National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Plopeni or Petrolul 52 that keep their silverware dream alive.
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Liga 2 game only four days ago.
Plopeni form and stats
Action has already taken place for Plopeni in Romania Cup as they have defeated Blejoi Vispesti and Phoenix Posta Calnau to reach the 3rd Round.In their previous game, led his Plopeni to a defeat in the 3. Liga: Series 5 match away at Hermannstadt II. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here.
Before that game, the 4-1 home victory against Blejoi Vispesti.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Plopeni as they are travelling to their away game against Blejoi Vispesti in the 3. Liga: Series 5. That match is three days after this one.
Petrolul 52 form and stats
Last season their Romania Cup adventure ended in the quarter-finals.Petrolul 52 are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Liga 2, having played 2 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 1 loss).
Petrolul won their last game, 4-0 versus Dacia Unirea Braila played at home. As mentioned above, Petrolul was the only team on the pitch versus Dacia Unirea Braila in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task. S. Diarra certainly enjoyed Petrolul 52's last game versus Dacia Unirea Braila, appearing multiple times in the match report with three goals and the 4-0 victory.
Preceding that game was the away Liga 2 victory against Sirineasa with the score of 3-0.It's early days yet, but Petrolul 52 has scored 3 and conceded 1 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  S. Diarra 5 goals | M. Bratu 2 goals |  A. Vajushi 2 goals |
Plopeni missing players
Petrolul 52 missing players
| Plopeni | Petrolul 52 | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 7 | Won | W | 8 | 16 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 11 | 3 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | ||
| 39 | 22 | Scored | S | 20 | 39 | ||
| 34 | 9 | Conceded | C | 6 | 14 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 72% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 58% | 64% | ||
| 52% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 44% | ||
| 36% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 12% | ||
| 28% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | ||
| 44% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 28% | ||
| 36% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 52% | ||
| 28% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 28% | ||
| 2.9 | 2.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.6 | 4.8 | ||
| 6.4 | 4.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.8 | 3.9 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 2.1 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 6.9 | 9.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.5 | 11.8 | ||
| 3.6 | 4.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 4.8 | ||
| 42% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 35% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | CSA Steaua Bucuresti | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 13 |
| 2 | Concordia Chiajna | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 13 |
| 3 | Petrolul 52 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 12 |
| 4 | Corona Brasov | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Universitatea Cluj | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 12 |
| 5 | Unirea Slobozia | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 11 |
| 6 | Hermannstadt | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| 7 | SCM Gloria Buzau | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 7 |
| 8 | ASU Poli Timisoara | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 9 | Metaloglobus | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| 10 | Ripensia Timisoara | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 11 | CSM Iasi | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -1 | 6 |
| 12 | Viitorul Selimbar | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | -4 | 6 |
| 13 | Brasov Steagul Renast | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -5 | 6 |
| 14 | Unirea Dej | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 15 | Dunarea Calarasi | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -6 | 2 |
| 16 | Sirineasa | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -6 | 2 |
| 17 | Dacia Unirea Braila | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 12 | -9 | 2 |
| 18 | Csikszereda | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -7 | 0 |
| 19 | Unirea Constanta | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 17 | -21 | 0 |
| 20 | Astra | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | -2 |