FCSB favourites for feisty fight facing Voluntari

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Competition: Romania Liga 1
Competition: Sun 06.March
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: Arena Naţională (55600 seats)

Fasten your seatbelt before the show! The starring heroes are FCSB and Voluntari, a win is the objective and 1 1/2 hours the duration.

Insights:
  • FCSB have the most points from losing position (16) in Liga 1
  • FCSB have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Voluntari have scored away.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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FCSB form and stats

FCSB, who have the most scored goals (37) at home in Liga 1, are steadily winning Liga 1 games and points here at Arena Naţională. 10 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat is the summary from 14 games.

FCSB are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 263 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by Edjouma).

FCSB are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-1 away versus Arges.

Ahead of that match, FCSB lost 0-2 at home to SSC Farul.

Goals are plentiful at Arena Naţională in the league this season as FCSB has scored 37 goals here in 14 home games. FCSB have conceded 18 in these home matches.

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Voluntari form and stats

4 wins, 5 draws and 5 losses. That’s the product of Voluntari playing as the away team in the Liga 1 this season.

Voluntari are looking to quickly end their 181 minutes long goal drought in the Liga 1.

Home advantage was not enough for Voluntari in their previous game as they lost hosting CFR Cluj, 0-1.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Arges that ended 0-0.

The attacking power of Voluntari when travelling is not overwhelming with 10 goals scored from 14 league matches away. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. As opposed to that, Voluntari have seen the ball go into their own net 15 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Voluntari - FCSB 0-0 was the story when this pair of squads previously played each other, also in this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): FCSB four wins, three draws and Voluntari three victories. As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

FCSBF. Tănase
F. Tănase
11 goals
VoluntariV. Raţă
V. Raţă
7 goals
FCSBO. Popescu
O. Popescu
6 goals

FCSB missing players

Voluntari missing players

FCSB Voluntari
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
29 14 3 Played P 3 14 29
17 10 1 Won W 0 4 13
8 3 1 Drew D 0 5 8
4 1 1 Lost L 3 5 8
53 37 7 Scored S 0 10 31
28 18 6 Conceded C 7 15 26
90% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 71% 79%
69% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 57% 59%
55% 86% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 36% 41%
34% 57% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 7% 14%
24% 36% 67% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 7% 3%
52% 79% 67% BTTS BTTS 0% 29% 38%
38% 14% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 43% 38%
21% 7% 33% Failed to Score F T 100% 57% 45%
 
5 4.8 2.7 Corners for (avg) C F 4.7 3.8 3.8
3.1 2.9 4.7 Corners against (avg) C A 7.7 5.6 5
2.2 1.9 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.5 2.4
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
11.7 12.9 12.7 Shots (avg) S ( 4.7 7.7 8.4
5 6.1 4.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1 2.7 3.6
37% 43% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 26% 30%
 
8.7 8.4 11 Shots against (avg) S A 16.7 13.8 12.8
3.5 3.4 5.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.7 5.1 4.3
Key stats in Liga 1 this season:
  • All of FCSB's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • FCSB have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • FCSB have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • FCSB have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Voluntari have scored away.
  • FCSB have the most points from losing position (16) in Liga 1
  • FCSB have the most scored goals (37) at home in Liga 1
  • FCSB have the most scored goals in the second half (33) in Liga 1
  • FCSB haven’t played a single 0-0 game at 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 CFR Cluj 29 23 4 2 44 15 14 12 2 0 22 6 15 11 2 2 22 9 29 73
2 FCSB 29 17 8 4 53 28 14 10 3 1 37 18 15 7 5 3 16 10 25 59
3 Universitatea Craiova 29 15 6 8 54 29 14 9 3 2 29 9 15 6 3 6 25 20 25 51
4 SSC Farul 29 14 6 9 42 20 15 10 1 4 24 8 14 4 5 5 18 12 22 48
5 Voluntari 29 13 8 8 31 26 15 9 3 3 21 11 14 4 5 5 10 15 5 47
6 Botosani 29 11 13 5 32 26 14 6 6 2 16 10 15 5 7 3 16 16 6 46
7 Arges 29 13 6 10 26 21 15 7 3 5 13 11 14 6 3 5 13 10 5 45
8 UTA Arad 29 8 13 8 22 19 14 5 5 4 10 8 15 3 8 4 12 11 3 37
9 Rapid Bucuresti 29 8 13 8 33 31 14 4 7 3 13 10 15 4 6 5 20 21 2 37
10 Sepsi 29 8 12 9 31 28 14 5 5 4 17 13 15 3 7 5 14 15 3 36
11 U Craiova 1948 29 8 9 12 30 33 15 5 5 5 14 16 14 3 4 7 16 17 -3 33
12 Chindia Targoviste 29 7 11 11 19 23 15 3 7 5 11 14 14 4 4 6 8 9 -4 32
13 Mioveni 29 6 11 12 18 34 15 4 6 5 10 14 14 2 5 7 8 20 -16 29
14 Dinamo Bucuresti 29 4 5 20 23 62 15 4 3 8 17 28 14 0 2 12 6 34 -39 17
15 Academica Clinceni 29 3 5 21 21 63 15 2 3 10 12 30 14 1 2 11 9 33 -42 14
16 Gaz Metan Medias 29 6 6 17 21 42 14 2 6 6 11 17 15 4 0 11 10 25 -21 10

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.