Rapid Bucuresti are chasing the top positions while Universitatea Cluj are more nervous about avoiding relegation. Who wins the prize?
- Rapid Bucuresti is in the best form (5-0-1) in Liga 1
- Universitatea Cluj have the most dropped points from leading position (7) in Liga 1
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.
Rapid Bucuresti form and stats
Perfect Liga 1 season at home so far for Rapid Bucuresti 3 wins from 3 appearances. Nine out of nine points from the last three home games for Rapid Bucuresti, and the home supporters are ready to scream their lungs out to keep the winning streak alive.
It's back home for Rapid Bucuresti, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Sepsi away with the result 2-1. Ioniță and Sefer found the net in that victory.
Before that, Bucuresti had a home game versus UTA Arad which ended with a victory 1-0.The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Rapid Bucuresti's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played 6 games, won 2 matches, drawn 1 and lost 3.
The manager Mutu will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Voluntari in only four days.
Rapid Bucuresti have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Stadionul Valentin Stănescu with 5 goals in 3 league matches. Rapid Bucuresti have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 1 goal.
Universitatea Cluj form and stats
The visitors are W0-D2-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Liga 1.
Universitatea have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 234 minutes ago. Balan was the goal scorer.
Universitatea Cluj has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Voluntari for a 0-0 draw.
Preceding that, the 0-1 home loss versus Sepsi.After this away game Universitatea Cluj return home for a Liga 1 game against U Craiova 1948. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Universitatea as they have only managed to score 3 times from 4 away games in the league. Universitatea Cluj have conceded 6 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Rapid Bucuresti victories, two draws and three Universitatea Cluj wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Bălan 3 goals |   I. Morais Junior 1 goals |
Rapid Bucuresti missing players
Universitatea Cluj missing players
| Rapid Bucuresti | Universitatea Cluj | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | 5 | 2 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 6 | 9 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 75% | 86% |
| 43% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 75% | 57% |
| 29% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 29% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 14% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 29% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 75% | 57% |
| 43% | 67% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 14% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 43% |
| 3.6 | 3 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4 | 4.1 |
| 5.3 | 4.7 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 4.5 | 3.4 |
| 2.6 | 2.7 | 4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.5 | 2.4 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8.9 | 9.7 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 11.5 | 11.9 |
| 3.9 | 4.7 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2.5 | 2.7 |
| 30% | 36% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 30% | 21% |
| 11.6 | 9.7 | 13 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 9.2 | 8.9 |
| 3.4 | 2.3 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 2.8 | 2.7 |
- Rapid Bucuresti have won all their matches at home so far.
- Rapid Bucuresti haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Rapid Bucuresti is in the best form (5-0-1) in Liga 1
- Universitatea Cluj have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Universitatea Cluj have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Universitatea Cluj have the fewest scored goals in the second half (0) in Liga 1
- Universitatea Cluj have the most dropped points from leading position (7) in Liga 1
- Universitatea Cluj have yet to win a game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Rapid Bucuresti | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 15 |
| 2 | SSC Farul | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 12 |
| 3 | Botosani | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| 4 | Petrolul 52 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 11 |
| 5 | Sepsi | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
| 6 | UTA Arad | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | -2 | 10 |
| 7 | Hermannstadt | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 8 | CFR Cluj | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| 9 | Arges | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -2 | 9 |
| 10 | Universitatea Craiova | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 11 | Voluntari | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 12 | U Craiova 1948 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| 13 | FCSB | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -1 | 6 |
| 14 | Universitatea Cluj | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -5 | 3 |
| 15 | Chindia Targoviste | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -4 | 2 |
| 16 | Mioveni | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -9 | 2 |
