Struggling Pandurii Târgu Jiu will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Dunărea Călăraşi in the upcoming league round. It’s 21st vs 5th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
Pandurii Târgu Jiu and Dunărea Călăraşi should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Dunărea Călăraşi have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 0-0-1 (win-draw-loss) from one match.
Pandurii Târgu Jiu form and stats
There have been more unhappy faces than points at this arena so far this season, with Pandurii Târgu Jiu yet to win or draw a Liga 2 game here. The sad story at Stadionul Municipal Tudor Vladimirescu is: Pandurii Târgu Jiu played 4 games, lost 4 games. The season ticket holders are starting to dread their visits here at Stadionul Municipal Tudor Vladimirescu, with the home team losing four in a row. They have not avoided a defeat here since the Sporting Turnu game.
Pandurii Târgu Jiu's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-1 versus SSC Farul (placed 6th). Preceding that match was the home game against Ripensia Timişoara that was lost 1-2.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Pandurii as they are travelling to their away game against Csikszereda in the Liga 2. That match is four days after this one.
Pandurii have scored 2 goals here in 4 league matches, a depressing statistic. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as Pandurii Târgu Jiu have allowed the opposition to score 10 goals here at Stadionul Municipal Tudor Vladimirescu.
Dunărea Călăraşi form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Liga 2 travels is 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat. Two points from the last two away games for Călăraşi, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.
Călăraşi won their last game, 1-0 versus Metaloglobus played at home. A 1-1 draw at ASU Poli Timişoara's stadium before that.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Călăraşi have scored 6 goals in 5 league games away. As opposed to that, Călăraşi have seen the ball go into their own net 5 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last three meetings: zero - zero - three (Pandurii wins - draws - Dunărea Călăraşi wins). As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), zero had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  G. Rusu 9 goals |  B. Şandru 4 goals |
Pandurii Târgu Jiu missing players
Dunărea Călăraşi missing players
| Pandurii Târgu Jiu | Dunărea Călăraşi | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 4 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 22 | 10 | 6 | Conceded | C | 0 | 5 | 9 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 89% | 75% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 60% | 67% |
| 78% | 75% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 40% | 44% |
| 22% | 25% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 22% |
| 11% | 25% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 11% |
| 44% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 60% | 44% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 40% | 44% |
| 56% | 50% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 11% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.2 | 1.8 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 3.5 | 2.6 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 60 | 36 | 17 | Total Shots | T S | 10 | 30 | 72 |
| 30 | 18 | 9 | Shots on Target | S O | 4 | 10 | 24 |
| 17% | 11% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 50% | 50% |
- Dunărea Călăraşi have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Dunărea Călăraşi have scored more than double the goals of Pandurii Târgu Jiu.
- Dunărea Călăraşi haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Pandurii Târgu Jiu has the fewest points (0) at home in Liga 2
- Pandurii Târgu Jiu has the fewest scored goals in the second half (0) in Liga 2
- Pandurii Târgu Jiu has the most conceded goals (22) in Liga 2
- Pandurii Târgu Jiu has the the worst goal difference (-17) in Liga 2
- Pandurii Târgu Jiu have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Pandurii Târgu Jiu have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Pandurii Târgu Jiu have lost all their home matches so far.
- Pandurii Târgu Jiu haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | U Craiova 1948 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 13 | 21 |
| 2 | Metaloglobus | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 19 |
| 3 | ASU Poli Timişoara | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 19 |
| 4 | Universitatea Cluj | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 17 |
| 5 | Dunărea Călăraşi | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 17 |
| 6 | SSC Farul | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 17 |
| 7 | Sporting Turnu | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 15 |
| 8 | Petrolul 52 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 14 |
| 9 | Mioveni | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 14 |
| 10 | Unirea Slobozia | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | -1 | 14 |
| 11 | Rapid Bucuresti | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | -1 | 13 |
| 12 | SCM Gloria Buzau | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 12 |
| 13 | Ripensia Timişoara | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 19 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 14 | -8 | 12 |
| 14 | Csikszereda | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| 15 | Sirineasa | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | -1 | 10 |
| 16 | Concordia Chiajna | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 9 |
| 17 | Comuna Recea | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -6 | 8 |
| 18 | Şcolar Reşiţa | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -9 | 8 |
| 19 | CSM Slatina | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -6 | 7 |
| 20 | Aerostar Bacau | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | -7 | 4 |
| 21 | Pandurii Târgu Jiu | 9 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 12 | -17 | 3 |