Craiova University – FCSB, which »3 details before the derby of Banie

Article by Liviu Manolache, Sergiu Alexandru – published on Sunday, April 13, 2025, 11:30 / Updated Sunday, April 13, 2025 11:30
Craiova University and FCSB meet in the 4th round derby, and the duel is announced to be extremely spectacular.
- Craiova University and FCSB are dueling from 9:00 pm. The match will be LiveText on GSP.ro, with real -time information from the stadium, and live on Primasport 1 and Digisport 1.
Former captain and coach at FCSB, Mirel Rădoi will be face to face again with the team for which he made history. It is for the third time that he faces his former team, the first match being in the first term at Craiova University: 2-1 on September 18, 2022. The last one was this season, 0-1 on March 9.
And as the two rivals showed this season, the match on Sunday evening is announced to be a spectacular one.

1. Craiova University and FCSB, two teams in shape
Craiova and FCSB University look great this season and are in great form, having excellent series in the championship. So far, the Oltenians have only one defeat on their own ground. It happened on December 1, 2024, when CFR Cluj was 2-0. Otherwise, there were 10 victories and 5 draws.
On the other side, FCSB has 17 matches in a row without defeat. On November 21, FC Botosani was required to the limit, 1-0. Then followed 11 success and 6 draws for the champion of last season.
In the direct matches, in 2014, the University of Craiova and FCSB have met in the main internal competition 38 times. The report is favorable to Bucharest: 7 victories for the University, 25 for FCSB and 6 draws.
- The most recent direct dispute in the Super League: March 9, 2025, FCSB-university Craiova 1-0, empty scored by Adrian Şut.
- The last successful victory of white-blue in the championship: May 6, 2024, Craiova-FCSB University 2-0.
- The last white draw was recorded on April 4, 2021, with the host FCSB.
2. Alex Mitriță vs. Daniel Bîrligea
The Sunday match will also represent a duel between two of the best players in the internal championship: Alexandru Mitiriță and Daniel Bîrligea. The two Romanian internationals showed excellent this season, being essential for their teams.
The extreme of the Oltenians has so far contributed to 21 goals. Scored 14 times and offered 7 decisive passes. On the other side, Daniel Bîrligea participated in 13 of the successes of Bucharest (11 goals, a decisive pass, plus a penalty removed and transformed by another colleague).
It should be noted that in Olteni and Stefan Baiaram it has spectacular figures: 10 goals, 4 decisive passes and two penalties removed and transformed by one other colleagues.
13 matchesWithout a goal he has FCSB, all with Stefan Târnovanu in the gate. Of these, 7 were in 2025.
28 playersThey evolved for Craioveni in the current season, Laurenciiu Popescu being an integralist. FCSB was based on 34 footballers, 23 of them being local (Craiova University – 14 local).
3. countries at fixed phases and everything on the attack
Craiova and FCSB University are two of the formations that practice offensive football. The Oltenians scored 50 goals, FCSB has one in the minus. There are teams with the most goal shots sent in the previous 33 rounds: FCSB – 182, Craiova University – 169. Also, they are the first in the successful dribbling chapter, the Oltenians have 314, the red-blue have 295.
23 goalsscored FCSB in the first half, interval in which the Oltenians received 21
The two rivals are excellent at the fixed phases. Both are in the top at the goals scored from such moments of the game. In addition, they appear excellent, being the formations with the fewest goals received from fixed phases.
Specifically, Rădoi's students scored 15 times from fixed phases (7 penalties, 6 corners, two free strokes) and received 7 goals (5 of the corner, one of the free kick, one of the aut). On the other side, FCSB scored 16 goals (6 penalties, 6 corners, 4 free strokes) and received 8 (3 penalty, 3 of the corner, two of free kicks)




