All the points stay with the home side, the away team steals the points or a point each? Anything could happen when the mid-table sides Universitatea Cluj and U Craiova 1948 clash at Stadionul Municipal Gaz Metan.
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 Universitatea Cluj and U Craiova 1948.
Universitatea Cluj form and stats
Universitatea Cluj have collected 24 points from their Liga 1 home games so far after 6-6-3. It’s been three wins in a row for Universitatea here at Stadionul Municipal Gaz Metan, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.
Universitatea Cluj are returning here after visiting Hermannstadt in a Romania Cup match and winning with a 2-1 scoreline.
Prior to that, an away loss at UTA Arad in the Liga 1.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Universitatea Cluj have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 9 matches with the results: Won 5, drawn 3 and lost 1.
It should be noted that a peek at the 10 latest league games reveals that 8 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the sides scored a goal).
Universitatea Cluj has scored 16 league goals at home this season, in 15 matches. From these home matches, Universitatea have conceded only 11 goals. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.
U Craiova 1948 form and stats
U Craiova 1948 have only collected 14 points from their away games in the Liga 1, after 3-5-7 (15 played).
Two away matches in a row for U Craiova 1948, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 vs UTA Arad in the Romania Cup.
Preceding that, the 0-1 home loss versus Petrolul 52.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 8 similar matches played by U Craiova 1948 in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Craiova, 1 draw and 5 defeats.
An interesting fact for sports bettors looking to bet on only one (or no) side scoring in this match: This club have played 5 consecutive league matches with just one or no side finding the net.
The visitors have scored 14 goals from 15 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. As opposed to that, U Craiova 1948 have seen the ball go into their own net 20 times on the road. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.
Head 2 Head
U Craiova 1948 - Universitatea 5-0 was the result in these contenders' last H2H fixture, earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last four matches): Universitatea Cluj two wins, one draw and U Craiova 1948 one victory. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  M. Thiam 7 goals | A. Bălan 4 goals |   A. Chițu 4 goals |
Universitatea Cluj missing players
U Craiova 1948 missing players
| Universitatea Cluj | U Craiova 1948 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 32 | 16 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 14 | 31 |
| 9 | 7 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 12 |
| 10 | 6 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| 13 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 6 | 12 |
| 27 | 18 | 2 | Scored | S | 1 | 14 | 37 |
| 39 | 11 | 3 | Conceded | C | 2 | 16 | 30 |
| 91% | 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 93% | 97% |
| 66% | 62% | 33% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 71% | 65% |
| 31% | 25% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 36% | 39% |
| 16% | 6% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 14% | 13% |
| 3% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 3% |
| 41% | 44% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 57% | 48% |
| 31% | 44% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 21% | 29% |
| 38% | 25% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 29% | 26% |
| 4.3 | 4.9 | 6.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 8 | 4.7 | 5.6 |
| 4.2 | 3.1 | 1.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
| 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.3 | 2 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 11.2 | 13.2 | 14.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.5 | 9.2 | 10.9 |
| 4.2 | 5.2 | 4.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.8 | 4.4 |
| 20% | 21% | 15% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 14% | 26% | 27% |
| 9.6 | 8.5 | 5.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 5.5 | 10.7 | 10.5 |
| 3.8 | 3.2 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 4.9 | 3.9 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | SSC Farul | 30 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 54 | 28 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 32 | 9 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 22 | 19 | 26 | 64 |
| 2 | CFR Cluj | 30 | 20 | 3 | 7 | 54 | 28 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 29 | 12 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 16 | 26 | 63 |
| 3 | FCSB | 30 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 51 | 35 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 30 | 18 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 21 | 17 | 16 | 57 |
| 4 | Universitatea Craiova | 30 | 16 | 6 | 8 | 37 | 27 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 10 | 54 |
| 5 | Rapid Bucuresti | 30 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 40 | 26 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 27 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 52 |
| 6 | Sepsi | 30 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 47 | 30 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 27 | 13 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 17 | 17 | 42 |
| 7 | U Craiova 1948 | 30 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 34 | 33 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 13 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 20 | 1 | 40 |
| 8 | Petrolul 52 | 30 | 11 | 3 | 16 | 28 | 44 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 18 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 11 | 26 | -16 | 36 |
| 9 | Voluntari | 30 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 28 | 32 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 21 | -4 | 34 |
| 10 | Universitatea Cluj | 30 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 25 | 37 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 26 | -12 | 34 |
| 11 | Hermannstadt | 30 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 30 | 29 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 1 | 32 |
| 12 | Chindia Targoviste | 30 | 7 | 11 | 12 | 32 | 42 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 17 | 20 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 22 | -10 | 32 |
| 13 | Botosani | 30 | 7 | 11 | 12 | 29 | 44 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 19 | 15 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 29 | -15 | 32 |
| 14 | UTA Arad | 30 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 29 | 41 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 21 | -12 | 27 |
| 15 | Arges | 30 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 21 | 41 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 19 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 22 | -20 | 27 |
| 16 | Mioveni | 30 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 23 | 45 | 15 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 29 | -22 | 22 |
