UTA – Voluntari, the countdown of the matches of the first stage of the play-outs of the Romanian championship, is scheduled for Monday, March 18, at 17:30 at the Franziska von Neumann Stadium in Arad, and will be broadcast live on Digi Sport 1, Orange Sport 1 and Prima Sport 1 .

UTA, who missed the playoffs in the final stretch of the regular season, opens with the first chance against the Volunteers, who are currently in direct relegation position.

UTA are in 4th place with 20 points, four behind play-off leaders U Cluj, who have already played in this round, and come after three wins and two defeats in their last five league games, with a loss in the previous round “Dynamo” is away with a score of 0:1.

Attention, Arad players will be playing to get the best possible position at the end of the season in order to get more money from TV rights, given that they did not get access to the UEFA license and thus they cannot participate in the possible play- off Conference League!

The team coached by Mircea Rednik has recorded seven wins, five draws and three defeats in their home matches in this championship (they have not lost at all at home in 2024), and the top scorer for the “Old Signora” is Claudio Mikowski, with seven successes in the Super League .

The Voluntari start the play-offs in 9th place from 10 with 14 points, which could lead to direct relegation, after a draw at home to Cluj, a draw that ended a run of four consecutive defeats in the Super Lig.

It should be noted that Ilfove have not won 12 matches in the league since December 9, 2023 to be precise, when the score was 2-1 in Giulietta with Rapid, and Nicolae Dike ended his career with three draws and four defeats!

In the away games of the current edition of the Super League, the team currently coached by Florin Pirvu, who made his debut on the Voluntari bench, recorded three wins, five draws and seven losses, and its top scorers in the championship are Adam Nemets and Andrii Dumiter with six goals each (the team with Ilfove has not scored more than one goal in any of the last 11 games).

The two teams have met each other three times this season: twice in the regular season, a 0-0 draw in Arad and a 1-0 draw for UTA at Voluntari Stadium in the second leg, and once in the group stage of the Romania Cup, a 0-0 draw in Oradea

Superbet offers odds of 1.65 on the 1X prediction: the hosts lead at halftime or win at the end of the match UTA – Voluntari.

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