The guesting UTA Arad team should be odds-on at Sepsi, as the away side enjoy a 8 point supremacy from their eight league games this season.
- Sepsi have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- UTA Arad have scored in all their away matches so far.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting UTA Arad have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 18-12-12 (win-draw-loss) from 42 matches.
Sepsi form and stats
Sepsi have played 4 Liga 1 games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 1-1-2 (wins-draws-losses). With three draws from their last three games overall it has been a case of neither great nor terrible for Sepsi.
Sepsi shared the glory with Universitatea Craiova in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1.
The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Botosani.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Sepsi have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found eight games) they have won four times, drawn two and lost two.
The manager L. Grozavu will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to SSC Farul in only three days.
Sepsi are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 4 goals in 4 games. Sepsi have conceded 5 in these home matches.
UTA Arad form and stats
It's gone fairly well in the Liga 1 away games so far for UTA Arad with six points collected from three matches.
Arad played 2-2 against Rapid Bucuresti in their previous match. Arad's last match (vs Rapid Bucuresti) ended in drama as all points looked lost at the score 0-2. They did not give up, fought back and in the end a courageous finish rescued a draw after 90 minutes thanks to a 86th minute equalizer by Liviu Antal.
That result followed a home victory 2-0 versus Voluntari.Arad are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is zero wins, two draws and three defeats. From a total of five matches.
The schedule is very tough for UTA Arad now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Romania Cup game at Filiasi is waiting in only four days.
Arad have scored 3 goals on their travels this season, from 3 away games in the league. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (2 so far).
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last two meetings: one - zero - one (Sepsi wins - draws - UTA Arad wins). As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  D. Miculescu 2 goals |  L. Antal 2 goals |  A. Hora 2 goals |
Sepsi missing players
UTA Arad missing players
| Sepsi | UTA Arad | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 9 | 5 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 88% |
| 88% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 33% | 50% |
| 12% | 25% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 25% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 62% | 50% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 38% |
| 12% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 67% | 62% |
| 25% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 6.4 | 8.5 | 9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 3.3 | 4.9 |
| 3.4 | 2.5 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 4.7 | 3.5 |
| 2.5 | 1 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 3.3 | 2.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10.9 | 11.8 | 18 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 8.3 | 11.2 |
| 3.5 | 3.8 | 8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 3 | 4.2 |
| 25% | 27% | 12% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 33% | 26% |
- All of Sepsi's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- 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.
- Sepsi have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Sepsi haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- UTA Arad have scored in all their away matches so far.
- UTA Arad have won significantly less corners away then 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 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 21 |
| 2 | Rapid Bucuresti | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 17 |
| 3 | Botosani | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 17 |
| 4 | SSC Farul | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 15 |
| 5 | UTA Arad | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 15 |
| 6 | Universitatea Craiova | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 13 |
| 7 | FCSB | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| 8 | Voluntari | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -3 | 12 |
| 9 | Argeş | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| 10 | Mioveni | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | -2 | 10 |
| 11 | Chindia Târgovişte | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | -1 | 9 |
| 12 | U Craiova 1948 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 8 | -2 | 8 |
| 13 | Sepsi | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -2 | 7 |
| 14 | Dinamo Bucuresti | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 11 | -11 | 6 |
| 15 | Gaz Metan Medias | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | -6 | 4 |
| 16 | Academica Clinceni | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 13 | -12 | 2 |