📏 Form Guide

CFR Cluj

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Cluj are hoping to win again following a 2-0 Liga 1 Play Offs success against Universitatea Craiova.

In that match, CFR Cluj managed 36% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 6 on target. For CFR Cluj, the goalscorers were Mohamed Kamara (22') and Meriton Korenica (44'). Universitatea Craiova had 6 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

Their latest results reveal that things are going according to plan in the CFR Cluj rearguard. CFR Cluj have given the opposition little, seeing the total number of goals that have flown into the back of their net during their last six matches standing at 3. Despite that, we’ll just have to find out whether that trend will persist in this next match or not.

Rapid Bucharest

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Rapid Bucharest will go into this meeting following on from a 1-0 Liga 1 Play Offs win in the defeat of Dinamo Bucharest in their last fixture.

In that game, Rapid Bucharest had 39% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 5 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Rapid Bucharest was Elvir Koljić (32'). On the other side, Dinamo Bucureşti got 11 attempts on goal with 5 on target.

During their six most recent matches, Marius Şumudică's Rapid Bucharest have seen their efforts on goal rewarded a total of 8 times - earning them a goals per game average of 1.33.

👥 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 25/09/2023, there has been little between the sides with Cluj winning 2 of those games, Rapid Bucharest 2 and 2 being draws in regulation time.

An aggregate of 21 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 11 for Ceferiștii and 10 coming from Giuleștenii. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.5.

The previous league game featuring these clubs was Liga I match day 17 on 23/11/2024 when it finished CFR Cluj 1-1 Rapid Bucharest.

On that occasion, CFR Cluj managed 49% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Their only player to score was Alin Fică (81').

Rapid Bucharest had 12 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target.

🗞️ Team News: Cluj

It looks as if Ceferiștii may well use a 4-3-3 system for this one featuring Otto Hindrich, Simao Rocha, Leonardo Bolgado, Matei Cristian Ilie, Camora, Alin Razvan Fica, Damjan Djokovic, Lindon Emerllahu, Meriton Korenica, Louis Munteanu and Mohammed Kamara.

🗞️ Team News: Rapid Bucharest

We reckon that Giuleștenii seem most likely to play in a 4-1-4-1 formation, settling for Franz Stolz, Razvan Onea, Denis Ciobotariu, Alexandru Pascanu, Andrei Borza, Kader Keita, Alex Dobre, Tobias Christensen, Peter Ademo, Claudiu Micovschi and Elvir Koljic.

💭 Prediction

We feel that in this game, Rapid Bucharest should get enough chances to find the net against this CFR Cluj side, but that is unlikely to be as many as they will have scored against them.

We’re going for a narrow 2-1 win for CFR Cluj when all is said and done. Definitely a tough call.

Peter Guest, 17:00 14/04/2025