Romania - Liga 1 - FCM Targu Mures vs Victoria Branesti

FCM Targu-Mures

Coach Ioan Ovidiu Sabau wants FCM to win all the points with Victoria: “We played bad at Craiova. We need to forget fast that game and concentrate on the next one with Victoria Branesti. They have a good team, a team that caused trouble to Rapid, if we make our game we would surely win. We cannot miss this one. It is a six point game!”

Ioan Ovidiu Sabau has all the team available, the only exception being Dorel Zaharia who is uncertain till the game. He didn’t play at Craiova and if he will not make the game Lucian Raduta will get its place.

Probable team: Balauru - L.Rus, Iencsi, Bruno Fernandes, Szilagy - Vagner, Vasilache, Fl.Dan, Astafei - Didi, Raduta; Coach: Ioan Ovidiu Sabau; Injured: Topic; Uncertain: Zaharia; Suspended: -; Substitutes: Stetca, Cr.Munteanu, Vartic, Ruiz, Cordos, Issa Ba

LAST GAME (Universitatea Craiova - FCM Targu-Mures 2-1)
Scored: 1-0 Florin Costea (7), 1-1 Lucian Raduta (29), 2-1 Danijel Subotic (40)
U.Craiova: 21. Lung - 18. Dananae, 7. Gugu, 4. Zoro, 3. D. Lopes - 88. Nicolae, 5. D. Stoica, 30. Prepelita, 25. Firtulescu (28. Gangioveanu '70) - 20. Subotici (27. Bujor '61), 10. Fl. Costea (19. Stoianof '57). Coach: Laurentiu Reghecampf.
FCM: 22. Balauru - 15. Rus, 4. Cordos (19. Fl. Dan '46), 28. Cr. Munteanu, 24. L. Szilagyi - 23. D. Matei - 25. Vagner (9. Ruiz '74), 83. Vasilache, 8. Vartic, 21. Astafei - 20. Raduta (10. Didi '74). Coach: Ioan Ovidiu Sabau.
Yellow cards: Firtulescu '66, Zoro '73 - Vrtic '11, Vasilache '45+1.

FCM lost at Craiova, score 1-2, but still has 5p in front. It would have been good to have obtained at least one point but the players had a bad day. Tomorrow they play again an important game, home with Victoria Branesti. If they will win they will condemn Branesti to relegation.

Victoria Branesti

Coach Ilie Stan declared that his team needs to win the game with Targu-Mures: “I am happy that we didn’t lose with Rapid. That draw brought confidence back to my team which will need to win the game with Targu Mures. It will be a game of everything or nothing.“

There are 3 players unavailable, Velicu, Coman and Avram. The last of the three got injured in the last game and medics are doing all they can for him to be available tomorrow. Also, veteran Florentin Petre is back after an injury, but there are slim chances he will enter the pitch because the coach thinks it would be risky to use him in a game with such high stake.

Probable team: Stoicescu - Maghici, Sg.Bar, Marincau, E.Nicola - Al.Iacob - Novac, D.Popa, Olariu, Zuluf - B.Oprea; Coach: Ilie Stan; Injured: Velicu; Uncertain: Fl.Petre, R.Avram, C.Coman; Suspended: -; Substitutes: Savu, Straut, Vasilescu, Ispir, Simion, Calintaru, Lorincz

LAST GAME (Victoria Branesti - Rapid Bucuresti 0-0)
Scored: -
Victoria: 27. Stoicescu - 2. Maghici, 5. Sg. Bar, 24. Marincau, 16. Nicola - 15. Iacob - 25. Novac (4. Calintaru '82), 8. D. Popa, 17. Olariu, 30. R. Avram (19. Zuluf '70) - 10. B. Oprea (28. Straut '90+2). Coach: Ilie Stan.
Rapid: 33. Bornescu - 2. Rui Duarte, 4. M. Antonio, 27. Glauber, 3. Ezequias - 14. M. Roman (20. Grigorie '74), 8. Grigore (15. C. Lazar '67), 30. Spadacio, 11. Frunza - 10. Herea, 77. Pancu (21. Sburlea '58). Coach: Marius Sumudica.
Yellow cards: Maghici '43, Marincau '45+1, Stoicescu '90+1 - Pancu 45+1, M. Antonio '64, C. Lazar '77.

Victoria Branesti obtained the most surprising result of the 26^th round, finishing it’s game with a draw with Rapid. For Branesti this is a more important game. They have to win this game to hope for a miracle.

BettingRSS thinks that this will be a low scoring game. Both teams will want to make a mistake and if one scores, it will want to keep the result till the end, maybe going back in defense.