Live Rapid – FCSB, derby in the 6th stage of the superlig

After qualifying in the Europa League play-off, FCSB returns to the internal championship, where a Rapid duel is waiting for it, one of the unbeaten teams this season.

Before the direct match, Giulestii or much better in the standings. They are on 3, with 11 points and can be leaders at the end of the round. FCSB has only one victory in the championship and is 12, with 4 points.

Rapid – FCSB, live from 21:30

Quick – FCSB, probable teams

Rapid: Stolz – Braun, D. Ciobotariu, Kramer, Borza – K. Keita, Christensen, Gojkovic – Al. Dobre, Koljic, Micovschi
reserves: Aioani – Briciu, Blazek, Bădescu, G. Gheorghe, Petrila, Grameni, El Sawy, R. Pop, Hazrollaj, Jambor, Baroan
Absent: Pașcanu, Onea, Manea, Vulturar, Hromada (injured)
Coach: Costel Gâlcă

FCSB (4-2-3-1): Târnovanu – Cercel, M.Popescu, Ngzana, Pantea – Şut, Olaru – Miculescu, Cisotti, Fl. Tanase – Political
reserves: Zima – V. Crețu, Graovac, Kiki, Chiricheș, Lixandru, Alhassan, Edjoa, M. Toma, Stoian, Bîrliga
Absent: Dawa, Alibec, Radunovic (injured)
Coach: Elias Charalambous

Stadium: National Arena (Bucharest)
Referee: Istvan Kovacs // Assistants: Ferencz Tunyogi, Ioan Corb
Lime referee: Cătălin Popa // Assistant lime: Iulian Dima

After 5 matches, Rapid is in 3rd place, with 11 points. With a victory, Gâlcă's band will climb the first place and all finish the round as a leader, but it depends on what Craiova will do. FCSB has only 4 points and is in 12th place. With a victory, it would climb 8th.

Live ranking in the superliger

What did Costel Gâlcă and Elias Charalambous say before Rapid – FCSB

We are waiting for us, as usual, a difficult match. FCSB is in form return, has recovered players and, from this point of view, we have to make a perfect match, have a very good attitude, aggression, have as much inspiration in front of the gate and make good decisions.

Other players will enter FCSB, maybe Olaru, Lixandru. They have a pretty large lot and any player who will enter is valuable.

They have very high quality and then we must compensate from this point of view, of the organization, the attitude, the desire to win this match.

It motivates me any game to win it, I want to win this match. We are at the beginning of the championship. It is important for us that we have taken points, we are up, but we have to play many matches and, for now, we are fine.

– Costel Gâlcă

I always say that the best thing you trust is to win matches. I hope the match with Drita gave us this boost, but in a derby with Rapid I don't think you need something, you are motivated anyway.

Players motivate themselves, know what it means to everyone and think they are quite motivated. We will have an advantage only if we play well. The advantages are only on the field, if we do not play well, then we will not have it.

Radunovic will be out, but he starts to recover and I think he will soon return to the team. Good thing I had no injuries from the last match. All the players, besides Denis Alibec and Risto, are ok.

– Elias Charalambous

The hottest information before Rapid – FCSB

• Quick and FCSB are the only teams that, over time, have faced in five different major competitions: Superliga, Romanian Cup, Super Cup, League Cup and European Cups.

• The Giulesti are undecided in the first five stages, with three victories and two draws. Moreover, they have the best defense in the championship, only three goals scored.

• FCSB comes after three defeats in a row in the superlig, this being the weakest registered by the red-blue during a regular season of August 2019, when they lost five consecutive matches.

• The teams that have sent the most shot on the side of the side side in the first five rounds, quickly – 32, FCSB – 30.

• All eight goals scored by Rapid were scored from the action.

• Five of the eight goals scored by FCSB in the current championship were received in the second half.

• An interesting duel is announced to be the one between Alexandru Dobre and Florin Tanase. The player of the Giulesti scored in the previous round the 10th goal for Rapid in Superliga (32 games), eight of them being scored in 2025. On the other side, the guests' decar is the active footballer with the most goals-106, four of them being succeeded in season 2025/26.

• The Giulestii won five of the last 10 confrontations in the main internal competition, in which the red-blue ones checked a single success, even in the latest direct dispute, on April 27, 2025, Rapid-FCSB 1-2 (Tobias Christensen / Juri Cisotti, Daniel Bîrligea).

• From the position of coach, Constantin Gâlcă won three trophies with the red-blue group in 2014/2015: the title, the Romanian Cup and the League Cup.