Football betting preview: Dinamo Bucureşti vs UTA Arad

Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds
Competition: Romania Liga 1
Competition: Tue 20.April
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadionul Ştefan cel Mare (15400 seats)

Season ticket holders at Stadionul Ştefan cel Mare haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Dinamo Bucureşti languishing in the 14th position so far. The guesting UTA Arad will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.

Insights:
  • Dinamo Bucureşti is in the worst form (0-1-5)
  • UTA Arad have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Bucureşti and UTA Arad.

Bucureşti's stadium, Stadionul Ştefan cel Mare, has a grass surface. UTA Arad have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for UTA Arad when playing on grass; 15 wins, 13 draws and 14 losses from 42 matches. They have scored 55 goals in these games and conceded 52.

D L L L L

Dinamo Bucureşti form and stats

Dinamo Bucureşti's struggle is real here at Stadionul Ştefan cel Mare with only 13 points collected from 15 Liga 1 games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 3-4-8. All in all it has been a very rough period for Dinamo Bucureşti who hasn’t won a league-game in their last eleven attempts. Their previous win was against UTA Arad, 78 days ago. Three consecutive losses here at Stadionul Ştefan cel Mare is hard to swallow for the home team. Both players, staff and the home crowd are desperate to get something from this match.

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Astra (0-1).

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Bucureşti as they are travelling to their away game against Gaz Metan Medias in the Liga 1. That match is three days after this one.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Bucureşti here at Stadionul Ştefan cel Mare in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (14 from 15 games). 21 goals have been conceded.

W D W L L

UTA Arad form and stats

7-5-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for UTA Arad in their Liga 1 matches away.

270 minutes! That's how long the Arad goalkeeper Florin Iacob and his defense have shut out their league opponents.

Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Astra.

A quick return to home after this game, as Arad are hosting Hermannstadt in the Liga 1 only three days away.

The visiting Arad have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 17 goals from 15 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. 16 goals have been conceded by Arad in these games.

Head 2 Head

UTA Arad - Dinamo Bucureşti 0-1 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Last seven meetings between the teams: Bucureşti won five, UTA Arad won one and one draw. three games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

UTA AradA. Hora
A. Hora
5 goals
BucureştiD. Sorescu
D. Sorescu
4 goals
UTA AradE. da Silva
E. da Silva
4 goals

Dinamo Bucureşti missing players

UTA Arad missing players

Dinamo Bucureşti UTA Arad
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
31 15 4 Played P 5 15 31
7 3 0 Won W 3 7 10
7 4 2 Drew D 2 5 10
17 8 2 Lost L 0 3 11
26 14 3 Scored S 7 17 27
41 21 5 Conceded C 4 16 36
94% 93% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 84%
61% 67% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 80% 73% 58%
32% 40% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 40% 40% 35%
19% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 7% 13%
10% 13% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 7% 10%
39% 47% 75% BTTS BTTS 80% 47% 39%
19% 13% 0% Clean Sheets C S 20% 33% 39%
48% 47% 25% Failed to Score F T 0% 27% 39%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
3 2.9 2.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.6 2.4 2.8
8 3 0 Red cards R C 0 2 6
 
10.1 11.3 11.5 Shots (avg) S ( 11.2 7.5 8.6
3.6 4.4 4.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.8 3.5 3.1
23% 21% 18% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 32% 28%
Key stats in Liga 1 this season:
  • Dinamo Bucureşti have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Dinamo Bucureşti is in the worst form (0-1-5)
  • UTA Arad 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 FCSB 30 20 5 5 57 22 15 12 2 1 35 7 15 8 3 4 22 15 35 65
2 CFR Cluj 30 19 7 4 42 15 15 8 5 2 22 7 15 11 2 2 20 8 27 64
3 Universitatea Craiova 30 16 10 4 33 14 15 8 4 3 15 8 15 8 6 1 18 6 19 58
4 Sepsi 30 10 15 5 43 31 15 4 8 3 21 15 15 6 7 2 22 16 12 45
5 Academica Clinceni 30 10 14 6 30 26 15 6 5 4 13 12 15 4 9 2 17 14 4 44
6 Botoşani 30 11 9 10 39 36 15 6 4 5 19 14 15 5 5 5 20 22 3 42
7 Arges 30 10 10 10 33 41 15 5 6 4 18 17 15 5 4 6 15 24 -8 40
8 Chindia Targoviste 30 10 9 11 24 26 15 5 4 6 15 18 15 5 5 5 9 8 -2 39
9 Astra 30 9 11 10 38 39 15 4 6 5 18 18 15 5 5 5 20 21 -1 38
10 UTA Arad 30 9 10 11 26 36 15 2 5 8 9 20 15 7 5 3 17 16 -10 37
11 Gaz Metan Medias 30 9 6 15 33 41 15 5 3 7 15 19 15 4 3 8 18 22 -8 33
12 Voluntari 30 8 8 14 32 40 15 4 4 7 17 20 15 4 4 7 15 20 -8 32
13 Viitorul 30 6 13 11 36 37 15 3 7 5 21 24 15 3 6 6 15 13 -1 31
14 Dinamo Bucureşti 30 7 6 17 26 41 15 3 4 8 14 21 15 4 2 9 12 20 -15 27
15 Hermannstadt 30 5 11 14 28 40 15 4 5 6 17 19 15 1 6 8 11 21 -12 26
16 CSM Iasi 30 7 4 19 29 64 15 4 2 9 14 27 15 3 2 10 15 37 -35 25

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.