​Sepsi vs Petrolul, which opens the 18th stage of the Romanian Championship, is scheduled for Friday, November 11 at 21:00 and will be broadcast live on Digi Sport 1, Orange Sport 1 and Prima Sport 2.

The 18th stage of the Super League, the last one before the break caused by the World Cup in Qatar, opens with a match between Sepsi OSK Sf.Gheorghe and Petrolul Ploiesti, who are claiming a place in the playoffs at the end of the tournament. regular season.

After 17 stages, Sepsi is in 8th place with 22 points, four less than the team in 6th place (the last one to secure a place in the playoffs), today’s opponent Petrolul.

The team trained by Cristiano Bergodi achieved two successes, one impressive in the Super League, 5-0 at FC Arges, and one “control” in the Romanian Cup, 3-2 against Dynamo Bucharest.

This after the team from Covas lost four matches in a row in the championship, which seemed to seriously shake the chair of the Italian coach.

“We are coming back. We are thinking about the match with Petrolul. The team is back, but I wasn’t worried even if we lost four matches in a row,” said Cristiano Bergodi.

For his part, Sepsi boss László Diosegy said: “To be honest, I didn’t even think for half a second about sacking Bergódi. I am a supporter of stability.

Despite four losses, we did not concede to any opponent and faced the best teams in the country. We play beautiful football, we have the ball, huge opportunities, unfortunately, Bergodi cannot go out on the field and score by himself!”.

“Petrol” is in 6th place in the rating with 26 points accumulated after 17 stages, and moves to “St. Gheorghe” after a run of three consecutive victories in the Super League: 2-0 against FC Argesh (a), 1-0 against FC Voluntari (d) and 2-1 against UTA Arad (a).

However, Prahoven is the only team in the top six with a negative goal difference (17-18) and has the weakest attack among the groups in the playoff positions (17 goals scored in 17 stages, an average of one goal per match) .

“It doesn’t matter where the team is, we are in the place that everyone at this club has worked for. We never considered changing Nae Constantin after this series of results, as everyone recommended.

We saw each other about our work and we continue to see each other, just as bitter and with our pain,” said Kostel Lazar, president of the Yellow Wolves.

The last time these two teams met was on October 20 in the Romanian Cup, when Sepsi won 3-1 at Petrolula Stadium, the goals coming from Rondon (51), Ninai (63) and Safranco (89) respectively, Great (48).

Superbet offers odds of 1.57 on prediction 1: victory of the home team in the match Sepsi – Petrolul.

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