Football tips: Viitorul vs Argeş - predictions and betting guide

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Competition: Romania Liga 1
Competition: Sun 09.May
Match begins: 13:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadionul Central (4545 seats)

Season ticket holders at Stadionul Central haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Viitorul languishing in the 13th position so far. The guesting Argeş will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.

Insights:
  • Viitorul have the fewest clean sheets (2) at home in Liga 1
  • Argeş have the most points from losing position (16) in Liga 1

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 Viitorul and Argeş.

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Viitorul form and stats

3 victories, 7 draws and 5 defeats. That’s what Viitorul, who have the fewest clean sheets (2) at home in Liga 1, have to build on here at Stadionul Central in the Liga 1.

The home team returns to Stadionul Central after being equal after 90 minutes with Hermannstadt on their last time out; the Liga 1 game ended 0-0. Before that game, the home loss against Dinamo Bucuresti with the scoreline 1-2.

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

Viitorul are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 21 goals in 15 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 24 goals have been conceded.

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Argeş form and stats

Playing away, Argeş have won 5 games, drawn 4 and suffered 6 defeats in the Liga 1 this season.

Impressive finishing from Cristian Dumitru, Cephas Malele and Stephan Drăghici secured the home win 3-0 against Voluntari in their previous game. Before that, Argeş travelled to Gaz Metan Medias and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.

Argeş are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is three wins, one draw and three defeats. From a total of seven matches.

Argeş have scored 15 goals on their travels this season, from 15 away games in the league. Argeş have conceded 24 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The last H2H meeting was Argeş - Viitorul 1-0, played this season. Numbers for the last three meetings between these two teams are: one win for Viitorul, one draw and one win for Argeş. Over 2,5 goals: one time; under 2,5 goals: two games.

Top Goalscorers

ArgeşC. Malele
C. Malele
18 goals
ViitorulA. Ciobanu
A. Ciobanu
9 goals
ArgeşR. Grecu
R. Grecu
4 goals

Viitorul missing players

Argeş missing players

Viitorul Argeş
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
35 17 4 Played P 6 17 36
7 4 1 Won W 2 6 13
14 7 2 Drew D 2 5 12
14 6 1 Lost L 2 6 11
38 23 6 Scored S 6 17 42
41 26 4 Conceded C 9 25 44
89% 94% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 94%
66% 82% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 83% 71% 69%
40% 59% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 41% 42%
17% 29% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 17% 24% 22%
11% 18% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 17% 12% 11%
51% 76% 75% BTTS BTTS 67% 47% 53%
23% 12% 25% Clean Sheets C S 17% 24% 25%
37% 18% 25% Failed to Score F T 17% 29% 28%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.2 2.4 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.8 1.9 1.9
4 1 0 Red cards R C 0 3 3
 
10.5 12.3 14.8 Shots (avg) S ( 9.8 7.7 8.4
4 5.1 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.8 3.1 3.6
27% 27% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 26% 33% 33%
Key stats in Liga 1 this season:
  • Argeş have the most points from losing position (16) in Liga 1
  • Argeş haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Viitorul have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Viitorul have the fewest clean sheets (2) at home in Liga 1

  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 30 20 5 5 57 22 15 12 2 1 35 7 15 8 3 4 22 15 35 65
2 CFR Cluj 30 19 7 4 42 15 15 8 5 2 22 7 15 11 2 2 20 8 27 64
3 Universitatea Craiova 30 16 10 4 33 14 15 8 4 3 15 8 15 8 6 1 18 6 19 58
4 Sepsi 30 10 15 5 43 31 15 4 8 3 21 15 15 6 7 2 22 16 12 45
5 Academica Clinceni 30 10 14 6 30 26 15 6 5 4 13 12 15 4 9 2 17 14 4 44
6 Botoşani 30 11 9 10 39 36 15 6 4 5 19 14 15 5 5 5 20 22 3 42
7 Argeş 30 10 10 10 33 41 15 5 6 4 18 17 15 5 4 6 15 24 -8 40
8 Chindia Targoviste 30 10 9 11 24 26 15 5 4 6 15 18 15 5 5 5 9 8 -2 39
9 Astra 30 9 11 10 38 39 15 4 6 5 18 18 15 5 5 5 20 21 -1 38
10 UTA Arad 30 9 10 11 26 36 15 2 5 8 9 20 15 7 5 3 17 16 -10 37
11 Gaz Metan Medias 30 9 6 15 33 41 15 5 3 7 15 19 15 4 3 8 18 22 -8 33
12 Voluntari 30 8 8 14 32 40 15 4 4 7 17 20 15 4 4 7 15 20 -8 32
13 Viitorul 30 6 13 11 36 37 15 3 7 5 21 24 15 3 6 6 15 13 -1 31
14 Dinamo Bucuresti 30 7 6 17 26 41 15 3 4 8 14 21 15 4 2 9 12 20 -15 27
15 Hermannstadt 30 5 11 14 28 40 15 4 5 6 17 19 15 1 6 8 11 21 -12 26
16 CSM Iasi 30 7 4 19 29 64 15 4 2 9 14 27 15 3 2 10 15 37 -35 25

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.