📊 Form Guide

UTA Arad

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UTA Arad will be looking for another win after the 1-0 Liga 1 Play Offs success against Botoșani.

In that match, UTA Arad had 47% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 3 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for UTA Arad was Ibrahima Conté (37'). Botoșani had 11 attempts at goal with 4 on target.

In their preceding six games, Mircea Rednic's UTA Arad have hit the back of the net a combined total of 9 times, an average number of goals per match equal to 1.5.

Hermannstadt

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In the game prior to this, Hermannstadt drew 1-1 in the Liga 1 Play Offs match with Universitatea Cluj.

In that game, Hermannstadt had 45% possession and 8 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Hermannstadt was Ianis Stoica (31'). Universitatea Cluj had 12 shots at goal with 6 on target.

The stats tell the story, and Hermannstadt have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 5 goals overall. In defence, Hermannstadt could really do with shoring things up. Previous results aside, we must now wait to see if such a trend shall be maintained in this next match or not.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 23/04/2021 tells us that UTA Arad have won 2 of these games and Hermannstadt 3, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 1.

A total of 10 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 5 of them from UTA Arad and 5 for Sibienii. That’s an average goals per game of 1.67.

The previous league contest featuring the two was Liga I match day 18 on 02/12/2023 which finished with the scoreline of UTA Arad 2-0 Hermannstadt.

That time, UTA Arad had 51% possession and 21 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. The goals were scored by Kevin Luckassen (79') and Claudiu Micovschi (82').

Hermannstadt got 10 shots on goal with 3 of them on target.

ℹ️ Team News: UTA Arad

The UTA Arad manager Mircea Rednic has zero fitness worries at all coming into this game owing to a fully injury-free squad available to choose from.

It seems likely that UTA Arad should opt for a 4-3-3 formation for the game with Danylo Kucher, Tiberiu Capusa, Alexandru Benga, Ibrahima Conte, Razvan Trif, Catalin Vulturar, Joao Pedro, Andrej Fabry, Claudiu Micovschi, Kevin Luckassen and Eric Johana Omondi.

📋 Team News: Hermannstadt

Thanks to a completely injury-free squad available for selection, the Hermannstadt manager Eugen Neagoe doesn’t have any fitness concerns at all ahead of this clash.

We are inclined to think that Sibienii will likely utilise a 4-4-2 system with a starting lineup of Catalin Cabuz, Mihai Butean, Valerica Gaman, Florin Bejan, Raul Oprut, Silviu Balaure, Alessandro Murgia, Sota Mino, Ianis Stoica, Gabriel Iancu and Daniel Paraschiv.

✨ Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Hermannstadt have enough to put a goal past this UTA Arad lineup, however it is unlikely to be enough to avoid defeat.

Our selection here is for a close game with a 2-1 winning score for UTA Arad when all is said and done. Let’s see what happens here.

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Peter Guest, 14:06 12/04/2024