📏 Form Guide

Universitatea Craiova

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Universitatea Craiova will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following the 1-2 Liga 1 Play Offs success over CFR Cluj.

In that game, Universitatea Craiova had 36% possession and 9 shots at goal with 4 on target. The scorer for Universitatea Craiova was Alexandru Mitriţă (51'). On the other side, CFR Cluj had 25 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. Matei Ilie (66') was the scorer for CFR Cluj.

Universitatea Craiova have not been the best at stopping their opponents recently, but they’ve also done enough to convert their own chances into goals. Looking at their last 6 games, Universitatea Craiova have seen their goal breached in 6 of them in addition to scoring in 6 of those matches. That pattern won’t necessarily be carried forward into this next game, though.

Rapid Bucharest

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Following on from suffering a loss in their previous game against Farul Constanța in Liga 1 Play Offs competition, Rapid Bucharest will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, Rapid Bucharest managed 54% possession and 17 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. The only player to score for Rapid Bucharest was Albion Rrahmani (85'). On the other side, Farul Constanța got 17 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Louis Munteanu (23', 55') scored for Farul Constanța.

In their last half-dozen clashes, Rapid Bucharest have helped themselves to a tally of 13 goals. Rapid Bucharest have also scored in every single one of those games. In that time, their defenders have had 7 goals go against them.

↔️ Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head duels going back to 31/07/2022, it’s been all-even between these two clubs with Universitatea Craiova winning 2 of those games, Rapid Bucharest 2 and 2 being drawn after 90 minutes of play.

18 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 9 for Studenţii and 9 belonging to Giuleștenii. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.

The last league clash between these sides was Liga I match day 29 on 04/03/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Universitatea Craiova 1-1 Rapid Bucharest.

In that match, Universitatea Craiova had 49% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Alexandru Mitriţă (30').

For their opponents, Rapid Bucharest had 8 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Jakub Hromada (49') was the scorer.

📰 Team News: Universitatea Craiova

The Universitatea Craiova manager Ivaylo Petev has zero fitness worries whatsoever before this match owing to a completely injury-free squad to choose from.

It’s our opinion that Studenţii will probably employ a 4-3-3 formation for the game featuring Laurentju Popescu, Stefan Vladoiu, Gjoko Zajkov, Juraj Badelj, Mihai Capatina, Alexandru Cretu, Alexandru Mateiu, Lyes Houri, Stefan Baiaram, Andrei Ivan and Alexandru Mitrita.

ℹ️ Team News: Rapid Bucharest

Thanks to a mainly available group of players, there is only the one fitness worry for the Rapid Bucharest boss Cristiano Bergodi to be concerned about. Mattias Käit (surgery) misses out for this game.

There’s a good chance that Giuleștenii will likely play in a 4-3-3 formation, settling for Mihai Aioani, Christopher Braun, Iulian Cristea, Paul Iacob, Andrei Borza, Florent Hasani, Jakub Hromada, Damjan Djokovic, Funsho Bamgboye, Albion Rrahmani and Jayson Papeau.

🔮 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Rapid Bucharest will have to perform well to be putting a goal past this Universitatea Craiova side who we think will gain the upper hand.

We’re therefore seeing a good tussle with a 1-0 winning margin for Universitatea Craiova when all is said and done.

Expecting it to be tight.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 18:03 30/03/2024