National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's SCM Zalău or Gloria Bistrita that keep their silverware dream alive.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
SCM Zalău form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Romania Cup for Zalău, as the manager Lupuţ led his troops to eliminate Victoria Carei, and reach the 2nd Round. Last season their Romania Cup adventure ended in the 1st round.SCM Zalău are returning here after visiting Victoria Carei in a Romania Cup fixture and winning with a 1-0 scoreline.
A strong away win before that one, visiting CFR Cluj II and winning 2-1.SCM Zalău have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and one practice match played. These training games have ended with 0 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; SCM Zalău scored {0 goals} and let in {1 goals} during these one game.
Gloria Bistrita form and stats
They also participated in Romania Cup last season. This ended in the play-offs.Bistrita are travelling again after losing away to Corvinul Hunedoara in their previous match (1-2).
Preceding that, the 1-2 home loss versus Corvinul Hunedoara.Just as the home team, Gloria Bistrita have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 0 Gloria Bistrita wins, 0 draws and 2 losses.
Head 2 Head
SCM Zalău-Gloria Bistrita H2H statistics last five meetings regardless of arena: SCM Zalău three wins, Gloria Bistrita two wins, zero draws. four of these five matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).
SCM Zalău missing players
Gloria Bistrita missing players
| SCM Zalău | Gloria Bistrita | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 10 | Won | W | 3 | 14 | ||
| 4 | 0 | Drew | D | 4 | 4 | ||
| 7 | 1 | Lost | L | 5 | 7 | ||
| 39 | 29 | Scored | S | 13 | 38 | ||
| 21 | 4 | Conceded | C | 15 | 28 | ||
| 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 68% | 91% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 72% | ||
| 44% | 55% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 56% | ||
| 24% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 28% | ||
| 12% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | ||
| 32% | 27% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 52% | ||
| 48% | 64% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 40% | ||
| 32% | 9% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 12% | ||
| 1 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0.3 | 1.8 | ||
| 0.5 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0.1 | 0.8 | ||
| 0.2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.2 | 0.6 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0.9 | 2.5 | ||
| 0.4 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0.4 | 1.2 | ||
| 371% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 275% | 118% | ||
| 0.9 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0.7 | 1.8 | ||
| 0.3 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0.4 | 0.6 | ||
