UTA – Turnu Magurele will play on Thursday at 15:30, the confrontation will count for the second round of the promotion play-off of the Second League. In the regular season, the two teams finished undecided at Turnu Măgurele, score 1-1.
For Turris, the duel in Arad will be the second in this play-off for promotion after the one held at the end of last week, score 0-0 at home with FC Argeș, as a result of which the team from Turnu Măgurele accumulated 21 points. Instead, for the people of Arad, the match on “Motorul” will be the first in this play-off, the match that the “white-reds” should have played in the first round with Petrolul being postponed after several players of the “wolves” yellow ”were found positive for coronavirus.
-Only one direct confrontation has the two in history, the one of this regular season, score 1-1;
-The two teams are undefeated in 2020. The last failure of the “Old Lady” dating from December 1, 2019, 0-1 away with Danube Calarasi, and Linkar’s team from November 26, 2019, score 5-2 in Mioveni;
In the regular season, the “Old Lady” showed that it is the most entitled team to hope for promotion. At the time of the interruption of the season, caused by the coronavirus pandemic, UTA had 50 points in the ranking and an advance of 11 points compared to the next two ranked, CS Mioveni and Turris. Or the decision of FRF to halve the points at the entrance to this play-off for promotion was vehemently contested by the people of Arad, the approach of the “Old Lady” to TAS being unsuccessful.
An authoritarian leader in the Second League, UTA leaves the race for promotion from the first place of the play-off with 25 points, with four over Turris, a team that also has a less disputed match. With a victory in this match, the people of Arad are even closer to the dream of promotion to League 1.
PREDICTION: UTA Arad to win @ 1,89
