National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Chindia Târgovişte or Argeş that keep their silverware dream alive.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Chindia Târgovişte form and stats
Chindia Târgovişte participated in Romania Cup the last season, where they reached the quarter-finals.Chindia Târgovişte have collected 8 points from their Liga 1 home games so far after 2-2-3.
It's back home for Târgovişte, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Hermannstadt away with the result 1-0. Celea found the net in that victory.
Preceding that game was the home draw versus Botosani that ended 2-2.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Chindia Târgovişte have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 9 matches with the results: Won 1, drawn 4 and lost 4.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Târgovişte as they have a new game in only three days, a Liga 1 match thankfully also at home. SSC Farul are visiting.
Chindia Târgovişte are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 9 goals in 7 games. Târgovişte have conceded 11 from these games.
Argeş form and stats
Last season their Romania Cup adventure ended in the semi-finals against Voluntari.There's been little loot from Argeş's travels as they have only collected 7 points from 8 away games in the Liga 1. Argeş only have 2 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 1 draw.
Argeş failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Sepsi that ended with defeat 0-5. Argeş lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-5 beating and focus on this one.
Prior to that result Argeş won their away game at UTA Arad in the Liga 1. The scoreline was 1-0.So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Argeş playing away and similar expectations, we found 10 relevant matches. Results were 5 Argeş wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Argeş as they have only managed to score 5 times from 8 away games in the league. As for defending, Argeş rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 14 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Târgovişte victories, four draws and four Argeş wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  D. Popadiuc 7 goals |   A. Garita 5 goals |
Chindia Târgovişte missing players
Argeş missing players
| Chindia Târgovişte | Argeş | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 10 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Won | W | 2 | 6 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 5 | ||
| 9 | 3 | Lost | L | 7 | 14 | ||
| 32 | 13 | Scored | S | 7 | 17 | ||
| 28 | 11 | Conceded | C | 21 | 42 | ||
| 92% | 90% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 83% | 88% | ||
| 64% | 70% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 58% | 56% | ||
| 48% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 44% | ||
| 20% | 20% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 32% | ||
| 16% | 10% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 12% | ||
| 52% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 25% | 24% | ||
| 36% | 40% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 28% | ||
| 20% | 20% | Failed to Score | F T | 58% | 60% | ||
| 4.4 | 6.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 3.8 | ||
| 4.3 | 2.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 4.3 | ||
| 1.9 | 2.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.2 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 12 | 14.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5.6 | 8 | ||
| 4.8 | 5.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.2 | 2.8 | ||
| 28% | 27% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 21% | 20% | ||
| 9.2 | 7.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13 | 11 | ||
| 3.7 | 2.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.1 | 5.4 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | SSC Farul | 17 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 32 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 19 | 40 |
| 2 | Rapid Bucuresti | 17 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 32 |
| 3 | CFR Cluj | 15 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 26 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 31 |
| 4 | Universitatea Craiova | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 30 |
| 5 | Hermannstadt | 16 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 26 |
| 6 | Petrolul 52 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 17 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 9 | -1 | 26 |
| 7 | FCSB | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 23 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 23 |
| 8 | Sepsi | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 26 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 22 |
| 9 | Voluntari | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -4 | 20 |
| 10 | Argeş | 17 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 25 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 14 | -12 | 20 |
| 11 | Chindia Târgovişte | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 20 | 21 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 10 | -1 | 19 |
| 12 | Botosani | 16 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 21 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 | -7 | 19 |
| 13 | Universitatea Cluj | 17 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 11 | -6 | 17 |
| 14 | U Craiova 1948 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 17 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 13 | -4 | 16 |
| 15 | UTA Arad | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 23 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 14 | -8 | 16 |
| 16 | Mioveni | 17 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 26 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 16 | -16 | 8 |
