10 things to be followed in stage #7 of the Superliga “” erupts “Oblemenco? + FC Argeș, Surprise Advantage in the Duel with FCSB

1. If it's Friday it's Metaloglobus

If this is Friday, it is certainly playing the newly promoted metaloglobus! Ever since the new competition season began, the band from Pantelimon neighborhood has been scheduled by the Professional Football League to play on the first day of the round.

Metaloglobus – U Cluj was the match that opened the season 2025-2026 and since then, until round 6 inclusive, the Bucharest people have always played the first match of the stage on Friday. This time they will play Friday again, but for the first time they will do it in the second match of the day. Metaloglobus – Rapid was scheduled from 9:30 pm, Friday, August 22.

2. We have players on the verge of suspension

After the first 6 stages of Superliga we also have the first players at the limit of the suspension, who have already accumulated three yellow cards and who the following warning will be on “Tuşă” a round. It's about:

• Vahid Selimovic (FC Hermannstadt)

• Mihai Popescu (FCSB)

• Bruno Carvalho, Christ Kouadio (Metaloglobus)

In the superlig, there is a stage at 4, 7 and 9 yellow, then at each warning collected.

3. Roman duel – purece, 6 goals and 5 decisive passes together

The duel that opens the round, on Friday, from 7:00 pm, UTA – Unirea Slobozia, is also a duel between Alin Roman and Florin Purece, two of the most form of the season start in Superliga.

Alin Roman He is the player of the beginning of the season in the superliger, next to the eighth of the Aradians being recorded three goals and three decisive passes. On the other side, remarkable and his benefits Florin Purecewho scored three times and offered two assists.

UTA and Union met in the main internal competition only in the previous season, three times. The Aradians prevailed in the first duel (April 5, 2024, Unirea-Suta 0-1), the other two parties being won by the group from Slobozia.

4. Eduard Radaslavescu, at match 100

Eduard Radaslavescu

If he will receive minutes from Ianis Zicu in the match Hermannstadt – Lighthouse, scheduled on Monday, August 25, from 7:00 pm, Eduard Radaslavescu will check an important terminal.

It will reach the match with the number 100 in the Superliga, being the second eligible domestic player U21 (born after January 1, 2004) that touches this terminal, after Andrei Borza (Rapid – 105 games).

5. Craiova, the only team with victories on the line at home, oil, without fail to travel

Triumph in Istanbul

After the first 6 rounds consumed in the new season, Craiova University is the only team in Superliga that has victories on the line at home: 3 out of 3 and 9 points. To these results are added two victories in the preliminaries Conference League, 4-0 with Sarajevo and 3-0 with Spartak Trnava.

And the Oltenians want to extend this series on Sunday evening, from 6:30 pm, when “Ion Oblemenco” comes Petrol Ploiești, in the seventh round. However, the opponent is one of the 5 teams in Superliga that has not lost any game away.

On foreign land, the prahovenii have at the beginning of this season a victory and two equality results.

6. FC Argeș, Fixed Phase Expert

FC Argeș is also one of the surprises of the season start in Superliga, the band from Trivale having 9 points from three victories upon returning on the first stage of Romanian football.

However, the chapter at which the Argesians have impressed in the first stages of the new season is that of the fixed phases, where Bogdan Andone's students can boast of 5 goals out of 9 successes after static moments. Only the Unirea Slobozia has 5 goals from fixed phases.

FC Argeș successful goals from fixed phases this season:

• Stage 2, U Craiova-FC Argeș 3-1, Sadriu, after a free kick;

• Stage 3, CFR Cluj-FC Argeș 0-2, Sadriu, after a corner;

• Stage 4, FC Argeș-FK Csikszereda 3-1, Garutti, after a free kick;

• Stage 6, FC Argeș – Steel 2-0, Matos – penalty, sierra, after a corner

7. UTA, the surprise of the season star, the lowest possession

Another surprise is the UTA at the beginning of this season. The Aradians occupy the third place in the Superliga after 6 matches, with three victories and three draws. Contrary to very good results, UTA is the team that has registered the slightest possession so far, being overcome by Csikszereda, the last one, with a point.

Even so, UTA can boast that, along with FCSB, it is the team that has so far achieved most of the gate (36).

The top of the smallest possessions after the first 6 stages:

Most shotgun on the gate:

• FCSB, UTA – 36

• Quick – 35

• Dinamo – 34

• Lighthouse – 32

The fewest shots on the gate

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Hermannstadt – Lighthouse, the epilogue of the 7th round of Superliga, represents the match that will bring them face to face the teams that have managed, in the first 6 stages, most dribbling. Constans are leaders in this chapter, while the first ranked, Craiova University, is not found in the top 5.

• Lighthouse 62

• Hermannstadt 56

• U Cluj 52

• Quickly 51

• Dinamo, UTA 45

9. U Cluj – Dinamo, Surprise vs Confirmation

U Cluj – Dinamo is the match that will bring face to face the “surprise” player of the season start and the player who confirms after the first 6 rounds.

The surprise is Jovo Lukic, the striker of U Cluj, who has 3 goals, while the confirmation is Cătălin Cîrjan, Dinamo's captain with a goal and two decisive passes (the last 4 points brought from his contribution, with Metaloglobus, a goal with UTA).

Also regarding the match U Cluj – Dinamo, it must be remembered that Ioan Ovidiu Sabău evolved as a player in the T -shirt of the dynamists for two seasons (1988/1989, 1989/1990), being part of an exceptional generation coached by Mircea Lucescu, a generation that won the title in 1989/1990 Cup Cup.

10. Oblemenco again?

FANI CRAIOVA / PHOTO: Facebook

Craiova – Petrol, the match on Sunday evening, will represent a new moment when the Oltenian fans will come to “Ion Oblemenco”, to encourage Mirel Rădoi's team. The emulation is increasing around the white-blue band, especially after the extremely important success in Conference League. Until now, at the beginning of the new season, in the 5 matches played at home, each time in Bănie there were over 10,000 fans.

In a top of the average spectators, after the first 6 matches, Craiova is on three, with 11,271 fans, being exceeded by Rapid (16,898) and Dinamo (13,642).

Spectators Craiova in Superliga:

Craiova spectators in Conference League:

2The matches of the current season had over 20,000 spectators: the 6th, Rapid-FCSB 2-2, 26,871 spectators and the 4th, Dinamo-FCSB 4-3, 23,215 spectators;

The following statistics were written before CFR Cluj was to lose shame with Hacken, score 2-7, and Dan Petrescu resign from the team and would normally have to be deleted. However, we decided to present without changes in the lines below, as it reflects the results of the technician's start.

11. Dan Petrescu, poorly started “on repeat”

The current season is the 11th that Dan Petrescu starts in the first stage and the second time, after five games, he only takes five points. The precedent was recorded 21 years ago, in 2004/2005, at the Student Sport. Then, the band from Regie lost the sixth match, even in Galați, 0-1 in front of the steel led by Sorin Cîrțu.

The results of Dan Petrescu in the first five games of the seasons of superliges that he started from the inaugural round:

• 04/05, sport – 5 points in the first 5 games (5 points in the first 6 games);

• 05/06, sport – 9 points (9 p);

• 07/08, Unirea Urziceni – 10 points (13 p);

• 08/09, Unirea Urziceni – 12 points (15 p);

• 09/10, Unirea Urziceni – 10 points (13 p);

• 17/18, CFR Cluj – 13 p (16 p);

• 19/20, CFR Cluj – 13 p (14 p);

• 20/21, CFR Cluj – 11 p (12 p);

• 22/23, CFR Cluj – 9 p (9 p);

• 24/25, CFR Cluj – 7 p (10 p);

• 25/26, CFR Cluj – 5 p.

August 11, 2007, Steel – Unirea Urziceni 3-2 was the last defeat suffered by Dan Petrescu in the duels with the Galati group from all competitions. There followed a draw and six consecutive victories.

GSP Infography Stage #7 of Superliga

GSP Infography Stage #7 of Superliga