Rapid vs. FCU 1948 Craiova, match count for the 22nd round of the Romanian Championship, scheduled for Friday, January 19, at 20:00 at the Giuleşti Stadium, will be broadcast live on Digi Sport 1, Orange Sport 1 and Prima Sport. 1.

“Rapid” and FKU 1948 Craiova will meet in one of the most interesting games of the 22nd stage of the Super League, the first scheduled for 2024. The main goal of both teams is to reach the playoffs at the end of the regular season.

Rapid are in 4th place with 33 points, 11 behind leaders FCSB and are now six rounds without a win in the league, recording four draws and two defeats in that period, with a draw away to Rapid in the last round . Farul, score 0-0.

During this competitive hiatus, Rapid brought in Florent Hasani, Borysav Burmaz, Ermal Krasnich and Damian Djokovic, and drew (3-3 with Sakaryaspor) and lost twice in the three friendly games played at the training camp in Turkey (1-2 with Sabah and 2-3 with Westerlo).

“I saw the new players at work, I say we will do well. It’s normal that they suffer, I had eight days of training, three matches, and it’s not easy to immediately implement ideas, immediately understand what I want from them. But they are good players, judging by what we saw in training,” Juleste coach Cristiano Bergodi said.

Rapid have five wins, two draws and three defeats at home in this league, while the team’s top scorer is Albion Rahmani, who has six wins in the Super League.

FCU 1948 Craiova is in 9th place with 27 points, three out of the play-off position and the same out of the play-offs, and comes off the back of five straight wins, four in the Super League and one in the Romanian Cup (a competition in which they qualified for the quarter-finals ), the last of them was received on the home field, in the championship, with a score of 2-0 against Petrolul.

Olteni, who have not moved at all in the transfer market, played just one friendly match during the winter training camp at the National Football Center in Bufta, scoring 2-4 against Poli Yassa.

“I’m not worried, I’ve tried a few players who haven’t developed much or at all. The match with “Rapid” is difficult, friendly matches cannot be compared with Super League games. After the first two matches, we can determine whether we have a chance to qualify for the playoffs,” Olten coach Giovanni Costantino said.

FKU 1948 Craiova have three wins, two draws and five defeats in their away games in the Super League this season, with Aurelian Kitsu as the team’s top scorer with nine goals in the league.

In a tour match on 25 August 2023, Rapid beat FCU 1948 Craiova 5-3 with goals from Dugandzic (21), Sapunara (45), Petrila (56) and Rrahmani (65, 90+1) , respectively, Chitsu (4, 78) and Lacroix (48).

Superbet offers odds of 1.28 on the 1X prediction: home win or draw in the match “Rapid” – FCU 1948 Craiova.

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