National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Filiaşi or Universitatea Craiova that keep their silverware dream alive.
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Liga 1 game only four days ago.
Filiaşi form and stats
Last season their Romania Cup adventure ended in the 4th round.On the other hand, in the Romania Cup, Filiaşi has performed like this (both home and away): 3 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses.
The Filiaşi fans got no joy from their last match, a 3. Liga; Series 6 game also here at Stadionul CFR, Craiova: A 0-6 defeat against CSM Slatina. Filiaşi were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.
In the preceding match a 2-0 victory visiting Horezu.No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Filiaşi had similar winning odds as today, and found one game. In these, the hosts won one, drew zero and lost zero. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Filiaşi lost zero similar games by at least two goals.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Filiaşi as they are travelling to their away game against Minerul Costesti in the 3. Liga; Series 6. That match is three days after this one.
Universitatea Craiova form and stats
Nothing but glory last season for Universitatea, as they won the Romania Cup.Playing away, Universitatea Craiova have won 3 games, drawn 0 and suffered 5 defeats in the Liga 1 this season. It's a growing despair in Universitatea as they have recorded three consecutive losses.
Universitatea Craiova failed to get anything from their last game, a Liga 1 home match vs FCSB that ended with defeat 2-3. Late heartbreak for Universitatea Craiova in the FCSB match, as the deciding 2-3 goal came deep into overtime.
Preceding that game, the 2-3 loss visiting Argeş's place.As mentioned earlier, Universitatea will not be satisfied unless they get a comfortable victory in this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in one win (one by two or more goals winning margin), zero draws and zero surprising defeats.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Liga 1 trip to Botosani.
The visiting Universitatea have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 8 goals from 8 games. Universitatea have conceded 11 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  A. Ivan 9 goals |  J. Markovic 6 goals |  D. Nistor 3 goals |
Filiaşi missing players
Universitatea Craiova missing players
| Filiaşi | Universitatea Craiova | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 9 | Won | W | 4 | 13 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | ||
| 8 | 2 | Lost | L | 6 | 8 | ||
| 44 | 32 | Scored | S | 12 | 41 | ||
| 34 | 17 | Conceded | C | 12 | 21 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 88% | ||
| 84% | 86% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 45% | 56% | ||
| 68% | 71% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 36% | 44% | ||
| 36% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 27% | 28% | ||
| 16% | 21% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 18% | 24% | ||
| 44% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 27% | 32% | ||
| 32% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 52% | ||
| 28% | 14% | Failed to Score | F T | 45% | 28% | ||
| 4.6 | 5.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.8 | 5.3 | ||
| 3.2 | 3.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.6 | 2.8 | ||
| 3.5 | 3.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.4 | 2.3 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 11.4 | 12.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.2 | 13.7 | ||
| 4.8 | 6.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 5.3 | ||
| 33% | 34% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 32% | ||
| 8.1 | 7.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.5 | 6.4 | ||
| 3 | 2.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 2.8 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | CFR Cluj | 16 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 17 | 42 |
| 2 | FCSB | 17 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 32 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 17 | 37 |
| 3 | Voluntari | 17 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 29 |
| 4 | Universitatea Craiova | 17 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 32 | 19 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 28 |
| 5 | Rapid Bucuresti | 17 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 22 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 28 |
| 6 | Botosani | 17 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 28 |
| 7 | Argeş | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 27 |
| 8 | SSC Farul | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 19 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 26 |
| 9 | UTA Arad | 17 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 25 |
| 10 | Chindia Targoviste | 17 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 19 |
| 11 | Sepsi | 17 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 18 |
| 12 | Mioveni | 17 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 23 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 18 | -12 | 17 |
| 13 | Gaz Metan Medias | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 20 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 11 | -7 | 16 |
| 14 | U Craiova 1948 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 10 | -6 | 15 |
| 15 | Dinamo Bucuresti | 17 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 38 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 24 | -25 | 9 |
| 16 | Academica Clinceni | 16 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 37 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 22 | -25 | 4 |