​Petrolul vs UTA, the first leg of the play-out, is scheduled for Friday, March 17 at 20:30 at the Ili Oana Stadium in Ploiesti and will be broadcast live on Digi Sport 1, Orange Sport 1 and Prima Sport 2.

Petrolul and UTA, two traditional teams, former champions of Romania, meet in the first round of the play-offs, each looking to avoid relegation.

The play-outs are played over nine stages, at the end of which the 1st and 2nd places will play in a play-off, after which the winner will play the 3rd or 4th place in a play-off (depending on which team won the Romanian Cup) for a place in the Conference League.

At the bottom, 7th and 8th will play a relegation and promotion play-off with 3rd and 4th in the League 2 play-off, while 9th and 10th will be relegated directly.

Petrolul finished the regular season in 8th place with 36 points (will enter the play-offs with 18 points) after winning their last match 1-0 away to FC Argesh, a success that ended a four-game losing streak in a row

Next season, the club from Ploiesti will celebrate its centenary, which hopes to play in the Super League, especially since five of the nine play-off games will be played at home, but the financial problems are still huge, so they are desperately looking for a financier to save the team.

Elsewhere, the group coached by Florin Pirvo registered six wins, three draws and six defeats in home matches, while the top scorer of the Yellow Wolves is Gheorghe Grozav, who has eight goals in the Super League.

UTA finished the regular season in 14th place with 27 points (rounding up they will enter the play-offs with 14 points) and lost the match in the 30th stage with a score of 1:2 away to the University of Craiova and the only win in the last five games were at home with FCSB, 3-1.

Laszlo Balinta’s side are the weakest in the Superliga in the hierarchy of away matches, with one win, five draws and nine defeats, while Virgiliu Postolaki is the top scorer for the Old Signora with six goals in this edition of the championship.

In the two regular season matches between the two teams, each won at home: UTA 2-0 on July 25, 2022 (Miculescu 11, 69) and Petrolul 2-1 on November 5, 2022 (Yair 52p Irobiso 67, respectively, Otele 76) .

Superbet offers a coefficient of 1.47 on the prediction X2: a draw or a victory of the guests in the match Petrolul – UTA.

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