CFR Cluj – CSKA Sofia will take place on Thursday at 20:00 in the 5th round of Group A of the Europa League.
The duel with the Bulgarians catches CFR Cluj without Dan Petrescu on the bench. This time we are not talking about a suspension of the volcanic technician or any positive test for coronavirus but about a totally unexpected divorce between the Transylvanians and the coach who brought success in Gruia in recent years. And we are talking here about three titles of championships and qualifications in the European spring. It was enough a black series of five defeats in six matches in all competitions for the rupture between “Bursuc” and the shareholding of the champion to occur, the separation occurring at the declarative level in an “amicable way”. From the duel with CSKA Sofia, a new era begins in Gruia, most likely of Eduard Iordănescu, things will be clarified in the shortest time.
CSKA Sofia is on the last place in Group A with a point won and a goal difference of 0-6;
CFR Cluj has 4 points and a goal difference of 3-8 in Group A, the Romanian champion having an average of two goals received per match;
For the Romanian champion, things are as clear as possible in this group: in order to have chances in the spring of the Europa League, CFR Cluj is obliged to get the most out of the duels with CSKA Sofia and Young Boys Berna, a team that separates it by three points. Until the duel with the Swiss, the Transylvanians have to solve the equation of the three points at stake with the Bulgarians. And this without Deac, Vinicius, Omrani and Cestor who will be absent on Thursday night.
However, the statistics are on the side of CFR, which won in Sofia in the round with 2-0, CSKA being with only one point but no goal scored in this group! As with the Romanian champion and the Bulgarians, there was an exchange on the technical bench, the place of Stamen Belchev being taken by the Bosnian Bruno Akrapovic, who in the last two years won the Bulgarian Cup with Lokomotiv Plovdiv.
PREDICTION: CFR Cluj to win @ 1,70
