The league table in Liga 1 tells a story about these teams so far, with Academica Clinceni leading UTA Arad by 6 points. Match preview to follow:
- Academica Clinceni has the most clean sheets (6) at home in Liga 1
- UTA Arad haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
UTA Arad could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Liga 1 game only four sleeps ago.
Academica's stadium, Stadionul Clinceni - Arena 1, has a grass surface. UTA Arad have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for UTA Arad when playing on grass; 15 wins, 11 draws and 14 losses from 40 matches. They have scored 51 goals in these games and conceded 49.
Academica Clinceni form and stats
5 victories, 3 draws and 2 defeats. That’s what Academica Clinceni, who have the most clean sheets (6) at home in Liga 1, have to build on here at Stadionul Clinceni - Arena 1 in the Liga 1.
Academica travelled for their previous game, a trip to Gaz Metan Medias that ended 1-1. Previous to that game, a home match hosting Botosani in a game that was won 2-1.
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 Academica Clinceni have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found five matches with the results: Won two, drawn two and lost one.
The manager I. Poenaru will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to FCSB in only three days.
The Academica fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 10 in 10 matches. Academica Clinceni are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stadionul Clinceni - Arena 1 in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 6 from 10 matches.
UTA Arad form and stats
5 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of UTA Arad playing as the away team in the Liga 1 this season. Momentum is building for Arad in their away games, having won their two previous outings.
Arad might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Dinamo Bucureşti proved too strong as UTA Arad slumped to a 0-1 defeat in front of their own fans at Stadionul Motorul. Preceding that game was the away victory against CSM Iasi with the score of 2-1.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found seven similar matches played by Arad in our archives, and the results are: two wins for UTA Arad, four draws and one defeat.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Hermannstadt in just three days.
Arad have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 10 league away games 11 goals have been scored. 12 goals have been conceded by UTA Arad in these games.
Head 2 Head
The two sides played each other earlier this season: UTA Arad - Academica 0-0. As for the last five games between these two teams, there's three Academica victories, one draw and one UTA Arad win. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  T. Chunchukov 4 goals |  E. Cebotaru 3 goals |   A. Hora 3 goals |
Academica Clinceni missing players
UTA Arad missing players
| Academica Clinceni | UTA Arad | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 10 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 10 | 20 |
| 7 | 5 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 9 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| 21 | 10 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 11 | 17 |
| 17 | 6 | 0 | Conceded | C | 6 | 12 | 29 |
| 75% | 80% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 85% |
| 60% | 60% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 70% | 60% |
| 30% | 20% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 40% | 45% |
| 15% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 10% | 20% |
| 5% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 10% | 15% |
| 40% | 30% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 45% |
| 55% | 60% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 30% | 35% |
| 30% | 30% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 20% | 35% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 2.8 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.3 | 2.6 | 2.7 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 9.1 | 8.9 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 3.7 | 8.1 | 8.9 |
| 3.1 | 2.4 | 1.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.3 | 3.7 | 3.1 |
| 33% | 42% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 30% | 27% |
- Academica Clinceni has the most clean sheets (6) at home in Liga 1
- UTA Arad haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| 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 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 47 | 19 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 28 | 45 |
| 2 | CFR Cluj | 19 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 26 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 17 | 41 |
| 3 | Universitatea Craiova | 20 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 23 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 37 |
| 4 | Sepsi | 20 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 33 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 17 | 11 | 13 | 33 |
| 5 | Academica Clinceni | 20 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 21 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 30 |
| 6 | Chindia Targoviste | 19 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 17 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 28 |
| 7 | Botosani | 20 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 28 | 25 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 17 | 3 | 27 |
| 8 | Viitorul | 20 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 28 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 19 | 18 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 25 |
| 9 | Dinamo Bucureşti | 20 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 23 | 24 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 14 | -1 | 25 |
| 10 | Gaz Metan Medias | 20 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 26 | 31 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 17 | -5 | 24 |
| 11 | UTA Arad | 20 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 29 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 12 | -12 | 24 |
| 12 | Arges | 20 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 19 | 27 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 14 | -8 | 20 |
| 13 | Astra | 20 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 25 | 31 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 17 | -6 | 19 |
| 14 | Voluntari | 20 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 24 | 33 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 19 | -9 | 17 |
| 15 | Hermannstadt | 20 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 19 | 30 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 15 | -11 | 17 |
| 16 | CSM Iasi | 20 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 18 | 44 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 19 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 25 | -26 | 15 |