Rapid – Universitatea Craiova, match counting for the 7th stage of the Romanian championship play-off, is scheduled, Monday, April 29, from 8:30 p.m., at the Giulesti Stadium, and will be broadcast live by Digi Sport 1, Orange Sport 1 and Prima Sport 1.
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Rapid is playing its last chance for a place in Europe against the Craiova University, who in turn need a good result in order not to lose contact with the podium, in the game that ends the 7th stage of the play-off of the SuperLiga.
Rapid has 29 points, five less than Universitatea Craiova, with whom it is competing for one of the two positions in the Conference League, and comes after a tie result recorded in the previous stage, score 2-2 away from FCSB (it was played on the National Arena), which ended a streak of five consecutive defeats (it is the only team without a win in the play-offs).
The team now coached by Bogdan Lobonţ has lost all three matches played at home in this play-off, 1-2 with Farul, 1-4 with CFR Cluj and 0-1 with Sepsi (in the regular season it ticked off 10 successes, two draws and three failures at home), and the goalscorer of Giulești is Albion Rrahmani, with 17 successes in the SuperLiga.
Attention, Rapid is the team with the most goals conceded in the play-offs, 14 in six stages!
Craiova University has 34 points, being only one behind those from Farul, who have already played in this round, and comes after three wins and three defeats recorded in the play-off, and in the previous stage they lost at home in against CFR Cluj, score 0-1.
The team now coached by Costel Gâlcă won twice, 2-1 with CFR Cluj and 3-1 with Sepsi, and lost once, 0-2 with FCSB, in the games played away in this play-off (in the season regularly ticked off six successes, five draws and four failures on foreign grounds), and the best scorer of Olten in the championship is Alexandru Mitriţă, with 13 goals.
It should be mentioned that the University of Craiova obtained four victories in the last five trips in the SuperLiga!
In the two direct matches of the regular season, Rapid prevailed in the round, on home ground, with 2-0 (Funsho Bamgboye 36, Borja Valle 80), so that in the return leg, in Bănie, a draw was recorded, 1-1 (Mitriță 30 / Hromada 40); Craiova University prevailed, instead, in the play-off, at home, score 2-1 (Baiaram 59, Mitriţă 66p / Funsho Bamgboye 48).
Superbet offers odds of 1.42 for the 1X prediction: victory for the hosts or a draw in the match Rapid – Universitatea Craiova.
| Rapid – University of Craiova | 1X | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Quota | 1.42 |
* rate valid at the time of publication of this article
