CFR Cluj – Gaz Metan Mediaș will take place on Sunday at 19:00 in “Gruia”, the match will count for the ninth round of League 1.
Following the course in the first eight rounds, Dan Petrescu’s team is on the 3rd place with 18 points, three lengths away from the leader of the University of Craiova, having with three goals received the best defense of the championship. It should be noted that the Transylvanians did not lose any match in this championship, being the only ones in League 1 that can boast of this performance.
The “Badger” team is also in the schedule in the Europa League where it occupies the first place in Group A with 4 points after the victories with CSKA from Sofia, score 2-0 and the draw on the ground, score 1-1 with the Swiss the Young Boys Bern. For the Romanian champion, an important exam on “Olimpico” with AS Roma will follow on Thursday, reason for which the starters who played with the Swiss in the middle of this week will be spared with Methane Gas, “Bursucul” doing the same in the previous round 0 with FC Voluntari.
CFR Cluj is undefeated in the last 13 matches of League 1 with Gaz Metan, winning 6 of them
Gaz Metan has not defeated CFR Cluj for seven years. The last victory of the Gazas against CFR dates from December 2013, score 2-0
On the other hand, Gaz Metan, a team in which the head coach is none other than Jorge Costa, a technician who also trained CFR Cluj in the past, is on the 14th place, with only 7 points. After a good start to the championship, with two victories in the first three rounds, the Gazans entered a shadow cone being unsuccessful in the last five games of League 1, giving up four of them.
Last season, Gaz Metan did not manage to score at all in the Cluj goal. In the round of the regular season it was 3-0 for CFR, the return ending 0-0, a result recorded in the play-off round so that in the return in Gruia, CFR Cluj would prevail with 2-0.
Moreover, the “Badger” team will make an economical match, following the force as much as necessary to take into account their victory for CFR Cluj, being very important to remain in the leader’s net.
PREDICTION: Over 2,5 goals @ 1,88
