On the 18th of February, UTA Arad and U Craiova 1948 will play a match in Craiova in a meeting of these two Liga 1 teams. The game day is forecasted to be a windy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 10 degrees, which should make for a nice day for football. U Craiova 1948 is fresh off their 0-2 loss against Universitatea Craiova. Gustavo Di Mauro struck first for Universitatea Craiova in the 16th minute on a feed from Bogdan Ilie Vătăjelu, then Baiaram added another in the 76th minute on a feed from Nistor At the end of 90 a dissapointed U Craiova 1948 couldn’t manage to score, and Universitatea Craiova took the shutout win. U Craiova 1948 is looking for direction having 3 win and 4 losses in their last 10 matches, while uTA Arad sits at 10th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 0-0 scoreless draw against Dinamo Bucureşti. Neither UTA Arad nor Dinamo Bucureşti could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 14 and 2 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a 0 – 0 draw,. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having earned only 8 points in their last 10 matches.
In their last match together, in Stadionul Motorul, UTA Arad won by a score of 1 to 0. Radu Alexandru Negru scored the first goal for UTA Arad on an own goal in the 14th minute, and that single goal was all that was necessary as neither team could manage any more scoring At the end of 90 a dissapointed U Craiova 1948 couldn’t manage to score, and UTA Arad took the shutout win.
UTA Arad hasn’t been successful in netting any goals lately. Their top scorers in the last five matches are Desley Ubbink and David Raul Miculescu, and they each have 1 goal. U Craiova 1948 is lucky enough to have a few offensive weapons, with Compagno and Balan each having 2 goals in their last 5.