Romania - Liga 1 - Targu Mures vs CFR Cluj

FCM Targu-Mures

Coach Ioan Ovidiu Sabau considers this game as Transilvania derby and mentioned that the game against Gaz Metan was really though for his players. "At the game with CFR we will miss Vasilache, Fernandes, but i hope Didi will be available on monday. Likewise, we can count on Issa Ba and Ruiz. They say that CFR is weak in the last rounds, mainly away from home, but i think here will be different. It will be somekind of a derby. We need to be mentaly prepared".

Defender Bruno Fernandes was sent off in 21st minute of the game with Gaz Metan. He will be suspended for this game and it is the 3rd time this season when he is sent off.

Probable team: Balauru - L.Rus, Iencsi, Cr.Munteanu, Szilagy - Ba, Vartic, Fl.Dan, Astafei - Didi, Zaharia; Coach: Ioan Ovidiu Sabau;Injury : Topi?; Suspended: Bruno Fernandes, Vasilache; Backups: ?te?ca, Vagner, D.Matei, Raduta, Petcut, Ruiz

LAST GAME (Gaz Metan Medias - FCM Târgu-Mure? 0-0)
Scored: -
Gaz Metan Media?: 12. Ple?ca - 16. R. Zaharia, 19. Fl. Laz?r (3. Trtovac '63), 13. Khubutia, 15. Hoban - 21. Todea, 25. Markovici (17. Dudi?? '31) - 5. A. Muntean (80. Miclea '52), 20. D. Roman, 27. Eric de Oliveira - 18. Bawab. Coach: Cristian Pustai.

FCM Târgu-Mure?: 22. Balauru - 15. Rus, 33. Fernandes, 17. Iencsi, 24. L. Szilagyi - 83. Vasilache (25. Vagner '59), 23. D. Matei, 19. Fl. Dan, 21. Astafei - 20. R?du?? (8. Vârtic '46), 80. D. Zaharia (28. L. Munteanu '72). Coach: Ioan Ovidiu Sab?u.
Yellow cards: Todea '31 - Vasilache '9, D. Matei '21, L. Szilaghi '54, Iencsi '85.
Red cards: Fernandes '20.

Targu Mures obtained their objective with Medias. The draw is more precious because they were one man down for 70 minutes after Bruno Fernandes was sent off. In the game tomorrow with champion CFR, the team would want to obtain victory but would do with a draw also. If they go well past the next games with Craiova and Branesti the team is almost 100% saved and will have a nice ending of championship.

CFR 1907 Cluj

Even if his team is performing under par, it seems that Minteuan will remain as coach of Cluj until the end of the championship. The players have 10 rounds to convince their owners that they deserve to stay at the team.

Captain Ricardo Cadu and midfielder Rafael Bastos will not play in this game because of suspension. "We have half of the team injured. Even at Barcelona if you have 3 important players out it is not the same team. With Rapid we missed Peralta, now with Targu-Mures we will miss Cadu and Bastos. Whatever we will do i think we will finish in the middle of the table" said owner Paszkany.

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

LAST GAME (CFR 1907 Cluj - Rapid Bucure?ti 0-1)
Scored: 0-1 Juliano Spadacio (21)
CFR: 1. Nuno Claro - 4. Panin, 20. Cadu, 55. Nuno Diogo, 11. Nicoar? - 8. Kivuvu (21. Negru? '81) - 28. E. Kone (29. Batin '71), 6. Mure?an, 22. Hora (85. Bud '54) - 16. Bastos, 25. Bu?. Coach: Alin Minteuan.
Rapid: 89. Straton - 2. Rui Duarte (5. Vidanov '78), 4. M. Antonio, 27. Glauber, 3. Ezequias - 20. Grigorie, 30. Spadacio, 13. Olberdam, 7. Cesinha (77. Pancu '84) - 10. Herea (11. Frunz? '73), 9. Cassio. Coach: Marius ?umudic?.
Yellow cards: Hora '23, Kone '38, Cadu '53, Mure?an '71, Nicoar? '55, Panin '75, Bastos '90+1 - Olberdam '31, M. Antonio '81, Ezequias '88, Straton '90+4

CFR lost the game with Rapid and is far away from a potential place in Europa League. There are chances theoreticaly but it seems hard to believe that this will happen because the team doesn't play anything. Even the owner gave up hope and said that the place in the table reflects the value of the team. The departure of Culio and Traore made the difference, besides, De Zerbi and Kapetanos were almost all the time injured.

Betting RSS thinks that CFR's players need to build on something because coming up next is the local derby with U Cluj. Cluj are capable of at least a draw here.