25% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 24%
 
4 5.3 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 2 1.3
3 4 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 1.5 1
0.6 0.7 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0.5 0.3
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
3.4 3.7 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 7 4.7
1.8 2 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4 2.7
111% 50% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 12% 62%
 
3.6 3 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 5.5 3.7
2.2 2.7 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 2.5 1.7
Key stats in 3. Liga: Series 2 this season:
  • Aerostar Bacău have created more than twice as many corners as Sporting Lieşti.
  • Aerostar Bacău have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Aerostar Bacău have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Sporting Lieşti have scored away.
  • Aerostar Bacău have the most scored goals (49) in 3. Liga: Series 2
  • Aerostar Bacău have the most scored goals in the first half (28) in 3. Liga: Series 2
  • Aerostar Bacău have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Sporting Lieşti have won significantly more corners away than at 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 Olimpia Râmnicu Sărat 17 13 3 1 38 7 9 7 2 0 25 3 8 6 1 1 13 4 31 42
2 Metalul Buzău 17 12 2 3 44 10 8 6 1 1 29 5 9 6 1 2 15 5 34 38
3 Unirea Braniştea 17 11 1 5 27 15 8 6 1 1 12 4 9 5 0 4 15 11 12 34
4 Aerostar Bacău 17 9 4 4 49 21 8 4 2 2 25 10 9 5 2 2 24 11 28 31
5 Focsani 17 9 4 4 40 16 8 5 2 1 28 8 9 4 2 3 12 8 24 31
6 Sporting Lieşti 17 8 3 6 34 27 9 5 1 3 22 11 8 3 2 3 12 16 7 27
7 Viitorul Ianca 17 5 4 8 22 35 9 2 2 5 12 16 8 3 2 3 10 19 -13 19
8 Dinamo Bacau 17 4 1 12 25 42 8 2 0 6 9 14 9 2 1 6 16 28 -17 13
9 Vointa Limpezis 17 1 2 14 20 61 9 1 0 8 12 30 8 0 2 6 8 31 -41 5
10 Dacia Unirea Brăila 17 0 2 15 8 73 9 0 2 7 4 28 8 0 0 8 4 45 -65 2

Read more about 3. Liga: Series 2

The Liga III, also spelled Liga 3, is the third highest tier of football in Romania. It is divided into five divisions and each has 16 teams for a total of 80 contestants. The season runs from August to May and each team plays 30 fixtures. The top team of the league table in each division is promoted.