Rapid Bucharest vs Petrolul: Romanian Championship Match Forecast

Romania

Rapid Bucuresti

Romania

Superliga

stadionul-rapid-giulesti

29 November 10:45 UTC

Petrolul Ploiesti

Romania

In the 18th round of the Romanian championship, Bucharest Rapid and Petrolul will play their match. The opponents are quite close to each other in the standings. The hosts are in eighth place, while the guests are currently in sixth place. The gap between the opponents is only two points. Which of the teams will be ahead after the face-to-face meeting, which will take place on November 29? The answer is in our forecast.

Rapid Bucuresti vs Petrolul Ploiesti Prediction and Betting Tips (29.11.2024)

Command Analysis

Rapid Bucuresti

Romania

Current form

Last season, Rapid finished the first part of the championship in second place, but in the playoffs they fell to sixth place and lost the opportunity to play in European competitions. Now the team looks even worse and has dropped to the bottom half of the table. The capital team has been showing good results lately, but still only occupies the eighth line. In the last home matches, there have been only dry victories - after the rout of Farul (5:0), victories over Hermannstadt (1:0) and UTA Arad (2:0) followed. Finally, in the last round, they managed to hold on to a draw away from home with Europa League participant CFR Cluj.

Disqualifications and injuries

Xian Emmers, Paul Jakob, Matthias Kuit and Diego Mendes will not play in the upcoming match due to injuries.

Interesting trends for betting

The team has not lost in six matches in a row.
The hosts have conceded only one goal in their last six matches.

Estimated lineup: Sigrist - Borza, Ignat, Onea, Pascanu, Manea - Petrila, Christensen, Gromada - Bupienza, N'Ji

Petrolul Ploiesti

Romania

Current form

Petrolul is currently closing the top 6, despite the fact that in nine of the seventeen matches played, they have drawn with their opponents, and this is more than half of all the games in the league. The team from Ploiesti has demonstrated excellent play in defense, having conceded fewer goals than all the leading teams in the championship. Currently, the team is only two points ahead of Rapid, so in the upcoming match they need to earn points to maintain their place in the top 6. In the last round, the club from Ploiesti suffered a home defeat to Dinamo Bucharest.

Disqualifications and injuries

The visitors will not play due to injuries Fabrizio Baiano, Justin Raducan, Valentin Tiku. Marian Huxha will not help the team due to an accumulation of yellow cards.

Interesting trends for betting

The team has lost only one of its last seven matches.
The visitors haven't conceded a goal from Rapid in their last three head-to-head matches

Estimated lineup: Zima - Radu, Ricardinho, Dumitru, Papp - Keita, Yuri - Moussaki, Hancha, Radu - Tudorie

Trends

Bet Exact score 2:0

The hosts have won two of their last three games by that score.

7.50

Bet At least one team will not score

This bet has played in seven of the hosts' last eight matches

1.65

Bet Number 2 in the final score

This pattern has worked in two of the hosts' last four matches

2.52

Tip and bets

1.85Rapid victory

The hosts have seriously started to return to the top half of the table and have demonstrated excellent results in the last rounds. It is not surprising that today the Bucharest team is considered the favorite among bookmakers. Most likely, Rapid will be able to beat Petrolul on its home field in the fundamental match for a place in the top six. The club from Ploiesti does not play very successfully on the road, so we will bet on the home team.

Our prediction is a Rapid victory at 1.85

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1.6total under 2.5 goals

Bet on total

Both teams have been focusing on defense in recent matches. In none of the last five matches have the hosts scored more than two goals, and the visitors are in a similar situation. Most likely, the fate of the face-to-face match between these rivals will be decided by one or two goals scored.

Our prediction is total under 2.5 goals for 1.60

Bet on corners

It is highly likely that the teams will be cautious in the match and will not be able to make a large number of serves from the game flag between the two of them.

Our prediction is under 8.5 corners for 2.22

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