Universitatea Craiova vs Rapid Bucharest Live Stream, Predictions (May 02)

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Universitatea Craiova

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Universitatea Craiova will be hoping to return to winning ways here after the 2-1 Liga 1 Play Offs losing effort in their last game against Universitatea Cluj.

In that game, Universitatea Craiova managed 47% possession and 6 shots at goal with 2 on target. For Universitatea Craiova, the goals were scored by Alexandru Mitriță (20') and Gjoko Zajkov (76' Own goal). For their opponents, Universitatea Cluj got 12 shots at goal with 2 on target. Mamadou Thiam (59') scored for Universitatea Cluj.

In their last six games, Constantin Gâlcă's Universitatea Craiova have found the net 8 times - an average number of goals scored per match equal to 1.33.

Rapid Bucharest

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After being beaten in their last game against Steaua Bucharest in Liga 1 Play Offs action, Rapid Bucharest will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, Rapid Bucharest had 57% possession and 19 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Rapid Bucharest was Tobias Christensen (48'). FCSB had 13 attempts on goal with 7 on target. Juri Cisotti (6') and Daniel Bîrligea (42') scored for Steaua Bucharest.

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 overall. Defensively, Rapid Bucharest certainly have room for improvement. That pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward into this next game, however.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their past head-to-head clashes going back to 04/03/2024 shows that Universitatea Craiova have won 3 of these games & Rapid Bucharest 1, with the number of draws standing at 2.

In all, 14 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 8 for Studenţii and 6 netted by Giuleștenii. That’s an average goals per game of 2.33.

The previous league game featuring the two was Liga 1 Play Offs match day 2 on 29/03/2025 when the final score was Rapid Bucharest 1-2 Universitatea Craiova.

On that occasion, Rapid Bucharest had 47% possession and 14 shots on goal with 5 on target.

Universitatea Craiova got 13 shots on goal with 8 of them on target. Anzor Mekvabishvili (18'), Gjoko Zajkov (55' Own goal) and Alexandru Mitriță (90') scored.

ℹ️ Team News: Universitatea Craiova

Luis Paradela (Cruciate ligament surgery) and Alexandru Cicâldău (unknown injury) won’t be able to feature for Universitatea Craiova gaffer Constantin Gâlcă.

⚡ Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Rapid Bucharest should be able to breach the defence of this Universitatea Craiova team, however that probably won’t quite be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We can see a close game with a 2-1 win for Universitatea Craiova at the end of the match. It really should be an interesting one.

Lucas Pereira, 11:00 28/04/2025