With the anxious opening game out of the way it’s time for the second Liga 1 duel of the season. Universitatea Craiova are eager to welcome Otelul in front of their home fans.
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.
Universitatea Craiova form and stats
The previous season, Universitatea Craiova's league stats were 16 wins, 6 draws and 8 losses, results that produced 4th position in the Liga 1. From these 30 matches they scored {37 goals} and conceded 27. Appearing as the host team in the former season Universitatea Craiova managed 11-2-2 (win-draw-lost) with {24 goals} and 12 conceded.
Universitatea are returning here after visiting Dinamo Bucureşti and winning with a 2-0 scoreline. Ivan and Markovic scored the goal(s).
Ahead of that match, Universitatea Craiova lost 0-1 at home to Sepsi.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Universitatea as they are travelling to their away game against CFR Cluj in the Liga 1. That match is four days after this one.
Otelul form and stats
Let's have a look at how Otelul performed last season in the Liga 2: They landed a 3rd position in the league table after playing out 10 victories, 6 draws and 3 defeats. In total they scored 21 and conceded {12 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 2 - drew 4 and lost 3 with 6/7 goals scored/conceded.
Otelul's last game was the home draw against UTA Arad (1-1).
Before that, Otelul secured a home win against Unirea Dej with the score 1-0.After this away game Otelul return home for a Liga 1 game against FCSB. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Universitatea Craiova victories, one draw and five Otelul wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, seven matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  G. Cârjan 6 goals |  J. Cisotti 5 goals |  O. Ursu 3 goals |
Universitatea Craiova missing players
Otelul missing players
| Universitatea Craiova | Otelul | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 13 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Universitatea Craiova | Last season | Otelul | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 40 | 20 | Played | P | 14 | 29 | ||
| 19 | 12 | Won | W | 3 | 14 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Drew | D | 5 | 7 | ||
| 11 | 4 | Lost | L | 6 | 8 | ||
| 52 | 30 | Scored | S | 8 | 29 | ||
| 41 | 18 | Conceded | C | 14 | 25 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 86% | 90% | ||
| 68% | 70% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 52% | ||
| 38% | 40% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 14% | 28% | ||
| 15% | 15% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 7% | 10% | ||
| 8% | 5% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 7% | ||
| 55% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 29% | 34% | ||
| 25% | 35% | Clean Sheets | C S | 29% | 41% | ||
| 20% | 15% | Failed to Score | F T | 57% | 34% | ||
| 5.9 | 6.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 4.8 | ||
| 3 | 2.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 3 | ||
| 2.1 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2.6 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 12.3 | 15.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.7 | 8.3 | ||
| 4.6 | 5.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.2 | ||
| 28% | 28% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 16% | 31% | ||
| 9.1 | 7.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.3 | 8 | ||
| 3.4 | 3.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.1 | 3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | FCSB | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | CFR Cluj | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | Universitatea Craiova | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Voluntari | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | SSC Farul | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Otelul | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | UTA Arad | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Universitatea Cluj | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Petrolul 52 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Rapid Bucuresti | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Sepsi | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Botosani | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 13 | Hermannstadt | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 14 | U Craiova 1948 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 15 | CSM Iasi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 16 | Dinamo Bucureşti | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| Last season | 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 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 53 |
| 2 | FCSB | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 46 |
| 3 | CFR Cluj | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -3 | 42 |
| 4 | Universitatea Craiova | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 40 |
| 5 | Rapid Bucuresti | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 15 | -3 | 38 |
| 6 | Sepsi | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -4 | 29 |
| Last season | Total | Home | Away | ||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | CSM Iasi | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 20 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 60 |
| 2 | CSA Steaua Bucuresti | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 13 | -2 | 52 |
| 3 | Otelul | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -5 | 49 |
| 4 | Dinamo Bucureşti | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 46 |
| 5 | SCM Gloria Buzau | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -2 | 42 |
| 6 | Unirea Dej | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -7 | 40 |
