Romania - Liga 1 - Pandurii Tg Jiu vs Victoria Branesti

Game to be played Sunday, at 14:00 CET

Pandurii Targu-Jiu

After U Craiova, game won away from home, score 2-0, Pandurii will dispute this weekend a survival final with Victoria Branesti. Players of Grigoras have good morale but they are also fatigued. The win with Craiova along with the one with CFR are very important. Victoria Branesti is an ambitious team, phisicly potent and agressive. They have an extra two days of recovery and if we win, we could tell that this week has been a special one. Players are not used to play so many games in just 7 days. Plesca didn't play 90 minutes even in the 3rd league, now he played twice 80 minutes in just 4 days.

For Pandurii, Grecu is suspended, but there are options for the left side defender. Cosmin Bacila is back in the team but it is excluded that he will start from the 1st minute.

Probable team: Mingote - Plea?c?, O.Viera, Chiriche?, Cardoso - Nistor, Pintilii, Vranjes, Brata - Štromajer, Lemnaru; Coach: Petre Grigora?; Injured: G.Matei, Hidi?an, Voicule?; Suspended: Grecu; Backups: Lazar, Avramescu, Voinea, Rada, Popete, B?cil?, Apostu

LAST GAME (Universitatea Craiova - Pandurii Târgu -Jiu 0-2)
Scored: 0-1 Jaka Štromajer (45), 0-2 Valentin Lemnaru (56)
U.Craiova: 21. Lung - 18. D?n?nae, 4. Zoro, 5. Stoica, 2. Bu?u (27. Bujor '46) - 13. Wendel, 3. D.Lopes - 9. M. Costea (10. Fl. Costea '54), 30. Prepeli??, 28. Gângioveanu (25. Fir?ulescu '65) - 20. Subotici.Coach:  Lauren?iu Reghecampf.
Pandurii: 80. Mingote - 25. Plea?c? (8. Popete '80), 3. Viera, 21. Chiriche?, 29. Grecu - 16. Nistor, 5. Pintilii (19. Avramescu '90+1), 21. Vranjes, 6. Cardoso (17. Brata '72) - 27. Lemnaru, 18. Stromajer. Coach: Petre Grigora?.
Yellow cards: Fir?ulescu '68, Prepeli?? '70, Wendel '75 - Grecu '85

Pandurii won the derby with Craiova and made a huge step to save itself from relegation. This game is very important that would have been thankful with at least one point with Craiova, but the fact they took all of them raised their morale. If Pandurii will win tomorrow with Victoria, they will be saved in proportion of 90% and also will recieve a 6000 Euro bonus for taking 9 points in the last 3 rounds.

Victoria Branesti

Coach Ilie Stan asks his players to give everything on the field: "Everything is clear, if we lose we go back to 2nd league. I hope that players will see the importance of this game and will give their life on the field."

Left midfielder Razvan Avram was suspended for 1 round and will miss this game.

Probable team: Stoicescu - Maghici, Sg.Bar, Marincau, E.Nicola - Novac, D.Popa, Ispir, Zuluf - B.Oprea, C.Coman; Coach: Ilie Stan; Injured: Velicu; Suspended: R.Avram; Backups: Bordeanu, Str?u?, Todoran, Vasilescu, Simion, C?lin?aru

LAST GAME(Victoria Br?ne?ti - Sportul Studen?esc Bucure?ti 1-1)
Scored: 1-0 Bogdan Oprea (81), 1-1 Viorel Ferfelea (89)
Br?ne?ti: 27. Stoicescu - 28. Str?u? (13. Vasilescu '75), 5. Sg. Bar, 24. Marinc?u, 16. Nicola - 20. Ispir - 8. D. Popa, 25. Novac (10. B. Oprea '59), 7. Todoran, 19. Zuluf (30. Avram '64) - 9. C. Coman. Coach : Ilie Stan.
Sportul: 33. Viciu - 24. Patriche (15. Ciupe '76), 5. D. Lung, 27. Ra?iu, 4. L. Cazan - 13. Ghinga, 19. Cruceru - 22. Postolache (25. L. Dobre '84), 10. Ferfelea, 28. T. B?lan (8. Nae '46) - 9. Curelea. Coach: Gheorghe Mul?escu.
Yellow cards: Todoran '45+1, Avram '74, '90+2 - Patriche '9, T. B?lan '24, Cruceru '49, Postolache '74, Ra?iu '90.
Red card: Avram '90+2.

Victoria Branesti couldn't go past Sportul Studentesc even if they lead almost all the game. A point here, wouldn't help too much though.