Rapid Bucharest vs Steaua Bucharest Live Stream, Predictions (Apr 27)

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Rapid Bucharest

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Rapid Bucharest will be hoping for a better result following the 0-2 Liga 1 Play Offs defeat last time out to Universitatea Cluj.

In that match, Rapid Bucharest had 48% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Universitatea Cluj got 9 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Issouf Macalou (77') was the scorer for Universitatea Cluj.

It’s been seldom in recent games where Rapid Bucharest have shown defensive steel. The facts show that Rapid Bucharest have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 9 goals on the way.

Steaua Bucharest

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Steaua Bucharest will come into the game following a 3-2 Liga 1 Play Offs win to defeat CFR Cluj in their last fixture.

In that game, Steaua Bucharest managed 45% possession and 6 shots at goal with 4 on target. For Steaua Bucharest, the goals were scored by Juri Cisotti (41', 63') and Vlad Chiricheș (56'). For their opponents, CFR Cluj got 17 shots at goal with 7 on target. Louis Munteanu (67', 90') scored for CFR Cluj.

Elias Charalambous's Steaua Bucharest have found the back of the net a total of 9 times throughout their previous six matches. The overall goals that have been scored against them during those same clashes comes to 10.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A glance at their past head-to-head clashes dating back to 09/03/2024 tells us that Rapid Bucharest have won 2 of these and Steaua Bucharest 0, with the tally of draws being 4.

16 goals were produced between them in these games, with 11 for Giuleștenii and 5 being from Steliștii. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.67.

The previous league match between these clubs was Liga 1 Play Offs match day 1 on 16/03/2025 when it finished Steaua Bucharest 3-3 Rapid Bucharest.

That day, Steaua Bucharest managed 59% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 5 on target. The goalscorers were Daniel Bîrligea (29'), Juri Cisotti (55') and Florin Tănase (90').

For their opponents, Rapid Bucharest got 10 shots at goal with 4 on target. Denis Ciobotariu (40', 83') was the scorer.

💡 Prediction

We’re envisaging that Rapid Bucharest will really need to work well to score goals against this Steaua Bucharest team who we reckon should get the win and a maybe even keep a clean sheet as well.

Our tip is therefore for a good tussle with a 0-1 winning score for Steaua Bucharest at full-time.

Should be an interesting one.

Andre Moura, 19:04 23/04/2025