📊 Form Guide

Botoșani

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Botoșani will be hoping to return to winning ways here after the 3-0 Liga 1 Play Offs loss in their previous game against Universitatea Cluj.

In that game, Botoșani had 57% possession and 12 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Universitatea Cluj got 12 shots on goal with 4 on target. Dan Nistor (15') and Ante Roguljić (76', 97') scored for Universitatea Cluj.

It’s been seldom in recent games that Botoșani have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The reality is that Botoșani have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 11 goals along the way.

CSM Politehnica Iași

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Following on from being defeated in their last game at the hands of Oţelul Galaţi in Liga 1 Play Offs action, CSM Politehnica Iași and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that match, CSM Politehnica Iași had 63% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target. On the other side, Oţelul Galaţi got 12 shots on goal with 8 of them on target.

The numbers tell their own story, and CSM Politehnica Iași have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 6 goals overall. In defence, CSM Politehnica Iași certainly have room for improvement. With no two games being the same, we will just have to wait and see if that trend shall be sustained here in this game or not.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their past head to head results going back to 21/10/2019 shows that these encounters have been disappointments for CSM Politehnica Iași. They’ve not been able to get themselves any wins whatsoever while Botoșani have been superior, running out winners in 83% of those matches played.

A sum of 16 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 13 from Botoșănenii and 3 belonging to Alb-Albaştrii . The average goals per game has been 2.67.

The previous league clash between the two was Liga I match day 24 on 02/02/2024 when it ended Botoșani 2-1 CSM Politehnica Iași.

In that match, Botoșani had 46% possession and 10 shots at goal with 3 on target.

For their opponents, CSM Politehnica Iași had 20 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Hamza Saghiri (29') scored.

📰 Team News: Botoșani

The Botoșani boss Andrei Patache has zero fitness concerns at all ahead of this clash thanks to a completely injury-free group to pick from.

In all likelihood, Botoșănenii could use the 5-3-2 formation for this game with Razvan Ducan, Daniel Celea, Victor Dican, George Miron, Romario Benzar, Razvan Cret, Eduard Florescu, Ioan Filip, Aldair Ferreira, Juan Kaprof and Enzo Lopez.

📋 Team News: CSM Politehnica Iași

Owing to a fully injury-free squad to pick from, the CSM Politehnica Iași boss Leontin Grozavu has no fitness worries at all coming into this game.

We’re of the thinking that Alb-Albaştrii might begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 formation, going with Silviu Lung Jr., Todor Todoroski, Florin Ilie, Nicolas Samayoa, Stefan Stefanovici, Mihai Bordeianu, Julian Marchioni, Luca Mihai, Alin Roman, Shayon Harrison and Kevin Kabran.

🔮 Prediction

We feel that CSM Politehnica Iași and Botoșani may well end up cancelling each other out here.

Let’s see how it plays out, but a draw is looking likely to us. Therefore, we predict a very even match with a score draw at the end of the 90.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 13:00 30/03/2024