Lazio vs CF Cluj, UEFA Conference League Round of 16 Playoff First Leg, scheduled for Thursday, February 16 at 10:00 p.m. at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome and will be broadcast directly outside the Pro Arena.
Lazio and CFR Cluj, two teams struggling domestically, meet in a “double” that aims to reach the last 16 of the UEFA Conference League.
Lazio lost their last Serie A match 0-2 at home to Atalanta and are 6th in the league, 20 points behind leaders Napoli and just two points off the UEFA Champions League.
Maurizio Sarri’s side are in crisis with just two draws in their last three league games, which saw them crash out of the Coppa Italia after a 0-1 loss against Juventus.
Lazio come from the UEFA Europa League, where they finished 3rd in a group with Feyenoord, Midtjylland and Sturm (all teams had the same number of points) and were knocked out of the play-offs last season by the “eighty” . ยป from FC Porto.
Stefan Radu, Lazio’s most capped player in the club’s history (426), has been banned from UEFA and cannot play against the Romanian champions.
CFR Cluj travel to Rome on the back of two Super League defeats, 0-1 at home to FCSB and 0-2 away to Universitatea Craiova, and sit 2nd in the table, two points behind leaders Farul Konstanz.
“This is a match that a football player wants to play, and a coach wants to be on the bench. An extraordinary stadium, CFR Cluj has been several times, I have only been twice. It’s a match you want to play, I expect the players to give their all. The pressure is on Lazio, not us. We are going to play,” Transylvania coach Dan Petrescu said before the match between Lazio and CFR Cluj.
CFR Cluj started its European adventure in the UEFA Champions League, where it was eliminated in the first preliminary round by Pyunik Yerevan, then went through the UEFA Conference League preliminary tournament against Inter Club d’Escaldes, Shakhtar Soligorsk and NK Maribor. to finish in place. 2, a group that also included Sivasspor (directly qualified for the top 10), Slavia Prague and Balkans.
The two teams also met in the 2019-2020 UEFA Europa League, with each winning at home: CFR Cluj 2-1 and Lazio 1-0.
Superbet offers odds of 1.38 on prediction 1: victory of the hosts in the match Lazio – CFR Cluj.
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