National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Şirineaşa or Dinamo Bucureşti that keep their silverware dream alive.
Şirineaşa and Dinamo Bucureşti should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Şirineaşa form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Romania Cup for Şirineaşa, as the manager Stânga led his troops to eliminate Horezu, and reach the Play-offs. Şirineaşa participated in Romania Cup the last season, where they reached the 4th round.The story so far in the Liga 2 for Şirineaşa at their home stadium (Stadionul Jiul) is 3 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat.
Nothing to worry about in defence for Şirineaşa, as their goalkeeper has completely shut out the opponents for 307 minutes in the Liga 2.
A nice win for Şirineaşa last time playing, versus Progresul Spartac. That was also a home game and the match ended 1-0 with Dragu scoring for the victors.
Before that, a nice away win at Horezu (after extra-time). A Romania Cup match. This is expected to be a close game, with Şirineaşa perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Şirineaşa as a small favourite), we find 12 games. Şirineaşa has won 4 of these, drawn 4 and lost 4.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Şirineaşa as they are travelling to their away game against Otelul in the Liga 2. That match is three days after this one.
As for guarding their own goal, Şirineaşa have only let in 1 goal at home.
Dinamo Bucureşti form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Tunari in order to reach play-offs of Romania Cup. Last season their Romania Cup adventure ended in the round of 16.2-0-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Dinamo Bucureşti in their Liga 2 matches away.
Bucureşti are travelling again after losing away to SCM Gloria Buzau in their previous match (1-2).
Before that, the Romania Cup win away at Tunari. As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 7 similar matches played by Dinamo Bucureşti in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Dinamo Bucureşti, 1 draw and 4 defeats.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Bucureşti as they have only managed to score 3 times from 4 away games in the league.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  A. Țegle 2 goals | C. Dragu 2 goals | A. Micle 1 goals |
Şirineaşa missing players
Dinamo Bucureşti missing players
| Şirineaşa | Dinamo Bucureşti | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 7 | Won | W | 6 | 8 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 9 | 3 | Lost | L | 6 | 12 | ||
| 40 | 18 | Scored | S | 15 | 33 | ||
| 26 | 10 | Conceded | C | 18 | 40 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 92% | ||
| 68% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 71% | 80% | ||
| 48% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 36% | 52% | ||
| 20% | 17% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 21% | 36% | ||
| 16% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 14% | 20% | ||
| 40% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 56% | ||
| 40% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 43% | 32% | ||
| 24% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 29% | 20% | ||
| 5.1 | 4.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.9 | 4.9 | ||
| 5 | 5.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.9 | 5.1 | ||
| 2.5 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.8 | 2.8 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 6 | 7 | ||
| 10.5 | 10.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.8 | 9.2 | ||
| 3.9 | 3.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.9 | 3.8 | ||
| 36% | 39% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 37% | 34% | ||
| 10.2 | 8.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.1 | 9.7 | ||
| 4 | 3.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.3 | 4.2 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Otelul | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 15 |
| 2 | Unirea Slobozia | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 14 |
| 3 | Viitorul Selimbar | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 14 |
| 4 | CSM Iasi | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 14 |
| 5 | Unirea Dej | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 14 |
| 6 | Csikszereda | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 13 |
| 7 | SCM Gloria Buzau | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 13 |
| 8 | CSA Steaua Bucuresti | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 13 |
| 9 | Şirineaşa | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 12 |
| 10 | CSM Slatina | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 11 |
| 11 | Progresul Spartac | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 |
| 12 | Brașov Steagul Renașt | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -1 | 8 |
| 13 | FCM Baia Mare | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -5 | 8 |
| 14 | Concordia Chiajna | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | -2 | 7 |
| 15 | Dumbravita | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | -5 | 7 |
| 16 | Dinamo Bucureşti | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -5 | 6 |
| 17 | Ripensia Timisoara | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | -5 | 5 |
| 18 | ASU Poli Timisoara | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -6 | 5 |
| 19 | Unirea Constanta | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -8 | 3 |
| 20 | Metaloglobus | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -7 | 1 |
