U.Cluj vs. Dacia Mioveni - Preview

        Odds are truely a delight. CS Mioveni has big problems before this game. First of all, they are bottom of the table, just 8 points, and 9 points short of safety. The chairman brought in well-known players for Romanian League table just before the season started, gave them big wages, and they showed nothing on the pitch. As a result, he fired them after their latest 2-1 defeat at home to Vointa Sibiu. So, quite simply, for this game, Dacia Mioveni will play mostly with reserves, inexperienced players for this level. At the same time their chairman announced that he will stop investing money in the team, quite useless for him as he spent a lot of money on the players he just fired, the team has no results, and it looks impossible to avoid relegation.

 

    So imagine how great morale the Mioveni players will have for this game.

 

    Now... U.Cluj. Poor run, sacked their coach, than re-hired him. Players are happy with the decision. They are a good team, top table material, just been a bit unlucky lately. The strikers missed many chances in their latest games against strong opponents, and the team failed to collect points. But they are a top team.

 

   So... they will want to take revenge here, on a dismantled Mioveni team, which could end up playing it\'s last official game here. And... the coach of U.Cluj, Badea, decided to play with 3 strikers here: Niculescu-Ad.Cristea-Machado. Ain\'t that sweet.

 

   Bonus fact - Marian Pana is the coach of Dacia Mioveni nowadays. He had a similar experience when managing Unirea Urziceni in the end of last season. His results there whenever his team played on the road, were all high scoring games - of course with his team getting hammered, sometimes really badly. For example, he played against U.Cluj and Badea away, the game ended 4-2.

 

   The fact that U.Cluj starts its games really open,and create numerous chances, makes them extremelly likely to score a fast goal here. From that point on, Mioveni crashes, and more goals come. And with the hosts playing so offensive, the guests might also have a chance of scoring, in a totally open game which I expect. So why not take over 3.5 here at excellent odds.