📏 Form Guide

Voluntari

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Voluntari will be wanting a better result here following the 3-1 Liga 1 Play Offs defeat last time out to CSM Politehnica Iași.

In that match, Voluntari had 51% possession and 6 attempts at goal with 2 on target. The only player to score for Voluntari was Adam Nemec (50'). For their opponents, Politehnica Iași had 15 attempts on goal with 7 on target. Sergiu Buș (13') and Shayon Harrison (83') scored for CSM Politehnica Iași.

Ilie Poenaru's Voluntari have scored a sum total of 9 times over their preceding six outings. At the other end, the tally of goals that they have conceded in those same fixtures amounts to 6.

FC U Craiova

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In the game prior to this, FC U Craiova drew 1-1 in the Liga 1 Play Offs match with Dinamo Bucharest.

In that game, FC U Craiova managed 50% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. The only player to score for FC U Craiova was Vladislav Blănuță (90'). On the other side, Dinamo Bucureşti had 12 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Georgi Milanov (43') scored for Dinamo Bucharest.

The stats don’t lie, and FC U Craiova have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 12 goals overall. Defensively, FC U Craiova could really do with shoring things up.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their past head to head clashes going back to 16/09/2022 shows us that Voluntari have won 1 of these games and FC U Craiova 3, with the number of draws being 2.

A total of 21 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 9 of them for Alb-Vișinii and 12 being from Studenții. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.5.

The previous league clash featuring these clubs was Liga I match day 20 on 15/12/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Voluntari 0-1 FC U Craiova.

In that game, Voluntari had 52% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 4 on target.

FC U Craiova had 11 shots at goal with 4 on target. Vladislav Blănuță (37') was the scorer.

🗞️ Team News: Voluntari

Looking at personnel, there is just a single fitness concern for the Voluntari manager Ilie Poenaru to be concerned about from of an almost fully healthy group of players. Andreas Niță (Cruciate ligament surgery) won’t play.

It seems likely that Alb-Vișinii could employ a 3-4-3 formation for this game, utilising Octavian Valceanu, Ricardinho, Patricio Matricardi, Igor Armas, Radu Boboc, Vadim Rata, Ljuban Crepulja, Naser Aliji, Ioan Dumiter, Adam Nemec and Robert Popescu.

🗞️ Team News: FC U Craiova

Owing to a fully injury-free squad ready to go, the FC U Craiova manager Giovanni Constantino doesn’t have any fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this match.

We reckon that Studenții appear most likely to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 system, starting the game with Ion-Cristian Gurau, Gabriel Compagnucci, Leo Lacroix, Rokas Lekiatas, Andrea Padula, Constantin Albu, Vlad Pop, Sekou Sidibe, William Baeten, Jibril Ibrahim and Vladislav Blanuta.

✨ Prediction

For this match, we think that FC U Craiova have the capability to put a goal past this Voluntari side, however that may not quite be enough to prevent defeat.

Our tip is for both teams to score in a 2-1 winning margin for Voluntari at full-time. Should be a good one.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 13:05 23/04/2024