Romanian League
2010-02-20 - Gloria Bistrita vs FC Timisoara
A Sports Betting Pick by ROzsolt
Football: Romania, Liga 1 - Stage 18
Stadion Gloria, Bistrita
Saturday 20th February 2010 - Kickof 15:15 local (13:15 GMT)
Preview: A match between two teams with very different objectives. While Gloria is fighting to avoid relegation, Timisoara is a club with ambitions to win the championship this year.
Gloria Bistrita (17th) W2-D8-L7 13:24
Founded in 1922 Gloria is a club with tradition in Romanian first league but they never had great performances excluding a Cup win in 1994. Having financial difficulties their only goal this year is to avoid relegation.
The new coach from this winter is Marius Sumudica, ex-Rapid Bucuresti player who is making his debut in Liga 1 as a coach. The squad did not suffered any important modifications in the mini-mercato period.
Gloria Bistrita haven’t lost any of their friendly games this winter (from 7 games).
Albut
Velcovici, Frasinescu, Nastase, Homei
Coroian, Muresan
Petre, Ze Rui, Hora
Moraes
Last 5 home results :
11.12.2009 Liga 1 Etapa 17 Gloria Bistrita 1-1 Rapid
22.11.2009 Liga 1 Etapa 14 Gloria Bistrita 2-1 FC Brasov
02.11.2009 Liga 1 Etapa 12 Gloria Bistrita 1-1 Gaz Metan Medias
18.10.2009 Liga 1 Etapa 10 Gloria Bistrita 2-1 Otelul Galati
27.09.2009 Liga 1 Etapa 8 Gloria Bistrita 0-2 CFR Cluj
FC Timisoara (4th) W8-D7-L2 29-12
Just 3 points behind leader CFR Cluj, Timisoara is in the battle for winning the title this year which would mean a qualification in UCL group stage. They missed it this season after they eliminated Shakhtar Donetsk in 2nd qualification round but lost in the 3rd qual. round against Stuttgart (0-2 agg.)
In the transfer period Timisoara succeeded to sign Romanian U21 international Laszlo Sepsi from SL Benfica, Cosmin Contra (Getafe) and Dede (Angola international). They also lost some key players like Armenian international Artiom Karamyan and their top-scorer Gigel Bucur.
This is exactly the kind of game they have to win if they want to live up to the expectations, and demonstrate they are a strong candidate for winning the title.
Pantilimon
Sepsi, Luchin, Nibombe, Bonfim
Bourceanu, Alexa
Mejia, Goga, Kozak
Magera
Last 5 away results :
13.12.2009 Liga 1 Etapa 17 FC Brasov 1-0 FC Timisoara
29.11.2009 Liga 1 Etapa 15 Gaz Metan Medias 2-6 FC Timisoara
08.11.2009 Liga 1 Etapa 13 Otelul Galati 3-3 FC Timisoara
25.10.2009 Liga 1 Etapa 11 CFR Cluj 0-0 FC Timisoara
05.10.2009 Liga 1 Etapa 9 International Curtea de Arges 0-3 FC Timisoara
Head to head :
01.08.2009 Liga 1 Etapa 01 FC Timisoara 1 - 0 Gloria Bistrita
25.04.2009 Liga 1 Etapa 27 Gloria Bistrita 0 - 1 FC Timisoara
05.10.2008 Liga 1 Etapa 10 FC Timisoara 1 - 0 Gloria Bistrita
29.03.2008 Liga I Etapa 26 Gloria Bistrita 0 - 0 FC Timisoara
29.09.2007 Liga I Etapa 09 FC Timisoara 3 - 1 Gloria Bistrita
The Betting Verdict :
Timisoara is a team that doesn’t concede many goals, only 12 in 17 games.
Gloria should not put them in major difficulties during this match, they will try to defend and hit on counter-attack even if they are playing home. The home advantage doesn’t count too much because Gloria has a low attendance (an average of 3000).
FC Timisoara is the team with more quality so nobody expects any surprise from their technically limited opponents even if it will be a tight match.
It’s definitely a low scoring X2 match.
The Pick :
Gloria Bistrita 0-1 FC Timisoara
BEST BETTING TIP :
Take Under 2.5 Goals as the main betOr try FC Timisoara to win
