Chindia vs Voluntari 9th round play-off tie scheduled for Friday 19th May at 20:00 at Eugen Popescu Stadium in Tirgoviste and broadcast live on Digi Sport 2, Orange Sport 3 and Prima Sport 3 .

Chindia and Voluntari will meet in one of two final stage matches to decide the second team relegated directly after Mioveni and the second team that played in the promotion and promotion group after UTA.

The calculations are simple: to stay in the playoffs, Chindia need a win against Voluntary only if FC Argesh wins their home match against Petrolul, any other combination of results will be its benefit.

Chindia are in 8th place with 22 points, one more than Argesh FC, the 9th-placed side who were directly relegated, and three behind UTA, who they can overtake if they win against Voluntari, and Aradiens ( who won by rounding off scores at the end of the regular season) will lose at home to FC Craiova.

The Anton Petrea-coached side have lost five of their last six play-off games, the last in the preliminary round, a 0-2 away defeat to Cluj.

Chindia will play again at home to Tirgovishte, at the Evgeni Popescu Stadium, looking to host the local team’s first league match after a 25-year hiatus and the first match in four years since their last promotion (three years, 11 to be exact). months and 27 days).

The Voluntari are in 3rd place with 33 points and are assured of a relegation match with FC U Craiova to determine the team that will play in the Conference League playoffs with the 3rd place in the playoffs (or 4th place if U Cluj, the team without a European license, wins the Romanian Cup final with Sepsi).

Since Petrolul and Hermannstadt also do not have a European license, the only unknown in the match between Voluntary and FC Craiova is the team that will be the host: the regulation stipulates that the game will be played on the field of the better ranked team (at the moment Oltensi , who play away from UTA, have two points ahead).

The Liviu Ciobotariou-coached side are unbeaten in the play-offs (four wins and four draws), making it a total of 12 consecutive matches without defeat in the Super League, with a 2-0 home win over Botosani in the previous round.

In the matches of the regular season, “Chindia” won in the round on the field of “Voluntari” with a score of 3-0 (Popadyuk 14, 68, 82), and in response in Ploiesti the score was equal 1-1 (Cooper 71 / Damascus 15).

Superbet offers odds of 1.36 on the 1X prediction: a win for the hosts or a draw in the match Chindia – Voluntari.

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