Universitatea Cluj vs Universitatea Craiova Live Stream, Predictions (Apr 26)

📏 Form Guide

Universitatea Cluj

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Universitatea Cluj will want to continue from where they left off last time out with the 0-2 Liga 1 Play Offs victory versus Rapid Bucharest.

In that game, Universitatea Cluj managed 52% possession and 9 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Universitatea Cluj was Issouf Macalou (77'). For their opponents, Rapid Bucureşti had 16 shots on goal with 5 of them on target.

Over their past six games, Ioan Sabău's Universitatea Cluj have netted 6 times giving them an average number of goals scored per match of 1.

Universitatea Craiova

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Universitatea Craiova go into this clash following on from a 0-2 Liga 1 Play Offs win over Dinamo Bucharest in their previous game.

In that game, Universitatea Craiova had 55% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 7 on target. The scorer for Universitatea Craiova was Alexandru Mitriță (63'). Dinamo Bucureşti got 12 shots at goal with 2 of them on target.

A tendency of at least one side getting a clean sheet in games featuring Universitatea Craiova has been evident recently. Looking at their last six outings shows that it’s occurred 5 times. In these clashes, opposing sides have hit a goal aggregate of 4 while Universitatea Craiova have scored 7.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 23/09/2023 shows us that Universitatea Cluj have won 0 of them & Universitatea Craiova 2, with the number of draws being 4.

A total of 14 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 5 for șepcile roșii and 9 coming from Studenţii. That’s an average goals per game of 2.33.

The previous league fixture between these clubs was Liga 1 Play Offs match day 1 on 14/03/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Universitatea Craiova 3-0 Universitatea Cluj.

On that occasion, Universitatea Craiova had 46% possession and 16 shots on goal with 9 on target. The goalscorers were Anzor Mekvabishvili (38') and Carlos Mora (61').

On the other side, Universitatea Cluj had 14 attempts at goal with 5 on target.

🗞️ Team News: Universitatea Craiova

Universitatea Craiova manager Constantin Gâlcă has multiple availability issues to deal with. Luis Paradela (Cruciate ligament surgery) and Alexandru Cicâldău (unknown injury) are not able to play.

⚡ Prediction

In our opinion, Universitatea Cluj could find themselves up against it to put one past this Universitatea Craiova team who we think will likely be able to get on the scoresheet themselves in a winning performance.

We therefore fancy a very competitive encounter with a 0-1 winning score for Universitatea Craiova when the referee blows for full-time.

Hopefully it’s a good one.

Peter Guest, 14:00 22/04/2025