CSM Iaşi welcomes Sepsi to this second leg of the Romania Cup Semi-finals. It's time to find a winner and both teams know what is needed.
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.
CSM Iaşi form and stats
Iaşi was eliminated in the 8th finals last season in the Romania Cup.This match is a Romania Cup match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 3 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss in this competition.
The Iaşi supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Sepsi in Liga 1 and win 3-1. Preceding that match was the home Liga 1 game against Hermannstadt that was lost 2-3.
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 Iaşi have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found eight matches with the results: Won one, drawn two and lost five.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Iaşi as they are travelling to their away game against Dinamo Bucureşti in the Liga 1. That match is three days after this one.
It's been an intense period of training leading up to this game for Iaşi, who have participated in three training matches. CSM Iaşi have won 1 of these, drawn 2 and were beaten in 0 games.
Sepsi form and stats
Last season their Romania Cup adventure ended in the quarter-finals.The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Romania Cup stats, they have 4 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses both home and away. The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Sepsi have lost on their last two travels.
It might be tough going out on the road again for Sepsi, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 1-3 versus CSM Iaşi. Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Academica Clinceni's place.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eight similar matches played by Sepsi in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Sepsi, five draws and zero defeats.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Chindia Targoviste in just four days.
It's finally time to play a game of importance again as a long period of training has passed. Sepsi have played a number of friendly games in this period, resulting in 1 win, 0 draws and 3 defeats from four fixtures.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Sepsi - Iaşi 5-1 entered in the official records. Iaşi-Sepsi H2H statistics last nine meetings regardless of arena: CSM Iaşi one win, Sepsi five wins, three draws. four of these nine matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  G. Vașvari 7 goals |  G. Karanović 7 goals |  P. Šafranko 7 goals |
CSM Iaşi missing players
Sepsi missing players
| CSM Iaşi | Sepsi | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 5 | 4 | Won | W | 4 | 9 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 16 | 6 | Lost | L | 5 | 10 | ||
| 25 | 18 | Scored | S | 14 | 34 | ||
| 42 | 21 | Conceded | C | 17 | 31 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 64% | 69% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 58% | 60% | ||
| 52% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 44% | ||
| 28% | 38% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 42% | 36% | ||
| 16% | 23% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 12% | ||
| 56% | 69% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 52% | ||
| 16% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 20% | ||
| 32% | 15% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 28% | ||
| 3.9 | 4.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.9 | 6.2 | ||
| 5.6 | 3.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 3.7 | ||
| 3.1 | 3.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.6 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 4 | ||
| 181 | 96 | Total Shots | T S | 99 | 219 | ||
| 72 | 37 | Shots on Target | S O | 33 | 82 | ||
| 32% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 39% | 35% | ||