📊 Form Guide

Romania

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Romania will be wanting a better result here following a 2-1 WC Qualifiers - Europe loss in their previous game against Austria.

In that game, Romania had 40% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 3 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Romania was Florin Tănase (95'). Austria got 14 attempts on goal with 9 on target. Michael Gregoritsch (42') and Marcel Sabitzer (60') scored for Austria.

It has not been often in recent games where Romania have kept a clean sheet. In fact, Romania have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 6 goals on the way. We will just have to find out if that trend can be continued on in this game.

Cyprus

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In their last game, Cyprus drew 2-2 in the International Friendlies match with Bulgaria.

The only name on the scoresheet from Cyprus was Konstantinos Laifis (86'). Aleksandar Kolev (27', 61') was the scorer for Bulgaria.

The numbers tell their own story, and Cyprus have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 12 goals in all. Defensively, Cyprus have some weaknesses to address.

👥 Head to head

The previous league match featuring these sides was Nations League match day 6 on 18/11/2024 and the score finished Romania 4-1 Cyprus.

On that day, Romania managed 66% possession and 19 shots on goal with 9 on target. The goalscorers were Daniel Bîrligea (2'), Răzvan Marin (41', 80') and Florinel Coman (83').

Cyprus had 8 shots on goal with 4 on target. Ioannis Pittas (52') was the scorer.

The referee was Luca Pairetto.

📋 Team News: Romania

We think that Tricolorii could make use of the 4-4-2 system this time, utilising Horatiu Moldovan, Andrei Ratiu, Mihai Popescu, Andrei Burca, Deian Sorescu, Dennis Man, Vlad Chiriches, Adrian Sut, Valentin Mihaila, Denis Dragus and Florin Tanase.

ℹ️ Team News: Cyprus

It’s our belief that Cyprus could decide to utilise a 4-4-2 formation, choosing Joel Mall, Giannis Satsias, Christos Shelis, Konstantinos Laifis, Giorgios Malekkides, Ioannis Kosti, Grigoris Kastanos, Charalampos Kyriakou, Anderson Correia, Loizos Loizou and Andronikos Kakoullis.

💭 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Romania look set to create enough chances to score more than one when they come up against Cyprus, who may well find it hard scoring.

Our tip is for a fairly comfortable 2-0 victory for Romania at the end of this one.

Renata Leite, 18:00 10/06/2025