The second leg of the first leg of the Romanian championship between Hermannstadt and Farul Constanta is scheduled for Saturday, July 15 at 18:30 at the Municipal Stadium in Sibiu and will be broadcast live on Digi Sport 1, Orange Sport 1 and First Sport 1.

Hermannstadt and Farul meet in one of the most interesting games of the first round of the new championship, even if the goals of the two teams are diametrically opposed.

Hermannstadt finished last season in 12th place (6th in the play-offs) after a nine-point penalty, but without the penalty they would have been just one point away from the play-offs at the end of the regular season.

The team coached by Marius Melderasanu did not lose any important players this summer and strengthened their squad with important names such as Christian Negutz (Cindia Tirgovishte), Valerike Geman (University of Craiova) and Ruben Fonseca (Tondela), with Gabi Janku remaining behind him. only on loan from FCU Craiova.

This summer, Hermannstadt had two training camps, one in Turkey and one in Romania, in which they played four friendly matches, losing one double, 0-1 and 1-2, with Skupi (Macedonia), and winning two, 1 – 0 with Shelimber and 5-1 with Cikszereda.

Farul is playing his third official match in the new season after the defeat in the Romanian Super Cup (0:1 with Sepsi in Ploiesti) and the victory in the first match of the first preliminary round of the Champions League (1:0) in Ovidiu with Tiraspol Sherif. (return match – on Tuesday, July 18, from 20:00).

Under this name, “Farul” won the title of Romanian champion for the first time (in the track record of “Viitorula”, also with Gike Hagi on the technical bench, the championship – in the 2016-2017 season, the cup and the super cup), and in friendly matches this summer every time lost, 1-2 with Pogon Szczecin, 0-5 with Banik Ostrava and 0-3 with Varta Poznań.

This summer, Gicke Hagi brought in, among others, Zorhan Bassong, Fabio Vianna (both from FC Arges), Damien Dussault (Rapid), Romario Benzar (UTA), Nicolae Carnat (CS Mioveni), Amin Benchaib (Mioveni), Rivaldinho and Jonutz Vine (both from the University of Craiova), but lost Luis Munteanu, who returned from a loan at Fiorentina.

Gike Hagi announced that he will make a completely different team in Sibiu than the one that was at the match with Tiraspol “Sheriff”: “Those who played remain in Constanta. We are going with the others to Hermannstadt.

At least 11 players will stay at home, but we are going to Sibiu to fight, to win, because we have more than 30 players in the team, we will create a team that will also fight in the championship.”

In the previous championship, Farul and Hermannstadt played to a 0-0 draw on the road at Ovidiu, with Sibiu winning 4-0 in return (both matches were played in the regular season).

Superbet offers odds of 1.85 on the prediction X2: a draw or a win for the visitors in the match Hermannstadt – Farul.

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