📏 Form Guide

Rapid Bucharest

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Rapid Bucharest will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 0-2 Liga 1 Play Offs losing effort in their last game against Universitatea Cluj.

In that match, Rapid Bucharest managed 48% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. For their opponents, Universitatea Cluj got 9 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Issouf Macalou (77') scored 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 come into this meeting following a 3-2 Liga 1 Play Offs win in the defeat of CFR Cluj in their previous outing.

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

A review of their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 09/03/2024 tells us that Rapid Bucharest have won 2 of them & Steaua Bucharest 0, with the tally of drawn games being 4.

A combined total of 16 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 11 of them for Giuleștenii and 5 being from Steliștii. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.67.

The previous league meeting between these sides was Liga 1 Play Offs match day 1 on 16/03/2025 and the score finished Steaua Bucharest 3-3 Rapid Bucharest.

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

At the other end, Rapid Bucharest got 10 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Denis Ciobotariu (40', 83') was the scorer.

ℹ️ Team News: Rapid Bucharest

We think that Giuleștenii could kick off with a 4-3-3 system for this game, utilising Franz Stolz, Razvan Onea, Denis Ciobotariu, Alexandru Pascanu, Andrei Borza, Tobias Christensen, Kader Keita, Mattias Kaeit, Alex Dobre, Elvir Koljic and Claudiu Petrila.

📋 Team News: Steaua Bucharest

It’s our belief that Steliștii might utilise a 4-2-3-1 lineup, choosing Stefan Tarnovanu, Valentin Cretu, Siyabonga Ngezana, David Kiki, Risto Radunovic, Adrian Sut, Vlad Chiriches, David Miculescu, Florin Tanase, Juri Cisotti and Andrei Gheorghita.

🔮 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, 17:00 27/04/2025