The University of Craiova – CFR Cluj will take place on Monday at 19:00, the match counting for the last stage of the League 1 play-off. In the tour, the Oltenians won 3-2.
The University of Craiova is on the 2nd place with 44 points while the title champion CFR Cluj is on the first place with 46 points. However, the Oltenians have a less disputed match, the backlog with Astra Giurgiu, a match that will be scheduled at a date that will be announced later. This backlog may not matter at all in the ranking economy if Cristiano Bergodi’s team wins the duel in Bănie with CFR Cluj. With a victory, the University will climb to the first place in the playoffs and will become the new champion of Romania. On the other hand, things are the same, a possible success of Dan Petrescu’s students making them defend their title of champions.
Oltenia has six victories out of as many as possible with Cristiano Bergodi on the bench;
CFR Cluj leads to “live” in the last five matches with three victories over one of the Oltenians, a match ending in a draw;
The selection “over 2.5 goals” in the match was “green” only in one of the last 10 “direct”;
The draw in Bănie would be to the advantage of the University, which would remain two lengths behind CFR Cluj but would have the backlog with Astra, a duel that would be within the reach of Oltenia, considering that the Giurgiu team has the decimated team after several players were found positive. to COVID-19 and would approach the game with the second gasket. An equal result in this derby would not be to the liking of those from the Professional Football League (LPF), the forum having to announce at UEFA until Monday at midnight Romania’s participant in the Champions League but also our country’s representatives in the Europa League edition 2020-2021.
In this case, the LPF Commissions will have to urgently decide the Astra-University case, the Oltenians requesting to win this arrears at the “green table”. Such a decision would be automatically challenged by CFR Cluj, the Transylvanians demanding that the title not be decided at the “green table” but also by Astra, which is considered equally guilty as Craiova of the fact that the duel in the ninth round it was not disputed according to the initial schedule, being postponed so far only four times, twice through the fault of the Oltenians and twice through the fault of the Giurgiu, both formations facing cases of COVID-19.
University of Craiova: Pigliacelli – Vlădoiu, Cosic, Acka, Vătajelu – Nistor, Mateiu, Cicâldău – Bărbuț, Koljic, Mihailă
CFR Cluj: Arlauskis – Susic, Burcă, Cestor, Camora – Aurelio, Bordeianu, Deac – Itu, Omrani, Costache
PREDICTION: Both teams to score / NO @ 1,80
