📊 Form Guide

Dinamo Bucharest

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Dinamo Bucharest will be hoping for a better result following a 3-1 Liga 1 Play Offs loss in their previous game against Steaua Bucharest.

In that game, Dinamo Bucharest managed 52% possession and 10 shots at goal with 3 on target. FCSB got 8 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Daniel Bîrligea (23') and Octavian Popescu (26', 36') scored for Steaua Bucharest.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent games where Dinamo Bucharest have kept a clean sheet. The facts show that Dinamo Bucharest have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 11 goals during that time. However, we’ll just have to find out if such a trend might continue on in this game.

Rapid Bucharest

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Rapid Bucharest head into the encounter following on from a 1-2 Liga 1 Play Offs win with the downing of Universitatea Craiova in their most recent outing.

In that game, Rapid Bucharest managed 36% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Rapid Bucharest was Tobias Christensen (83'). For their opponents, Universitatea Craiova had 11 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Vasile Mogoș (69') was the scorer for Universitatea Craiova.

The numbers tell their own story, and Rapid Bucharest have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 8 goals overall. In defence, Rapid Bucharest have seen their frailties exposed.

👥 Head to head

An inspection of their past head to head meetings stretching back to 13/03/2022 tells us that these fixtures have been a source of anguish for Dinamo Bucharest. They’ve not managed to get themselves any wins at all whereas Rapid Bucharest have just been stronger than them, beating them in 67% of those games played.

A sum of 14 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 3 of them for Dinamoviștii and 11 created by Giuleștenii. That’s an average goals per game of 2.33.

The last league meeting featuring the two was Liga 1 Play Offs match day 3 on 06/04/2025 which ended up with the score at Rapid Bucharest 1-0 Dinamo Bucharest.

In that game, Rapid Bucharest had 39% possession and 14 shots on goal with 5 on target. Their only player to score was Elvir Koljić (32').

Dinamo Bucharest got 11 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target.

🗞️ Team News: Dinamo Bucharest

We are thinking that Dinamoviștii will possibly employ a 4-3-3 formation for the game and select Alexandru Rosca, Maxime Sivis, Kennedy Boateng, Josue Homawoo, Raul Oprut, Georgi Milanov, Iulius Marginean, Catalin Cirjan, Astrit Selmani, Stipe Perica and Alexandru Pop.

🗞️ Team News: Rapid Bucharest

From our viewpoint, Giuleștenii will likely begin the game with a 4-3-3 formation, settling for Mihai Aioani, Christopher Braun, Denis Ciobotariu, Cristian Ignat, Andrei Borza, Tobias Christensen, Kader Keita, Luka Gojkovic, Alex Dobre, Borisav Burmaz and Claudiu Petrila.

⚡ Prediction

It seems to us that Rapid Bucharest and Dinamo Bucharest could both end up scoring in what appears to be a good match-up, with little separating these two teams.

A close call, and we think a draw is quite likely. We therefore see a hard-fought 1-1 draw at the end of this one.

Victor Martins, 17:01 12/05/2025