Sepsi vs Rapid, a match of the round of 16 of the Romanian Championship, scheduled for Friday 10 November at 20:30 at Sf.Georghe, will be broadcast live on Digi Sport 1, Orange Sport 1 and Prima Sport. 1.

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Sepsi and Rapid open the 16th stage of the Super League, the first since the return of the regular season, with a match between two teams that are in different states: the hosts are not finding themselves after a great start to the championship, and the guests are on the wave and can move, in case of victory, to 1st place .

It will be a special match for Rapid coach Cristiano Bergodi, who left Sepsi in the summer after two Cups and a Romanian Super Cup with the St. George side.

Sepsi are in 8th place with 19 points, two points adrift of the play-off position, and have shown signs of recovery in their last three league matches with two wins and a draw, after six consecutive defeats (the previous one was a draw at home, 0- 0 with Petrolul).

Meanwhile, Liviu Ciobotariu’s side lost in the Romanian Cup Group A 2nd leg, 0-1 away to Corvinula (Ligue 2) and have no chance of making the knockout stages of the competition if they win in the last two editions.

In the matches played at home this season, Sepsi has three wins, three draws and one loss (losing once at home this season, 2-5 against FCSB) and the team’s top scorers are Isnik Alimi and Marius Stefanescu with four goals each in the Super League.

“Rapid” is in 3rd place with 29 points, two less than leaders FCSB, on whose ground it won in the previous stage (score 2-1), and one less than CFR Cluj, who also won. in Giulesti (3-1), and this after a ten-game unbeaten run in the league (seven wins and three draws; they haven’t lost since August 13, 0-2 at home to Petrolul).

Cristiano Bergodi’s team are virtually unbeaten in 12 official games, with a win (3-1 at Botosani) and a draw (0-0 at Genca-cu-Steaua) in Group B of the Romanian Cup (will play a decisive match for qualification in the quarter-finals, at home, December 6, from the CFR Cluj).

In seven away matches of the current championship, Rapid have three wins, one draw and one defeat, and the team’s top scorer is Albion Rrahmani, who scored six successes in the Super League (the forward from Kosovo will not play again this year due to an injury, being at recovery stage).

The teams played to a 0-0 draw in Giulietta on July 14th in the tour match, and they met four times last season, with Rapid winning both regular season matches, 2-1 away and 3-0 at home. Sepsi to get revenge in the playoffs, 2-0 at home and 0-0 in the capital.

Superbet offers odds of 1.45 on the prediction X2: a draw or a win for the visitors in the Sepsi – Rapid match.

Sepsis – Fast X2
Quota 1.45

* the tariff is valid at the time of publication of the article