Rapid Bucuresti will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 5 points behind Sporting Turnu.
Sporting Turnu could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Liga 2 game only four sleeps ago.
Rapid Bucuresti form and stats
Overall Liga 2 stats at home this season for Rapid Bucuresti are 6-4-2 (wins-draw-losses). The Bucuresti manager D. Alexa might feel some added pressure to get something from this game after two straight home defeats.
It's back home for Bucuresti, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating UTA Arad away with the result 2-1. F. Mallo (2) found the net in that victory. Preceding that match was a defeat to Argeş (1-2).
This is expected to be a close game, with Rapid Bucuresti perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Rapid Bucuresti as a small favourite), we find one game. Rapid Bucuresti has won zero of these, drawn one and lost zero.
The Bucuresti fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 16 in 12 matches. Bucuresti are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stadionul Valentin Stănescu in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 12 matches.
Sporting Turnu form and stats
5 wins, 2 draws and 5 losses. That’s the product of Sporting Turnu playing as the away team in the Liga 2 this season. Turnu love their trips these days, as their two previous away games have resulted in victories.
Turnu have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 181 minutes ago. F. Haită was the goal scorer.
Turnu failed to get anything from their last game, a Liga 2 home match vs Mioveni that ended with defeat 0-1. A 0-0 draw was the result before that, hosting Petrolul 52.
So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Turnu playing away and similar expectations, we found two relevant matches. Results were one Sporting Turnu win, zero draws and one defeat.
The travelling fans enjoy Turnu's attacking play in away games, having scored 18 goals in 12 league matches away. 16 goals have been conceded by Turnu in these games.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Bucuresti - Sporting Turnu 0-0 entered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last three matches): Bucuresti zero wins, one draw and Sporting Turnu two victories. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  S. Pană 9 goals |   C. Hlistei 7 goals | C. Ciobanu 7 goals |
Rapid Bucuresti missing players
Sporting Turnu missing players
| Rapid Bucuresti | Sporting Turnu | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 27 | 13 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 13 | 27 |
| 11 | 6 | 2 | Won | W | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 9 | 4 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 35 | 17 | 4 | Scored | S | 3 | 22 | 43 |
| 23 | 9 | 2 | Conceded | C | 3 | 19 | 29 |
| 70% | 77% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | 89% |
| 56% | 54% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 62% | 70% |
| 44% | 38% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 54% | 41% |
| 30% | 23% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 38% | 26% |
| 11% | 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 38% | 22% |
| 44% | 38% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 46% | 48% |
| 48% | 54% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 38% | 41% |
| 37% | 31% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 23% | 22% |
| 5.1 | 5.8 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 4.4 | 4.7 |
| 3.8 | 2.8 | 2.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.5 | 3.6 | 3.4 |
| 2.7 | 2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 3 | 2.7 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 336 | 192 | 39 | Total Shots | T S | 24 | 150 | 327 |
| 133 | 71 | 8 | Shots on Target | S O | 11 | 64 | 117 |
| 26% | 24% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 34% | 37% |
- Rapid Bucuresti have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Sporting Turnu have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | UTA Arad | 24 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 55 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 24 | 12 | 42 | 53 |
| 2 | Sporting Turnu | 23 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 39 | 25 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 21 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 16 | 14 | 42 |
| 3 | Argeş | 24 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 36 | 25 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 41 |
| 4 | Petrolul 52 | 24 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 26 | 20 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 41 |
| 5 | Metaloglobus | 24 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 31 | 22 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 18 | 9 | 40 |
| 6 | Mioveni | 23 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 36 | 22 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 21 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 14 | 39 |
| 7 | Rapid Bucuresti | 23 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 32 | 20 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 13 | 12 | 37 |
| 8 | Dunarea Calarasi | 25 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 35 | 32 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 22 | 15 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 17 | 3 | 37 |
| 9 | SCM Gloria Buzau | 24 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 37 | 27 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 15 | 10 | 36 |
| 10 | Sirineasa | 23 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 32 | 25 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 36 |
| 11 | SSC Farul | 23 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 27 | 20 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 7 | 33 |
| 12 | ASU Poli Timisoara | 23 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 20 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 32 |
| 13 | Ripensia Timisoara | 24 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 35 | 36 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 17 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 14 | 19 | -1 | 31 |
| 14 | Universitatea Cluj | 23 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 29 | 26 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 3 | 27 |
| 15 | Concordia Chiajna | 23 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 21 | 30 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 18 | -9 | 27 |
| 16 | Csikszereda | 24 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 33 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 18 | -15 | 25 |
| 17 | Scolar Resita | 23 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 30 | 36 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 20 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 16 | -6 | 24 |
| 18 | Sportul Snagov | 24 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 62 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 29 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 33 | -46 | 9 |
| 19 | Pandurii Targu Jiu | 23 | 1 | 5 | 17 | 10 | 53 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 19 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 34 | -43 | 8 |
| 20 | Juventus Bucuresti | 13 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 8 | 33 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 21 | -25 | 6 |