Liga 1 statistics and guide: Sepsi small favourite to subdue U Craiova 1948

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Competition: Romania Liga 1
Competition: Fri 04.March
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)

With their 3 point lead in the league table, Sepsi followers hope to see their beloved team earn full points from this game versus U Craiova 1948.

Insights:
  • Sepsi have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • U Craiova 1948 have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

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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Sepsi form and stats

5 victories, 5 draws and 4 defeats. That’s what Sepsi have to build on here in the Liga 1.

Sepsi enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Dinamo Bucuresti's place. The match ended 3-1 with Aškovski, Ștefănescu and Niňaj scoring.

Ahead of that match, Sepsi lost 0-2 at home to CFR Cluj.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Sepsi handle that role? We have found nine games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are three wins, four draws and two defeats.

Sepsi has scored 17 league goals at home this season, in 14 matches. Sepsi are not conceding a lot of goals here in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 13 from 14 matches.

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U Craiova 1948 form and stats

U Craiova 1948 have only collected 13 points from their away games in the Liga 1, after 3-4-7 (14 played).

Craiova go into this game after a win, the home game against Rapid Bucuresti that ended 3-2.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Gaz Metan Medias at their stadium, the result 3-0.

U Craiova 1948 are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, two draws and one defeat. From a total of four matches.

U Craiova 1948 find the net regularly in their away games. 16 goals from 14 away fixtures in the league. 17 goals have been conceded by Craiova in these games.

Head 2 Head

U Craiova 1948 - Sepsi 1-1 was the product when this pair of sides formerly met, earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last two matches): Sepsi one win, one draw and U Craiova 1948 zero victories. As for goals, zero matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less. The games between these teams have had a tendency to be ill-tempered, having seen 3 red cards from the last two encounters.

Top Goalscorers

U Craiova 1948C. Balan
C. Balan
8 goals
U Craiova 1948A. Compagno
A. Compagno
7 goals
SepsiM. Ştefănescu
M. Ştefănescu
5 goals

Sepsi missing players

U Craiova 1948 missing players

Sepsi U Craiova 1948
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
29 14 5 Played P 4 14 29
8 5 3 Won W 0 3 8
12 5 1 Drew D 1 4 9
9 4 1 Lost L 3 7 12
31 17 9 Scored S 2 16 30
28 13 3 Conceded C 5 17 33
86% 79% 80% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 86% 86%
72% 71% 80% Over 1.5 O 1.5 25% 64% 66%
24% 36% 40% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 50% 34%
17% 21% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 21% 17%
3% 7% 20% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 14% 14%
48% 43% 40% BTTS BTTS 25% 43% 41%
31% 43% 60% Clean Sheets C S 25% 29% 31%
34% 36% 20% Failed to Score F T 75% 43% 41%
 
5.8 5.9 5.8 Corners for (avg) C F 2.8 3.4 3.9
3.6 2.9 2.6 Corners against (avg) C A 5.8 5.1 5
2.1 1.7 1.6 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.2 2.6 2.3
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 2
 
11.5 13.6 13.8 Shots (avg) S ( 10.8 9.2 9.7
4.3 5 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.1 3.2
25% 24% 36% Goal Efficiency G E 17% 36% 33%
 
7 5.7 4.2 Shots against (avg) S A 13.2 10.8 9.7
3.4 2.9 1.6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.2 4.8 3.9
Key stats in Liga 1 this season:
  • Sepsi have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Sepsi have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • U Craiova 1948 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 CFR Cluj 28 22 4 2 43 15 14 12 2 0 22 6 14 10 2 2 21 9 28 70
2 FCSB 28 17 8 3 53 27 14 10 3 1 37 18 14 7 5 2 16 9 26 59
3 Universitatea Craiova 28 14 6 8 51 29 14 9 3 2 29 9 14 5 3 6 22 20 22 48
4 Voluntari 28 13 8 7 31 25 14 9 3 2 21 10 14 4 5 5 10 15 6 47
5 Botosani 28 11 13 4 32 24 14 6 6 2 16 10 14 5 7 2 16 14 8 46
6 SSC Farul 28 13 6 9 40 20 14 9 1 4 22 8 14 4 5 5 18 12 20 45
7 Arges 28 12 6 10 25 21 14 6 3 5 12 11 14 6 3 5 13 10 4 42
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 28 6 11 11 18 31 14 4 6 4 10 11 14 2 5 7 8 20 -13 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 Gaz Metan Medias 28 6 6 16 21 40 14 2 6 6 11 17 14 4 0 10 10 23 -19 14
16 Academica Clinceni 28 2 5 21 19 63 14 1 3 10 10 30 14 1 2 11 9 33 -44 11

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.