On Sunday, November 20, at 20:30 at the “Zimbru” stadium in Chisinau, a friendly match between Moldova and Romania will take place, which will be broadcast live by Pro Arena.

Romania is playing a training match with Moldova on the day of the official start of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the final tournament in which the “tricolors” missed the qualification.

Under the leadership of Mirel Redoi, Romania finished 3rd in a group with Germany, North Macedonia, Armenia, Iceland and Liechtenstein, so they didn’t even qualify for the playoffs.

Later, with Edi Iordenescu on the bench, the Tricolors finished last in their Nations League group, League B, behind Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Finland, and were relegated to League C.

The test with Moldova comes after Romania lost a 1-2 home friendly against Slovenia on November 17, the last match before their debut in the Euro 2024 qualifying tournament (a group with Switzerland, Israel, Kosovo, Belarus and Andorra). ).

“For me, the game with Moldova is more important. We need to draw a line, let’s sort it out. We are going and waiting for a positive result. We will find him. We must have courage. I think that the national team, even with many changes compared to September, showed that there is a future,” said Edi Iordenescu.

Moldova, which will be headed by Serhiy Kleschenko from December 2021, lost a friendly match in Chisinau against Azerbaijan on November 16 with a score of 1:2.

Moldova had a good run in League D of the Nations League, where they finished the group in 2nd place with 13 points, as did Latvia, who were promoted to League C.

Moldova has four footballers playing in the Super League from Romania: Ihor Armash (central defender), Vadym Ratsa (central midfielder), Vitalie Damashkan (striker) – all from FC Voluntari and Virgil Postolaki (striker) – from UTA Arad.

The most important player for the Moldovans is left-back Oleh Reabchuk, a regular player for Olympiakos Piraeus (he also played for Pacos Ferreira, after his youth training in Portugal, among others for Sporting Lisbon and Porto).

The two representatives met seven times, only in friendly matches, but only three of them are recognized in the international record.

Romania have won five times against Moldova, with two more draws: 3-1 (1996), 5-1 (1998), 0-0 (1998), 3-2 (2005), 2-0 (2007) . , 3-3 (2011) and 2-1 (2015), only three matches were counted (1996, 1998, 2007).

Superbet offers odds of 2.10 on the GG prediction: both teams will score in the match Moldova – Romania.

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