About Match
9 points for UTA Arad (14th), 10 for Botoşani (7th): a 1-point gap. Recent form flatters UTA Arad's table spot — 3rd league-wide over the last five rounds while sitting 14th. Scoring rates set the scale: UTA Arad 1.38 scored and 1.38 conceded per game, Botoşani 1.5 and 1, with the league averaging 1.22. A win would lift UTA Arad to 12 points and up to 5th, overtaking Botoşani (other results unchanged).
Three consecutive wins precede this game for UTA Arad.
10 meetings are on record — 5 won by UTA Arad, 3 by Botoşani, 2 drawn, at 2.4 goals per meeting. The pattern favours whoever hosts: home teams have won 80% of the meetings.
Stadionul Motorul in Arad, capacity 7,287, hosts the game.