Steaua Bucharest vs Rapid Bucharest Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Steaua Bucharest

WLWWWW 📈

Steaua Bucharest will be looking for another win after a 0-1 Liga 1 Play Offs triumph over CFR Cluj.

In that match, Steaua Bucharest had 47% possession and 15 shots on goal with 5 on target. The only player to score for Steaua Bucharest was Florinel Coman (16'). CFR Cluj got 22 shots on goal with 5 on target.

An interesting feature of recent Steaua Bucharest games is seeing a zero in the scoreline.

Taking their previous six clashes before this one, in as many as 5 of them a wager on "Both Teams to Score" would have lost. Even so, we’ll just have to find out whether that pattern shall be sustained in this next match.

Rapid Bucharest

DWLLLL 📉

After being beaten in their last game against Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe in Liga 1 Play Offs competition, Rapid Bucharest and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, Rapid Bucharest managed 41% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 4 on target. For their opponents, Sepsi OSK got 10 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Gabriel Debeljuh (90') was the scorer for Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe.

The numbers tell their own story, and Rapid Bucharest have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 10 goals in all. At the back, Rapid Bucharest certainly have room for improvement.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their past head to head clashes going back to 24/07/2022 shows us that Steaua Bucharest have won 1 of these games and Rapid Bucharest 5, with the number of draws being 0.

A total of 20 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 5 for Steliștii and 15 being from Giuleștenii. The average goals per game has been 3.33.

The last league encounter featuring the two was Liga I match day 30 on 09/03/2024 when the final score was Rapid Bucharest 4-0 Steaua Bucharest.

In that game, Rapid Bucharest had 38% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. The goals were scored by Albion Rrahmani (54', 82') and Ermal Krasniqi (74').

Steaua Bucharest had 9 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target.

🗞️ Team News: Steaua Bucharest

The Steaua Bucharest boss Ilias Charalambous has zero fitness concerns at all coming into this clash with a fully healthy squad ready to go.

We think that Steliștii look set to employ a 4-3-3 system this time, utilising Stefan Tarnovanu, Valentin Cretu, Siyabonga Ngezana, Vlad Chiriches, Risto Radunovic, Mihai Lixandru, Adrian Sut, Darius Olaru, Octavian Popescu, David Miculescu and Florinel Coman.

📰 Team News: Rapid Bucharest

Due to a mostly full-strength group of players, there is only the sole fitness worry for the Rapid Bucharest gaffer Cristiano Bergodi to contend with. Mattias Käit (surgery) won’t be playing here.

It’s our belief that Giuleștenii could decide to make use of a 4-3-3 system, starting Mihai Aioani, Razvan Onea, Cristian Sapunaru, Paul Iacob, Andrei Borza, Jakub Hromada, Razvan Oaida, Florent Hasani, Ermal Krasniqi, Albion Rrahmani and Claudiu Petrila.

💭 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Rapid Bucharest could find themselves up against it to register a score against this Steaua Bucharest lineup who we reckon should win and very possibly keep a clean sheet.

We’re therefore expecting a narrow 1-0 win for Steaua Bucharest when the referee blows for full-time.

Let’s see how it plays out.

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Victor Martins, 06:01 20/04/2024