It's advantage U Craiova 1948 so far with their 1st position in the Liga 2 table, welcoming SCM Gloria Buzau who are placed 11th.
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.
U Craiova 1948 form and stats
4 victories, 1 draw and 0 defeats. That’s what U Craiova 1948, who have the most scored goals (22) in Liga 2, have to build on here at Stadionul Municipal in the Liga 2. U Craiova 1948 haven’t lost a league-game in 30 attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus CS U Craiova II, 562 days ago. The U Craiova 1948 fans aren't used to losing league-games here at Stadionul Municipal and will expect new points from this game. Craiova has played 15 games in a row here without a defeat.
Craiova haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 258 minutes ago. W. Baeten scored that one. Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Robert Popa not having conceded a league goal in 381 minutes.
An away draw last time out for Craiova, facing ASU Poli Timisoara in a game that ended 0-0. Before that, U Craiova 1948 drew at home versus Aerostar Bacau.
The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Craiova matches with similar probabilities have ended with one win, zero draws and zero defeats (from one game).
Goals are plentiful at Stadionul Municipal in the league this season as Craiova has scored 13 goals here in 5 home games. From these home matches, Craiova have conceded only 3 goals.
SCM Gloria Buzau form and stats
The visitors are W2-D2-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Liga 2. Momentum is building for SCM Gloria Buzau in their away games, having won their two previous outings.
C. Tucaliuc scored in Gloria's previous match, the home game against Şirineaşa that ended 2-1. Prior to that result SCM Gloria Buzau won their away game at CSM Slatina. The scoreline was 2-0.
As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and SCM Gloria Buzau playing away, we found one game. Results were zero away wins, one draw and zero home wins.
A new game in only three days for Gloria, the Liga 2 home match versus Comuna Recea. Busy days.
SCM Gloria Buzau are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 7 away goals from 5 games (in the league). It's not easy to score on SCM Gloria Buzau as they have only conceded 4 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  V. Munteanu 9 goals |  D. Huiban 6 goals |
U Craiova 1948 missing players
SCM Gloria Buzau missing players
| U Craiova 1948 | SCM Gloria Buzau | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 6 | 4 | 2 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 22 | 13 | 9 | Scored | S | 2 | 7 | 12 |
| 9 | 3 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 4 | 9 |
| 80% | 80% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 80% | 90% |
| 70% | 80% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 80% | 70% |
| 60% | 80% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 40% | 40% |
| 40% | 40% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 10% |
| 40% | 40% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 60% | 60% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 40% | 50% |
| 40% | 40% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 60% | 30% |
| 20% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 20% | 30% |
| 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 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.8 | 2.6 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 103 | 49 | 22 | Total Shots | T S | 22 | 55 | 109 |
| 43 | 21 | 14 | Shots on Target | S O | 8 | 23 | 37 |
| 51% | 62% | 64% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 30% | 32% |
- U Craiova 1948 has the most points (13) at home in Liga 2
- U Craiova 1948 has the most scored goals (13) at home in Liga 2
- U Craiova 1948 has the most scored goals (22) in Liga 2
- U Craiova 1948 has the most scored goals in the first half (13) in Liga 2
- U Craiova 1948 has the the best goal difference (+10) at home in Liga 2
- U Craiova 1948 has the the best goal difference (+13) in Liga 2
- U Craiova 1948 have not yet lost a game.
- U Craiova 1948 have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- U Craiova 1948 have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
| 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 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 13 | 22 |
| 2 | Dunarea Calarasi | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 20 |
| 3 | ASU Poli Timisoara | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 20 |
| 4 | Metaloglobus | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 19 |
| 5 | Petrolul 52 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 10 | 17 |
| 6 | Universitatea Cluj | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 17 |
| 7 | Mioveni | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 17 |
| 8 | SSC Farul | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 17 |
| 9 | Sporting Turnu | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 16 |
| 10 | Şirineaşa | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 16 |
| 11 | SCM Gloria Buzau | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 15 |
| 12 | Ripensia Timisoara | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 14 | -7 | 15 |
| 13 | Unirea Slobozia | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | -1 | 14 |
| 14 | Rapid Bucuresti | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -3 | 13 |
| 15 | Csikszereda | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 12 |
| 16 | Concordia Chiajna | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 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 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -10 | 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 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | -10 | 4 |
| 21 | Pandurii Târgu Jiu | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 25 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 13 | -18 | 4 |