Perhaps a welcome break from league football as FC Bacău & Otelul face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Romania Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
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.
FC Bacău form and stats
Action has already taken place for FC Bacău in Romania Cup as they have defeated CSM Bacau, Aerostar Bacau and Rapid Brodoc to reach the Play-offs.Bacău's last game was hosting Somuz Falticeni and winning 3-1.
Ahead of that result, a home win hosting Rapid Brodoc in the Romania Cup.
There will be little rest for FC Bacău after this match as they are travelling to Stiinta Miroslava for a 3. Liga: Series 1 game in only four days.
Otelul form and stats
Otelul was sent out of Romania Cup in the group stage last season.Things could have gone better for Otelul in their Liga 1 away matches, but 3 points from 3 games is all right.
Otelul delivered a 2-2 draw playing at home against Voluntari in their previous fixture. It looked so good for Otelul vs Voluntari, but the job was not completed and victory was lost as a 2-0 lead was turned into a 2-2 draw.
Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Botosani.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Otelul manager Munteanu as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Petrolul 52.
Goals are few and far between in Otelul's away league games. Only {1 goals} from 3 travels. Otelul are tighter than a frog's bottom, as only {1 away goals} have been conceded so far.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  A. Pop 4 goals |  J. Cisotti 1 goals |
FC Bacău missing players
Otelul missing players
| FC Bacău | Otelul | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 4 | 4 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 4 | 4 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 7 | 13 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 3 | 7 | ||
| 17 | 17 | Scored | S | 5 | 20 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Conceded | C | 10 | 28 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 73% | 84% | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 55% | 64% | ||
| 75% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 9% | 24% | ||
| 50% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 16% | ||
| 25% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 4% | ||
| 50% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 44% | ||
| 50% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 32% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 55% | 40% | ||
| 5.2 | 5.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.1 | 3 | ||
| 1.2 | 1.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.6 | 3.2 | ||
| 1.2 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.8 | 2.3 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.3 | 8 | ||
| 2.2 | 2.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 2.8 | ||
| 189% | 189% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 13% | 29% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.3 | 8.7 | ||
| 0.8 | 0.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | FCSB | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 15 |
| 2 | Universitatea Craiova | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 14 |
| 3 | CFR Cluj | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 13 |
| 4 | Petrolul 52 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| 5 | Rapid Bucuresti | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | Voluntari | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | -2 | 10 |
| 7 | Sepsi | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 |
| 8 | SSC Farul | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 9 |
| 9 | Hermannstadt | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 10 | Dinamo Bucureşti | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | -4 | 8 |
| 11 | Universitatea Cluj | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 7 | -3 | 7 |
| 12 | UTA Arad | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -4 | 7 |
| 13 | Otelul | 7 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 6 |
| 14 | U Craiova 1948 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -4 | 6 |
| 15 | Botosani | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -5 | 3 |
| 16 | CSM Iasi | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | -7 | 3 |
