Petrolul Ploieşti vs UTA Arad Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Petrolul Ploieşti

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Petrolul Ploieşti will want to continue from where they left off last time out with the 1-2 Liga 1 Play Offs success versus Universitatea Cluj.

In that game, Petrolul Ploieşti managed 33% possession and 8 shots at goal with 3 on target. For Petrolul Ploieşti, the scorers were Christian Irobiso (62') and Tommi Jyry (64'). On the other side, Universitatea Cluj had 19 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Ante Roguljić (55') was the scorer for Universitatea Cluj.

It has been a rare occasion in recent games that Petrolul Ploieşti have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Petrolul Ploieşti have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 9 goals in the process. Regardless, time will tell if the trend might continue on in this upcoming game or not.

UTA Arad

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Since suffering a loss in their previous game against Hermannstadt in Liga 1 Play Offs competition, UTA Arad will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, UTA Arad had 51% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for UTA Arad was Claudiu Micovschi (62'). On the other side, Hermannstadt got 11 shots on goal with 4 on target.

In the course of their six most recent matches, Mircea Rednic's UTA Arad have managed to stick the ball in the net a total of 9 times - giving them the goals per game average of 1.5.

↔️ Head to head

The previous league match between these clubs was Liga I match day 27 on 24/02/2024 when the final score was UTA Arad 1-0 Petrolul Ploieşti.

On that day, UTA Arad had 46% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Marcelos Freitas (45').

On the other side, Petrolul Ploieşti got 25 shots at goal with 7 of them on target.

📋 Team News: Petrolul Ploieşti

The Petrolul Ploieşti manager Florin Pârvu has no fitness concerns to speak of coming into this clash with a fully healthy group available to select from.

🗞️ Team News: UTA Arad

Owing to a fully injury-free group ready to go, the UTA Arad manager Mircea Rednic has zero fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this game.

🔮 Prediction

Our feeling is that UTA Arad will need to push hard to register a score against this Petrolul Ploieşti team who should manage to get a goal of their own in a winning performance.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a very competitive encounter with a 1-0 victory for Petrolul Ploieşti when the referee blows for full-time.

Hopefully it’s a good one.

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

Peter Guest, 04:04 19/04/2024