National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Şcolar Reşiţa or Mioveni that keep their silverware dream alive.
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.
Şcolar Reşiţa form and stats
Şcolar Reşiţa have not come this way in the Romania Cup without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Vointa Lupac, Mioveni and ASU Poli Timisoara. Last season, Şcolar Reşiţa's Romania Cup journey ended in the 4th round.The Şcolar followers got no joy from their last match, a Romania Cup duel also played here at Stadionul Mircea Chivu: A 0-1 defeat against Mioveni.
In the game before, an away victory in the 3. Liga: Series 8 match versus Ineu with a 1-0 scoreline.Mioveni form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Şcolar Reşiţa in order to reach play-offs of Romania Cup. They also participated in Romania Cup last season. This ended in the round of 32.There's been little loot from Mioveni's travels as they have only collected 4 points from 6 away games in the Liga 1. Mioveni only have 1 win to counter their 4 defeats and 1 draw.
Two trips in a row for Mioveni, whose manager Stoican could celebrate last time after the Romania Cup win against Şcolar Reşiţa.
It was a Liga 1 defeat before that one as the away game against Rapid Bucuresti wasn't a success with a 1-2 loss.The attacking power of Mioveni when travelling is not overwhelming with 4 goals scored from 6 league matches away. As for defending, Mioveni rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 10 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last three meetings: zero - one - two (Şcolar Reşiţa wins - draws - Mioveni wins). As for goals, zero matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  E. Scarlatache 2 goals |  I. Balaur 1 goals | B. Krasniqi 1 goals |
Şcolar Reşiţa missing players
Mioveni missing players
| Şcolar Reşiţa | Mioveni | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 16 | 25 | ||
| 21 | 13 | Won | W | 4 | 7 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 5 | 7 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 7 | 11 | ||
| 81 | 45 | Scored | S | 13 | 21 | ||
| 11 | 6 | Conceded | C | 19 | 29 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 81% | 88% | ||
| 84% | 86% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 56% | ||
| 68% | 64% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 38% | 28% | ||
| 52% | 57% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 19% | 16% | ||
| 32% | 36% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 6% | 8% | ||
| 36% | 36% | BTTS | BTTS | 38% | 36% | ||
| 60% | 57% | Clean Sheets | C S | 38% | 32% | ||
| 8% | 7% | Failed to Score | F T | 44% | 44% | ||
| 6.5 | 5.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.4 | 3.6 | ||
| 3.2 | 2.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.9 | 5.3 | ||
| 0.8 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.7 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 14.4 | 11.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.9 | 9 | ||
| 7.2 | 5.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.1 | 3 | ||
| 53% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 26% | 28% | ||
| 7.1 | 6.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10 | 9.1 | ||
| 3.1 | 3.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 4 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | SSC Farul | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 24 |
| 2 | Rapid Bucuresti | 11 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 24 |
| 3 | Hermannstadt | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 22 |
| 4 | CFR Cluj | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 18 |
| 5 | Universitatea Craiova | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 17 |
| 6 | Petrolul 52 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | -1 | 17 |
| 7 | Sepsi | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 16 |
| 8 | UTA Arad | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -2 | 15 |
| 9 | U Craiova 1948 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 14 |
| 10 | Arges | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | -6 | 13 |
| 11 | Voluntari | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -3 | 12 |
| 12 | Botosani | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -7 | 12 |
| 13 | Universitatea Cluj | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -4 | 10 |
| 14 | FCSB | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -4 | 8 |
| 15 | Mioveni | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | -10 | 6 |
| 16 | Chindia Targoviste | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -8 | 3 |
