Botoșani vs Hermannstadt Live Stream, Predictions (May 18)

📏 Form Guide

Botoșani

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Botoșani will be hoping to bounce back here after a 2-0 Liga 1 Play Offs defeat in their last game at the hands of Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe.

In that game, Botoșani had 53% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target. At the other end, Sepsi OSK had 8 shots on goal with 4 on target. Dávid Sigér (71') and Cosmin Matei (81') scored for Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe.

A common feature of more recent Botoșani games is the number of results with a nil in them.

From their prior six matches leading up to this one, in 5 of them a bet on "Both Teams to Score" would have been a loser. That sort of trend might not be carried forward into this match, of course.

Hermannstadt

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Hermannstadt will go into this encounter following a 1-0 Liga 1 Play Offs win with the defeat of CSM Politehnica Iași in their last outing.

In that game, Hermannstadt had 54% possession and 13 shots at goal with 9 on target. The scorer for Hermannstadt was Ianis Stoica (75'). At the other end, Politehnica Iași had 16 shots on goal with 7 on target.

During their 6 previous matches, Hermannstadt have turned their attacks into goals a total of 8 times - earning them the goals per game average of 1.33.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head to head clashes dating back to 01/04/2023 shows that Botoșani have won 0 of these games and Hermannstadt 3, with the tally of drawn games standing at 3.

An aggregate of 16 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 6 from Botoșănenii and 10 coming from Sibienii. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.67.

The last league contest between the two was Liga I match day 20 on 13/12/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Botoșani 1-2 Hermannstadt.

On that occasion, Botoșani had 48% possession and 11 shots at goal with 4 of them on target.

At the other end, Hermannstadt had 10 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Aurelian Chițu (42') scored.

📋 Team News: Botoșani

In all likelihood, Botoșănenii will probably make use of the 4-2-3-1 system in the match, beginning the first half with Giannis Anestis, Adams Friday, Patricio Matricardi, George Miron, Michael Pavlovic, Enriko Papa, Paul Iacob, Jaly Mouaddib, Hervin Ongenda, Zoran Mitrov and Marian Chica-Rosa.

🗞️ Team News: Hermannstadt

It’s our belief that Sibienii seem likely to begin the game with a 5-3-2 formation using Catalin Cabuz, Tiberiu Capusa, Ionut Stoica, Vahid Selimovic, Nana Kwame Antwi, Tiago Goncalves, Robert Popescu, Antoni Ivanov, Alessandro Murgia, Sergiu Bus and Cristian Negut.

💭 Prediction

For this match, we think that Botoșani should create the chances to score more than once when they play Hermannstadt, who won’t find it easy to get a goal of their own.

We’re predicting a 2-0 margin for Botoșani at the end of this one.

Lucas Pereira, 12:01 18/05/2025