Romania - Liga 1 - CFR Cluj vs Rapid Bucuresti

CFR 1907 Cluj

Arpad Paszkany announced that he will take action at the end of the season to forget the nightmare from this year. CFR's owner says that lots of his players are not interested in playing football: "I couldn't dismiss all the team in the winter break. Unfortunatley, players that i brought didn't help us with our objectives. At the game from sunday we didn't learn anything. You cannot win in 7 players, neither would Chelsea for example. Some players really don't listen to the coach, some play to be noticed, some think that a dribbling will make the difference. Solutions will come this summer."

CFR's owner said to the fans that he will try to make a competitive team once again: "We payed in time, I said that we could have a positive attitude. Now, i am thinking to take financial measures. What could i do, beat them? I tell the fans that i will make everything possible to make a competitive team in the summer break. I will bring 8-9 players.

CFR has problems in all departments, especially in attack. Missing will be De Zerbi and Kapetanos so the team will not have solutions up in front. Alin Minteuan doesn't trust Cristi Bud anymore, attacker that didn't score once in 2011.  He will try an out of the ordinary couple up front made up of Bastos and Sergiu Bus.

Probable team: Nuno Claro - Panin, Cadú, Rada, Léo Veloso - E.Koné, Peralta, Mure?an, Nicoar? - Bastos, S.Bu?; Coach: Alin Minteuan; Injured: Kapetanos, De Zerbi, Piccolo, Maftei, Edimar; Suspended: -; Backups: Minc?, Nuno Diogo, Batin, Hora, Kivuvu, Sare, Bud

LAST GAME (Pandurii Târgu-Jiu - CFR 1907 Cluj 2-1
Scored: 1-0 Valentin Lemnaru (45+1), 2-0 Stojan Vranješ (61), 2-1 Rafael Bastos (70)
Pandurii: 80. Mingote - 8. Popete (19. Avramescu '60), 3. Viera, 21. Chiriche?, 29. Grecu - 8. Apostu (16. Nistor '46), 5. Pintilii, 20. Vranjes, 25. Plea?c? (6. Cardoso '83) - 27. Lemnaru, 18. Stromajer. Coach: Petre Grigora?.
CFR: 1. Nuno Claro - 4. Panin (11. Nicoar? '56), 20. Cadu, 55. Nuno Diogo, 24. I. Rada - 8. Kivuvu - 28. E. Kone (25. Bu? '65), 22. Hora (29. Batin '57), 18. Peralta, 16. Bastos - 85. Bud. Coach: Alin Minteuan.
Yellow cards: Vranjes '49, Avramescu '87 - Nuno Diogo '78.

CFR 1907 Cluj played like a 2nd league team in the game with Pandurii. With this loss, they make the situation more complicated, being on the brink of losing their last objective this season, a place in Europa League. Minteuan's team is on the 8th place after 23 rounds, at 5p from Rapid-Dinamo-Steaua. With the first they fight tomorrow in Gruia, objective being clear - 3 points. Afther this CFR will have some easy matches with Targu Mures, U Cluj and Brasov but if they want that Europa League spot they need to win with Rapid. 

Rapid Bucuresti

The players didn't get any free days after the game with Gaz Metan. Coach Sumudica was suspended for 2 rounds, after being sent off with Gaz Metan Medias and recieved a 3500 Lei (Aprox 1000 Eur) penalty. After the suspension of Marius Constantin and Costin Lazar, Rapid cannot count even on their goal keeper, Mircea Bornescu. He recieved a 1 round suspenssion after an argue with a player in the last game.

Vladimir Bozovici and Nicolae Grigore recieved yellow cards with Gaz Metan and will also stay on the bench for 1 round.

To all these there is the conflict between coach Marius Sumudica and Ovidiu Herea, who argued in the 60th minute of the last game when the player was changed.

Probable team: D.Coman - Rui Duarte, Marcos Antonio, Gláuber, Ezequias - Roman, Olberdam, Spadacio, Césinha - Sburlea, Cassio; Coach: Marius ?umudic?; Injured: Vidanov; Suspended: Bornescu, Božovi?, N.Grigore; Backups: Straton, Grigorie, Pancu, Frunz?, Herea, Candido

LAST GAME (Rapid Bucure?ti - Gaz Metan Media? 2-1)
Scored: 0-1 Cristian Todea (8), 1-1 Gláuber Leandro (42), 2-1 Radu Zaharia (45ag)
Rapid: 33. Bornescu - 81. Candido Costa (2. Rui Duarte '20), 4. M. Antonio, 27. Glauber, 19. Bozovici - 14. M. Roman (11. Frunz? '80), 8. N. Grigore, 30. Spadacio, 7. Cesinha - 9. Cassio, 10. Herea (13. Olberdam '60). Coach: Marius ?umudic?.
Gaz Metan: 12. Ple?ca - 16. R. Zaharia, 19. Fl. Laz?r, 13. Akaki, 15. Hoban - 5. Al. Muntean, 25. Markovici (10. Fl. Bratu '72), 21. Todea, 22. Pârvulescu (20. D. Roman '61) - 27. Eric, 14. Del Campo (18. Bawab '57). Coach: Cristian Pustai.
Cartona?e galbene: Bornescu '17, N. Grigore '32, Bozovici '53, Olberdam '70, Glauber '90+3 - Fl. Laz?r '32, Pârvulescu '43.

Betting RSS doesn't think that it is a good option to bet on this game. From both teams important players are missing. We think that this will be a dull game with not so many goals but odds are low on Under 2.5.