Luceafărul Oradea vs Argeş match preview: Even contest expected at Baza Sportivă Luceafărul Felix

Competition: Romania Liga 2
Date: Sat 06.April
Match begins: 08:00 (UTC)
Venue: Baza Sportivă Luceafărul Felix (2200 seats)

Luceafărul Oradea will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 16 points behind Argeş.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Luceafărul Oradea form and stats

When playing at home, Luceafărul Oradea have managed 7 wins, 4 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 13 games.

The fans are hoping that Luceafărul Oradea will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-5 away loss in the Liga 2 game against Academica Clinceni. Ahead of that match, Luceafărul Oradea won a home game hosting Aerostar Bacau (4-0).

This is expected to be a close game, with Luceafărul Oradea perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Luceafărul Oradea as a small favourite), we find three games. Luceafărul Oradea has won 3 of these, drawn 0 and lost 0.

There will be little rest for Luceafărul Oradea after this match as they are travelling to Sportul Snagov for a Liga 2 game in only four days.

Luceafărul Oradea have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Baza Sportivă Luceafărul Felix with 23 goals in 13 matches. Luceafărul Oradea are not conceding a lot of goals here at Baza Sportivă Luceafărul Felix, averaging less than one per game. The total is 11 from 13 matches.

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Argeş form and stats

3-5-5 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Argeş in their matches away. Two points from the last two away games for Argeş, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.

Argeş won their last game, 2-1 versus Aerostar Bacau played at home. A 0-0 draw at Universitatea Cluj's stadium before that.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 24 similar matches played by Argeş in our archives, and the results are: 10 wins for Argeş, 6 draws and 8 defeats.

Argeş has another fixture away, a Liga 2 game, against Petrolul 52 in just four days. A tough schedule for the visitors!

The visitors have scored 10 goals from 13 away games, an average of less than one per game. Argeş have conceded 16 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Argeş - Luceafărul Oradea 3-0. Luceafărul Oradea-Argeş H2H statistics last six meetings regardless of arena: Luceafărul Oradea 2 wins, Argeş 3 wins, 1 draw.

Top Goalscorers

V. Buhăescu
12 goals
V. Pop
9 goals
A. Dulca
7 goals

Luceafărul Oradea missing players

Argeş missing players

Luceafărul Oradea Argeş
Total Home Statistic Away Total
27 13 Played 13 27
33 23 Scored 10 38
48 11 Conceded 16 22
89% 85% Over 0.5 85% 85%
78% 62% Over 1.5 54% 63%
59% 54% Over 2.5 31% 41%
41% 38% Over 3.5 23% 22%
19% 15% Over 4.5 8% 11%
44% 46% Both teams to score 46% 41%
30% 46% Clean Sheet 23% 41%
37% 23% Failed To Score 46% 33%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Academica Clinceni 27 20 1 6 55 17 14 11 1 2 34 7 13 9 0 4 21 10 38 61
2 Sportul Snagov 27 18 5 4 43 20 13 9 3 1 19 5 14 9 2 3 24 15 23 59
3 Universitatea Cluj 27 17 6 4 55 18 13 10 3 0 31 7 14 7 3 4 24 11 37 57
4 Chindia Târgovişte 27 17 6 4 53 29 13 9 3 1 33 18 14 8 3 3 20 11 24 57
5 Petrolul 52 27 17 5 5 49 23 14 10 4 0 31 8 13 7 1 5 18 15 26 56
6 Argeş 27 13 8 6 38 22 14 10 3 1 28 6 13 3 5 5 10 16 16 47
7 Mioveni 27 12 6 9 39 29 14 8 3 3 26 17 13 4 3 6 13 12 10 42
8 UTA Arad 27 11 5 11 40 38 14 7 2 5 25 21 13 4 3 6 15 17 2 38
9 Ripensia Timişoara 27 9 8 10 32 36 14 6 4 4 17 15 13 3 4 6 15 21 -4 35
10 Şirineaşa 27 8 9 10 31 31 13 8 2 3 24 12 14 0 7 7 7 19 0 33
11 Metaloglobus 27 9 6 12 25 48 13 6 3 4 13 10 14 3 3 8 12 38 -23 33
12 Pandurii Târgu Jiu 27 9 5 13 44 45 13 7 1 5 27 21 14 2 4 8 17 24 -1 32
13 Luceafărul Oradea 27 8 7 12 33 48 13 7 4 2 23 11 14 1 3 10 10 37 -15 31
14 ASU Poli Timişoara 27 8 6 13 22 27 13 4 3 6 12 13 14 4 3 7 10 14 -5 30
15 Juventus Bucureşti 27 6 11 10 36 40 14 4 6 4 21 17 13 2 5 6 15 23 -4 29
16 SSC Farul 27 9 2 16 35 47 14 8 1 5 24 17 13 1 1 11 11 30 -12 29
17 Aerostar Bacău 27 7 5 15 39 52 13 5 2 6 21 17 14 2 3 9 18 35 -13 26
18 Baloteşti 27 6 4 17 24 51 13 4 3 6 15 20 14 2 1 11 9 31 -27 22
19 ACS Poli Timişoara 27 4 6 17 24 52 14 3 4 7 16 21 13 1 2 10 8 31 -28 18
20 Dacia Unirea Brăila 27 3 7 17 24 68 14 3 4 7 14 24 13 0 3 10 10 44 -44 16
21 Petrolul Ploiesti 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3

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