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

📊 Form Guide

Rapid Bucharest

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Rapid Bucharest won’t want a repeat of their last result here after a 0-2 Liga 1 Play Offs loss in their previous game against Universitatea Cluj.

In that game, Rapid Bucharest had 48% possession and 16 shots at goal with 5 on target. For their opponents, Universitatea Cluj got 9 attempts on goal with 3 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 meeting after a 3-2 Liga 1 Play Offs win over CFR Cluj in their last game.

In that game, Steaua Bucharest had 45% possession and 6 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. For Steaua Bucharest, the goalscorers were Juri Cisotti (41', 63') and Vlad Chiricheș (56'). CFR Cluj got 17 shots on goal with 7 of them 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

Checking on their past head to head clashes going back to 09/03/2024 tells us that Rapid Bucharest have won 2 of these and Steaua Bucharest 0, with the number of drawn matches standing at 4.

An aggregate of 16 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 11 for Giuleștenii and 5 being from Steliștii. That’s an average goals per game of 2.67.

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

In that match, Steaua Bucharest managed 59% possession and 17 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. The goalscorers were Daniel Bîrligea (29'), Juri Cisotti (55') and Florin Tănase (90').

Rapid Bucharest had 10 attempts on goal with 4 of them 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, 15:04 23/04/2025