It's the second chance for points this season as Botoşani and CSM Iaşi battle it out at Stadionul Municipal.
There haven't been much time to rest for the hosts, as they played a Europa League match only three days ago. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Ordabasy.
Botoşani form and stats
A strong away win for Botoşani against Ordabasy the last match, as Marko Dugandžić and Marcel Holzmann were on target. Before that match, a Liga 1 win away at Arges.
The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Botoşani matches with similar probabilities have ended with one win, zero draws and zero defeats (from one game).
Last season, Botoşani's league statistics were 12 wins, 9 draws and 5 losses, resulting in a 3rd position in the Liga 1. Over these 26 matches they scored 36 goals and conceded 30. Playing at home last season Botoşani managed 6-4-3 (win-draw-lost) with 18 goals and 16 conceded.
CSM Iaşi form and stats
Impressive finishing from J. Passaglia secured the home win 1-0 against Chindia Targoviste in their previous game. A 2-2 draw at Hermannstadt's stadium before that.
As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and CSM Iaşi playing away, we found four games. Results were three away wins, one draw and zero home wins.
Let's have a look at how CSM Iaşi performed last season in the Liga 1: They landed a 12th position in the league table after playing out 5 victories, 7 draws and 14 defeats. In total they scored 26 and conceded 40 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 1 - drew 3 and lost 9 with 9/20 goals scored/conceded.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - two - four (Botoşani wins - draws - CSM Iaşi wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  G. Cimpanu 1 goals |  M. Roman 1 goals |   J. Passaglia 1 goals |
Botoşani missing players
CSM Iaşi missing players
| Botoşani | CSM Iaşi | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | 0 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 8 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 38% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| Botoşani | Last season | CSM Iaşi | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 36 | 18 | Played | P | 20 | 40 | ||
| 14 | 7 | Won | W | 2 | 10 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Drew | D | 6 | 11 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Lost | L | 12 | 19 | ||
| 46 | 24 | Scored | S | 16 | 43 | ||
| 42 | 23 | Conceded | C | 30 | 57 | ||
| 94% | 94% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 95% | 95% | ||
| 75% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 70% | 72% | ||
| 44% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 45% | 50% | ||
| 22% | 22% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 15% | 20% | ||
| 8% | 11% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 5% | 8% | ||
| 56% | 61% | BTTS | BTTS | 55% | 57% | ||
| 28% | 17% | Clean Sheets | C S | 10% | 20% | ||
| 22% | 28% | Failed to Score | F T | 40% | 28% | ||
| 5.7 | 5.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.8 | 4.3 | ||
| 3.7 | 3.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.8 | 5.8 | ||
| 2.7 | 2.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.9 | 2.8 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 3 | ||
| 421 | 236 | Total Shots | T S | 161 | 367 | ||
| 167 | 89 | Shots on Target | S O | 69 | 158 | ||
| 28% | 27% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 23% | 27% | ||
| 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | Botoşani | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | CFR Cluj | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Voluntari | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | CSM Iaşi | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Universitatea Craiova | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Dinamo Bucuresti | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Hermannstadt | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | UTA Arad | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Viitorul | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Arges | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 12 | Academica Clinceni | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 13 | Gaz Metan Medias | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 14 | Chindia Targoviste | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 15 | Sepsi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 16 | Astra | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -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 | CFR Cluj | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 10 | 49 |
| 2 | Universitatea Craiova | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 44 |
| 3 | Astra | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 33 |
| 4 | Botoşani | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | -2 | 32 |
| 5 | FCSB | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | -1 | 31 |
| 6 | Gaz Metan Medias | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -14 | 25 |