National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Sepsi or Voluntari that keep their silverware dream alive.
Sepsi have less rest than Voluntari in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Liga 1 game only three days ago. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at U Craiova 1948.
Sepsi form and stats
Last season their Romania Cup adventure ended in the 16th finals.Sepsi are returning here after visiting U Craiova 1948 and winning with a 5-0 scoreline. Damașcan, Dragomir, Golofca, Luckassen and Fülöp scored the goal(s). As indicated by the result mentioned above, Sepsi played a great game against U Craiova 1948 and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Botosani are coming to town in four days.
Voluntari form and stats
Voluntari was sent out of Romania Cup in the 16th finals last season.Voluntari's last game was the home draw against FCSB (2-2). The draw against FCSB came from a losing position. The Voluntari manager Ciobotariu brought on Costin as a substitute and the player scored to make the scores level.
hometeam won As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 8 similar matches played by Voluntari in our archives, and the results are: 4 wins for Voluntari, 2 draws and 2 defeats.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Liga 1 trip to Arges.
Voluntari played five friendlies in their break from official games, resulting in 2 victories, 1 draw and 2 defeats. In these five matches Voluntari scored 11 and conceded 6 goals.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's one Sepsi victory, four draws and five Voluntari wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Ştefănescu 8 goals |  A. Tudorie 7 goals |   V. Raţă 7 goals |
Sepsi missing players
Voluntari missing players
| Sepsi | Voluntari | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 16 | 10 | Won | W | 1 | 8 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 4 | 7 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 7 | 10 | ||
| 42 | 25 | Scored | S | 4 | 24 | ||
| 18 | 8 | Conceded | C | 18 | 28 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 84% | ||
| 64% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 42% | 52% | ||
| 44% | 58% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 40% | ||
| 28% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 28% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 4% | ||
| 44% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 25% | 36% | ||
| 40% | 42% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 32% | ||
| 24% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 48% | ||
| 6.4 | 6.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.3 | 3.7 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.2 | 5.1 | ||
| 2.1 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.9 | 2.6 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 12.4 | 15 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.3 | 6.8 | ||
| 5.3 | 6.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 3 | ||
| 32% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 15% | 31% | ||
| 8.2 | 6.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14 | 13 | ||
| 3.1 | 2.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.3 | 4.8 | ||
