📏 Form Guide

UTA Arad

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UTA Arad will be wanting a better result here following the 4-0 Liga 1 Play Offs defeat in their last game at the hands of CSM Politehnica Iași.

In that match, UTA Arad had 73% possession and 25 shots at goal with 8 on target. At the other end, Politehnica Iași got 14 shots on goal with 9 on target. Alin Roman (4'), Sekou Camara (29'), Julián Marchioni (44') and Xhuliano Skuka (81') scored for CSM Politehnica Iași.

Mircea Rednic's UTA Arad have netted a sum total of 5 times in their prior 6 outings. The comparative tally of goals that have been scored against them in that same time is 9.

Botoșani

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Botoșani will go into the meeting following on from a 4-3 Liga 1 Play Offs win against Farul Constanța in their previous fixture.

In that match, Botoșani had 55% possession and 25 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. On the other side, Farul Constanța had 14 shots on goal with 6 on target. Eduard Rădăslăvescu (63') was the scorer for Farul Constanța.

During their six most recent matches, Liviu Ciobotariu's Botoșani have fired home 10 times thus giving them the goals per game average of 1.67.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head meetings stretching back to 14/04/2023, there has been little between the sides with UTA Arad winning 2 of those games, Botoșani 2 and 2 being drawn in regulation time.

A total of 14 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 7 of them from UTA Arad and 7 created by Botoșănenii. That’s an average goals per game of 2.33.

The previous league encounter featuring these clubs was Liga I match day 21 on 23/12/2024 when the final score was UTA Arad 2-0 Botoșani.

That day, UTA Arad had 42% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. The scorers were Kouya Mabea (42') and Agustin Vuletich (77').

Botoșani got 13 shots at goal with 5 on target.

🗞️ Team News: UTA Arad

In all likelihood, UTA Arad may well line up in a 4-1-4-1 system with Dejan Iliev, Cornel Emilian Rapa, Ibrahima Conte, Alexandru Benga, Razvan Trif, Cristian Mihai, Valentin Costache, Marinos Tzionis, Paul-Jose M'Poku, Benjamin van Durmen and Eric Johana Omondi.

📰 Team News: Botoșani

We reckon that Botoșănenii might play in a 4-2-3-1 formation, going with Giannis Anestis, Adams Friday, George Miron, Paul Iacob, Michael Pavlovic, Enriko Papa, Aldair Ferreira, George Cimpanu, Hervin Ongenda, Zoran Mitrov and Marian Chica-Rosa.

💭 Prediction

We think that Botoșani will need to apply a lot of pressure to break down this UTA Arad side who we think will score one, at least.

That’s why we have predicted a good tussle with a 1-0 victory for UTA Arad at the end of this game.

Should be interesting.

Peter Guest, 13:00 05/04/2025