It's a brand new Liga 1 campaign and Botoşani are impatient to get on the pitch here at Stadionul Municipal. Chindia Târgovişte are coming to visit and this looks to be a riveting season opening night.
Botoşani form and stats
The season before, Botoşani's league results were 11 wins, 13 draws and 6 losses, resulting in 7th place in the Liga 1. From these 30 matches they scored 33 goals and conceded 28. Playing as the home team in the last season Botoşani delivered 6-6-3 (win-draw-lost) with 17 goals and 12 conceded.
The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Botoşani have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 9 games) they have won 3 times, drawn 5 and lost 1.
It's been an intense period of training leading up to this game for Botoşani, who have participated in five training matches. Botoşani have won 2 of these, drawn 1 and were beaten in 2 games.
Chindia Târgovişte form and stats
Let's have a look at how Chindia Târgovişte performed last season in the Liga 1: They landed a 11th position in the league table after playing out 8 victories, 11 draws and 11 defeats. In total they scored 23 and conceded 23 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 5 - drew 4 and lost 6 with 12/9 goals scored/conceded.
Chindia Târgovişte are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats. From a total of 8 matches.
It's a day of discovery for Târgovişte as they finally learn what impact all the hours of pre-season training, along with the changes in personnel, have had on their performance in an official game. It's never easy knowing what to expect based on friendly games, of which Chindia Târgovişte have played three with the results W2-D1-L0 (win-draw-lost). In these games Chindia Târgovişte has scored 4 goals and conceded 2 times.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last nine meetings: four - two - three (Botoşani wins - draws - Chindia Târgovişte wins). As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less. The matches between these teams have sometimes been brutal, having seen 5 sending-offs from the last nine duels.Botoşani missing players
Chindia Târgovişte missing players
| Botoşani | Chindia Târgovişte | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 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% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Botoşani | Last season | Chindia Târgovişte | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 40 | 20 | Played | P | 19 | 39 | ||
| 17 | 9 | Won | W | 6 | 10 | ||
| 13 | 6 | Drew | D | 4 | 13 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Lost | L | 9 | 16 | ||
| 51 | 27 | Scored | S | 16 | 31 | ||
| 39 | 17 | Conceded | C | 13 | 31 | ||
| 90% | 85% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 79% | 79% | ||
| 72% | 65% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 32% | 41% | ||
| 38% | 40% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 26% | 26% | ||
| 18% | 20% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 11% | 10% | ||
| 8% | 10% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 5% | 3% | ||
| 48% | 40% | BTTS | BTTS | 16% | 23% | ||
| 38% | 45% | Clean Sheets | C S | 53% | 46% | ||
| 25% | 30% | Failed to Score | F T | 53% | 51% | ||
| 4.2 | 4.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.4 | 3.6 | ||
| 4.6 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 4.3 | ||
| 2.5 | 2.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 5 | ||
| 9.8 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.8 | 9.7 | ||
| 4.2 | 4.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 3.9 | ||
| 30% | 28% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 22% | 20% | ||
| 9.7 | 8.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.6 | 9.6 | ||
| 3.6 | 3.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.4 | 3.2 | ||
| 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 | Sepsi | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 17 | 42 |
| 2 | Botoşani | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 41 |
| 3 | Rapid Bucuresti | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 39 |
| 4 | U Craiova 1948 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 34 |
| 5 | UTA Arad | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 33 |
| 6 | Mioveni | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 31 |
| 7 | Chindia Târgovişte | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 26 |
| 8 | Dinamo Bucuresti | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 23 |
| 9 | Academica Clinceni | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 32 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 22 | -28 | -23 |
| 10 | Gaz Metan Medias | 9 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 31 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 23 | -25 | -46 |
