Voluntari vs Botosani, the match of the 8th stage of the play-out, is scheduled for Friday, May 12, at 19:30 at the Angelo Iordanescu Stadium and will be broadcast live on Digi Sport 1, Orange Sport 1 and Prima Sport 1.

Voluntari and Botosani meet in the first leg of the penultimate stage of the play-offs, and the two teams are in a direct battle for a place that will give them a chance to participate in the Conference League, benefiting from the fact that Petrolul and Hermannstadt did not receive a European license.

At the end of the play-offs, the top two teams (or the top two teams with a European license if they are no lower than 4th) will play an elimination match and the winner will play a play-off match with the 3rd place in the play-off (or 4 -m, if “U Cluj”, also without a European license, wins the Romanian Cup after the final with “Sepsi”) to access the Conference League.

Voluntari are in 3rd place with 30 points, four points behind leaders Petrolul and two points behind FC U Craiova, and with the win they will guarantee themselves a place in the play-offs.

The team coached by Liviu Ciobotariou is the only unbeaten team in the play-offs (three wins and four draws) and comes off the back of a 2-0 home win over Mioveni.

“We should not hide, hypocrisy. We’re looking up, we want to finish ahead, play in the Conference League playoffs. I am a positive person. I am a fighter. The first goal was achieved, saving from relegation,” Liviu Chobotariu said.

Botosani are in 5th place with 28 points and a win will see them overtake the Volunteers and get the first chance of relegation, playing in the last leg at home to Mioveni, a team already relegated and having lost all seven matches so far moment without scoring a single goal.

In the previous stage, the team coached by Flavius ​​Stojkan drew 0-0 with U Cluj in the third consecutive play-out match without a win.

“We want more. We have a chance against the Volunteers, if we win that game, we’ll be in the playoffs we’ve been dreaming of. It was an intermediate goal that does not make us relax. There will be a lot of them in Voluntar,” said Flaviy Stoykan.

In the regular season, the two teams shared victories, managing to win on the field of the other: Botosani on the tour on July 23, 2022 with a score of 1-0 (Tisdell 82), and Voluntari in return on November 4, 2022, also with a score of 1-0 (Sadiku 46a).

Superbet offers odds of 1.72 on the PsF1 prediction: the hosts lead at half-time or prevail at the end of the Voluntari vs Botosani match.

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