Liga 1 match prediction: Little separates Botoşani and SSC Farul in quality

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Competition: Romania Liga 1
Competition: Fri 29.October
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadionul Municipal (7782 seats)

Botoşani have played great football this season, proven by 4th place in the table. SSC Farul have an outlook both direction in the table from their 9th position.

Insights:
  • SSC Farul have yet to win a game away.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Botoşani form and stats

The story so far in the Liga 1 for Botoşani at their home stadium (Stadionul Municipal) is 2 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat. The trend of drawing games is also valid regardless of arena as Botoşani has four draws from their last four matches.

Botoşani drew their last game, 1-1 away at Mioveni (placed 12th).

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 0-0 versus Chindia Targoviste.

This is expected to be a close game, with Botoşani perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Botoşani as a small favourite), we find four games. Botoşani has won one of these, drawn two and lost one.

Botoşani aren't scoring a lot here at Stadionul Municipal in the league, with only 4 goals from 6 games. From these home matches, Botoşani have conceded only 4 goals.

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SSC Farul form and stats

There's been little loot from SSC Farul's travels as they have only collected 3 points from 7 away games in the Liga 1. SSC Farul only have 0 wins to counter their 4 defeats and 3 draws. The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on G. Hagi, the Farul manager, as the last three away games were defeats.

It might be tough going out on the road again for Farul, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 1-2 versus Argeş (placed 7th).

Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Voluntari's place.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found seven similar matches played by Farul in our archives, and the results are: two wins for SSC Farul, zero draws and five defeats.

There's been a serious shortage of goals from SSC Farul's away games in the league this season with only 2 goals from 7 matches. 7 goals have been conceded by Farul in these games.

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Botoşani missing players

SSC Farul missing players

Botoşani SSC Farul
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
13 6 3 Played P 2 7 12
6 2 1 Won W 0 0 5
6 3 1 Drew D 0 3 3
1 1 1 Lost L 2 4 4
13 4 2 Scored S 0 2 15
9 4 3 Conceded C 2 7 8
85% 67% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 71% 83%
62% 50% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 43% 58%
23% 17% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 14% 33%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 8%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 8%
54% 33% 33% BTTS BTTS 0% 29% 25%
38% 50% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 29% 50%
23% 50% 67% Failed to Score F T 100% 71% 42%
 
3.2 3.8 5.3 Corners for (avg) C F 5 5.6 5.2
5.2 4.7 3 Corners against (avg) C A 2.5 3.9 4.2
2.6 2.2 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.5 1.6 1.6
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
10.6 12 14.7 Shots (avg) S ( 9.5 9 9.8
4.4 5 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 2.3 3.1
23% 13% 11% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 12% 41%
Key stats in Liga 1 this season:
  • SSC Farul have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • SSC Farul have yet to win a 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 CFR Cluj 12 10 0 2 17 8 6 6 0 0 12 4 6 4 0 2 5 4 9 30
2 Universitatea Craiova 13 8 1 4 23 10 7 5 1 1 17 3 6 3 0 3 6 7 13 25
3 FCSB 12 7 3 2 23 11 6 5 1 0 19 5 6 2 2 2 4 6 12 24
4 Botoşani 13 6 6 1 13 9 6 2 3 1 4 4 7 4 3 0 9 5 4 24
5 Voluntari 13 8 0 5 17 15 7 5 0 2 10 5 6 3 0 3 7 10 2 24
6 Rapid Bucuresti 13 6 4 3 16 10 7 3 1 3 6 5 6 3 3 0 10 5 6 22
7 Argeş 13 6 3 4 12 7 6 2 1 3 3 4 7 4 2 1 9 3 5 21
8 UTA Arad 12 5 5 2 12 8 7 3 3 1 7 4 5 2 2 1 5 4 4 20
9 SSC Farul 12 5 3 4 15 8 5 5 0 0 13 1 7 0 3 4 2 7 7 18
10 Chindia Targoviste 13 3 5 5 8 9 6 2 2 2 6 5 7 1 3 3 2 4 -1 14
11 U Craiova 1948 13 3 3 7 10 14 6 2 2 2 4 4 7 1 1 5 6 10 -4 12
12 Mioveni 13 3 3 7 7 17 6 1 2 3 2 5 7 2 1 4 5 12 -10 12
13 Gaz Metan Medias 13 3 2 8 10 17 7 2 2 3 6 7 6 1 0 5 4 10 -7 11
14 Sepsi 12 1 7 4 10 13 7 1 3 3 7 9 5 0 4 1 3 4 -3 10
15 Dinamo Bucureşti 13 2 2 9 11 29 7 2 2 3 10 11 6 0 0 6 1 18 -18 8
16 Academica Clinceni 12 0 3 9 9 28 5 0 2 3 4 7 7 0 1 6 5 21 -19 3

Read more about Liga 1

The Liga I, also spelled Liga 1, is the top level of the football pyramid in Romania. It is also known as the Liga 1 Betano due to its sponsor. It has 14 teams playing 26 fixtures each to create a league table for the regular season. The top six teams then play a championship round, the last eight play a relegation round.