On Saturday, March 30, at 21:00 at the Ion Oblemenco Stadium, the match of the second stage of the play-offs of the Romanian championship “Universitat Craiova” – “Rapid” will take place live on Digi Sport 1, Orange. Sport 1 and Prima Sport 1.

“University of Craiova” and “Rapid”, the two strongest teams of 2024, fighting for a place on the podium according to the results of the championship, will meet in one of the most interesting games of the 2nd stage of the Super League playoffs.

Craiova University have 28 points, seven adrift of leaders FCSB, and made a brilliant play-off debut with a resounding 2-1 win at CFR Cluj.

Olteni comes on the back of an eight-game unbeaten run in the league, which saw them win five and draw three (unbeaten since January 28, 0-3 at home to FCSB).

In this season’s Super League matches at home, Ivaylo Petev’s team has won seven, drawn five and lost three, and their top scorer in the championship is Aleksandru Mitrica with 11 goals.

Attention, in the last six matches “University Craiova” won only once at home, on February 26, 2:1 in “Voluntar”, in the rest – two draws and three defeats!

“There are still many matches until the end, and anything can happen. We dream of winning every game, that’s our goal. We’ll see where we end up in May,” said Ivaylo Petev.

Rapid have 28 points and started this playoff with a home defeat, scoring 0-2 against Farul Konstanz, their second defeat in the Super League since December 9, 2023 (they also lost away at Poli Iasi, 1- 3).

Cristiano Bergodi’s side are coming off the back of two wins, a draw and two defeats in their last five league outings, but the fact that Giulesti’s side have won their previous five matches gives them good form.

In this championship, “Rapid” won five, drew eight and lost two away, and the top scorer of the team is Albion Rahmani with 13 successes in the Super League.

“It’s not an all or nothing match, but we have to win to stay away from FCSB. It’s not crucial, it’s important. It would be a problem to lose, especially after we lost the first match,” said Cristiano Bergodi.

In direct matches of the regular season, Rapid won the round in Julesti against the players of the University of Craiova with a score of 2-0 (Funsho Bamgboye 26, Borja Valle 80), so that in the second leg in Ban to register a draw, the score 1-1 (Mitriţă 30 / Hromada 49).

Superbet offers odds of 1.75 on the GG prediction: both teams will score in the match between Universitat Craiova and Rapid.

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