Evenly matched teams: Chindia Târgovişte vs Voluntari match preview

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Competition: Romania Liga 1
Competition: Mon 13.March
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)
Venue: Centrul de Fotbal Buftea (9513 seats)

Chindia Târgovişte are banking on their home crowd to support them when playing this meeting versus Voluntari. Who wins at Centrul de Fotbal Buftea?

Insights:
  • Chindia Târgovişte have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Voluntari have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Chindia Târgovişte and Voluntari should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Chindia Târgovişte form and stats

The story so far in the Liga 1 for Chindia Târgovişte at their home stadium (Centrul de Fotbal Buftea) is 3 wins, 7 draws and 4 defeats. Two draws in a row at home now for Chindia Târgovişte.

Times are rough for the home team, having gone 270 minutes without scoring a league goal. Boldor was the last player to find the net.

No payout for Târgovişte in their previous match, an away game at Mioveni that ended in defeat 0-2.

Preceding that game was the home draw versus U Craiova 1948 that ended 0-0.

This is expected to be a close game, with Chindia Târgovişte perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Chindia Târgovişte as a small favourite), we find 9 games. Chindia Târgovişte has won 2 of these, drawn 4 and lost 3.

The Chindia Târgovişte fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 16 in 14 matches. 19 goals have been conceded.

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Voluntari form and stats

There's been little loot from Voluntari's travels as they have only collected 14 points from 14 away games in the Liga 1. Voluntari only have 3 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 5 draws.

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Voluntari goalkeeper Mihai Maximilian Popa is eager to challenge this, with his 299 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Voluntari delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Arges (placed 15th) in their previous game.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Mioveni with the score of 3-0.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 12 similar matches played by Voluntari in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Voluntari, 3 draws and 4 defeats.

20 goals have been conceded by Voluntari in these games.

Head 2 Head

This isn't the first time these sides meet this season, as the results database show this recent game: Voluntari - Târgovişte 0-3. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Chindia Târgovişte five wins, two draws and Voluntari three victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

TârgovişteD. Popadiuc
D. Popadiuc
7 goals
VoluntariA. Nemec
A. Nemec
7 goals
VoluntariV. Damaşcan
V. Damaşcan
7 goals

Chindia Târgovişte missing players

Voluntari missing players

Chindia Târgovişte Voluntari
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
29 14 4 Played P 5 14 29
7 3 0 Won W 2 3 8
10 7 2 Drew D 2 5 9
12 4 2 Lost L 1 6 12
31 16 5 Scored S 6 14 27
41 19 7 Conceded C 3 20 31
93% 93% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 80% 93% 86%
79% 86% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 60% 79% 59%
45% 43% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 40% 50% 41%
21% 21% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 14% 10%
10% 7% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 7% 3%
55% 71% 75% BTTS BTTS 40% 64% 41%
21% 14% 25% Clean Sheets C S 60% 29% 38%
31% 21% 25% Failed to Score F T 20% 14% 34%
 
3.5 4.4 4.8 Corners for (avg) C F 4.4 3.3 3.7
4.6 3.3 3.2 Corners against (avg) C A 3.8 4.7 4.6
2.2 2.1 2.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.6 2.4 2.2
4 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
10.3 10.8 9.2 Shots (avg) S ( 11.4 8.5 8.6
4.1 4.1 4.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.6 2.9 2.7
26% 28% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 35% 34%
 
9.5 7.8 8.2 Shots against (avg) S A 12.2 14.4 12.7
4.2 3.4 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.4 5.3 4.3
Key stats in Liga 1 this season:
  • Chindia Târgovişte have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Voluntari have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

  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 29 18 7 4 52 27 14 11 2 1 30 8 15 7 5 3 22 19 25 61
2 CFR Cluj 29 19 3 7 50 28 14 10 0 4 25 12 15 9 3 3 25 16 22 60
3 FCSB 29 16 6 7 50 35 14 7 5 2 29 18 15 9 1 5 21 17 15 54
4 Rapid Bucuresti 29 15 7 7 39 24 15 10 3 2 27 12 14 5 4 5 12 12 15 52
5 Universitatea Craiova 29 15 6 8 35 26 14 10 2 2 22 11 15 5 4 6 13 15 9 51
6 Sepsi 29 11 9 9 46 29 15 6 4 5 26 13 14 5 5 4 20 16 17 42
7 U Craiova 1948 29 11 7 11 34 31 15 8 2 5 20 13 14 3 5 6 14 18 3 40
8 Universitatea Cluj 29 8 10 11 25 33 15 6 6 3 16 11 14 2 4 8 9 22 -8 34
9 Voluntari 29 8 9 12 27 31 15 5 4 6 13 11 14 3 5 6 14 20 -4 33
10 Petrolul 52 29 10 3 16 27 44 15 6 3 6 17 18 14 4 0 10 10 26 -17 33
11 Chindia Târgovişte 29 7 10 12 31 41 14 3 7 4 16 19 15 4 3 8 15 22 -10 31
12 Botosani 29 7 10 12 28 43 14 4 6 4 18 14 15 3 4 8 10 29 -15 31
13 Hermannstadt 29 10 8 11 29 29 14 5 3 6 17 14 15 5 5 5 12 15 0 29
14 UTA Arad 29 6 9 14 28 39 15 5 4 6 20 20 14 1 5 8 8 19 -11 27
15 Arges 29 6 9 14 21 40 14 4 4 6 12 18 15 2 5 8 9 22 -19 27
16 Mioveni 29 4 9 16 22 44 15 2 6 7 8 16 14 2 3 9 14 28 -22 21

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.