📏 Form Guide

Steaua Bucharest

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Steaua Bucharest are hoping to win again following a 1-0 Liga I triumph against Miercurea Ciuc.

In that game, Steaua Bucharest managed 66% possession and 22 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Steaua Bucharest was Juri Cisotti (38'). Csíkszereda Miercurea Ciuc had 14 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target.

It has been seldom in recent games that Steaua Bucharest have shown defensive steel. In fact, Steaua Bucharest have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 11 goals along the way. Such a pattern might not be sustained into this match, however.

Botoșani

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Previously, Botoșani drew 0-0 in the Liga I tie with Oţelul Galaţi.

In that match, Botoșani managed 49% possession and 26 shots on goal with 4 on target. On the other side, Oţelul Galaţi got 7 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.

Fixtures involving Botoșani have had a tendency of being somewhat laboured ones latterly with a void of goals becoming the standard. During their past half dozen clashes, the trivial gross goal return of 5 has been yielded between both them and their opposition at an average goals per game of 0.83.

Pre-game facts show that Botoșani:

• haven't beaten Steaua Bucharest in away games against them for the last 5 league games. Not good.
• are without a win away from home in their last 3 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A glance at their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 19/12/2022 shows that Steaua Bucharest have won 4 of these & Botoșani 2, with the tally of draws being 0.

An aggregate of 15 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 8 from Steliștii and 7 for Botoșănenii. That is an average goals per game value of 2.5.

The previous league match featuring these clubs was Liga I match day 10 on 19/09/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Botoșani 3-1 Steaua Bucharest.

That time, Botoșani had 40% possession and 18 attempts on goal with 7 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Andrei Dumiter (40').

For their opponents, Steaua Bucharest got 11 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Daniel Bîrligea (36') was the scorer.

ℹ️ Team News: Steaua Bucharest

We are thinking that Steliștii look set to use a 4-2-3-1 system for this one and select Matei Popa, Valentin Cretu, Andre Duarte, Siyabonga Ngezana, Risto Radunovic, Florin Tanase, Mihai Lixandru, David Miculescu, Darius Olaru, Juri Cisotti and Daniel Birligea.

🗞️ Team News: Botoșani

We reckon that Botoșănenii could decide to make use of a 4-2-3-1 lineup, giving starts to Giannis Anestis, Michael Pavlovic, George Miron, Alexandru Tiganasu, Razvan Cret, Gabriel Eugen David, Charles Petro, Stefan Bodisteanu, Enriko Papa, Sebastian Mailat and Mykola Kovtalyuk.

💡 Prediction

It looks to us that Steaua Bucharest are likely to be able to create a good number of chances & successful shots on target.

In contrast, Botoșani are also probably going to find it difficult finding the net themselves but we do fancy them converting at least once as well.

Therefore, we are anticipating a fairly comfortable 3-1 winning score for Steaua Bucharest at the end of this one.

Renata Leite, 18:13 05/02/2026