Liga 1: Tipsway are looking at an interesting and crucial battle starring Chindia Târgovişte and UTA Arad at Stadionul Eugen Popescu. Both teams need the win!
- Chindia Târgovişte have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- UTA Arad have the fewest clean sheets (5) in Liga 1
This football field has the surface grass, unlike UTA Arad's home ground. The last 38 games by the away team on grass have given 9 wins, 14 draws and 15 losses.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Chindia Târgovişte form and stats
When playing at home in the Liga 1, Chindia Târgovişte have managed 3 wins, 8 draws and suffered 4 defeats from 15 games.
In their previous game, the manager Petrea led his Târgovişte to a defeat away at Argeş. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Stadionul Eugen Popescu.
Preceding that match was the home game against Hermannstadt that was lost 1-2.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 Chindia Târgovişte have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 9 matches with the results: Won 1, drawn 4 and lost 4.
Chindia Târgovişte are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 17 goals in 15 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Târgovişte's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 20 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
UTA Arad form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for UTA Arad so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 1-5-9 (win-draw-lose). Travelling has not been lucrative for the away team as they have returned home without a win in eleven away games in a row.
This fixture can not go any worse than the previous one, the home loss versus Botosani with 0-2 on the scoreboard.
Before that, UTA Arad travelled to Voluntari and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 14 similar matches played by UTA Arad in our archives, and the results are: 3 wins for UTA Arad, 5 draws and 6 defeats.
Arad have another game that requires travelling in just four sleeps, a Romania Cup fixture vs Universitatea Cluj. A hard timetable for the visiting team!
The attacking power of UTA Arad when travelling is not overwhelming with 9 goals scored from 15 league matches away. 21 goals have been conceded by UTA Arad in these games.
Head 2 Head
The last head-to-head encounter ended Târgovişte - UTA Arad 2-1, earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Chindia Târgovişte five wins, three draws and UTA Arad two victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  D. Popadiuc 7 goals |  D. Popa 7 goals |  V. Postolachi 7 goals |
Chindia Târgovişte missing players
UTA Arad missing players
| Chindia Târgovişte | UTA Arad | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 34 | 16 | 5 | Played | P | 4 | 17 | 34 |
| 8 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 11 | 8 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | 10 |
| 15 | 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 10 | 17 |
| 34 | 18 | 6 | Scored | S | 3 | 10 | 32 |
| 46 | 22 | 6 | Conceded | C | 4 | 23 | 45 |
| 94% | 94% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 82% | 91% |
| 74% | 88% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 71% | 79% |
| 41% | 44% | 40% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 41% | 44% |
| 18% | 19% | 20% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 9% |
| 9% | 6% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 3% |
| 53% | 75% | 80% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 53% | 62% |
| 21% | 12% | 20% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 18% | 15% |
| 32% | 19% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 47% | 32% |
| 3.9 | 4.4 | 4.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.2 | 4.8 | 4.9 |
| 4.4 | 3.4 | 3.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.8 | 3.1 | 3.8 |
| 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.5 | 2.6 | 2.4 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 10.4 | 10.9 | 12.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.5 | 8.2 | 9.4 |
| 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 3 | 3.6 |
| 24% | 26% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 18% | 20% | 26% |
| 9.4 | 8.2 | 7.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.8 | 9.9 | 10.3 |
| 4 | 3.3 | 2.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.5 | 4.1 |
- Chindia Târgovişte have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- UTA Arad have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- UTA Arad have the fewest clean sheets (5) in Liga 1
- UTA Arad have the fewest points (8) away in Liga 1
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | SSC Farul | 30 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 54 | 28 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 32 | 9 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 22 | 19 | 26 | 64 |
| 2 | CFR Cluj | 30 | 20 | 3 | 7 | 54 | 28 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 29 | 12 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 16 | 26 | 63 |
| 3 | FCSB | 30 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 51 | 35 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 30 | 18 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 21 | 17 | 16 | 57 |
| 4 | Universitatea Craiova | 30 | 16 | 6 | 8 | 37 | 27 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 10 | 54 |
| 5 | Rapid Bucuresti | 30 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 40 | 26 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 27 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 52 |
| 6 | Sepsi | 30 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 47 | 30 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 27 | 13 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 17 | 17 | 42 |
| 7 | U Craiova 1948 | 30 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 34 | 33 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 13 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 20 | 1 | 40 |
| 8 | Petrolul 52 | 30 | 11 | 3 | 16 | 28 | 44 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 18 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 11 | 26 | -16 | 36 |
| 9 | Voluntari | 30 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 28 | 32 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 21 | -4 | 34 |
| 10 | Universitatea Cluj | 30 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 25 | 37 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 26 | -12 | 34 |
| 11 | Hermannstadt | 30 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 30 | 29 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 1 | 32 |
| 12 | Chindia Târgovişte | 30 | 7 | 11 | 12 | 32 | 42 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 17 | 20 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 22 | -10 | 32 |
| 13 | Botosani | 30 | 7 | 11 | 12 | 29 | 44 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 19 | 15 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 29 | -15 | 32 |
| 14 | UTA Arad | 30 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 29 | 41 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 21 | -12 | 27 |
| 15 | Argeş | 30 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 21 | 41 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 19 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 22 | -20 | 27 |
| 16 | Mioveni | 30 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 23 | 45 | 15 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 29 | -22 | 22 |
