The 3 revelation players from this Superliga season » Two were relegated in the summer, another was kicked out by the former team

Alin Roman arrived at UTA in the summer, after being relegated to Poli Iasi at the end of last season. A similar route was followed by Sebastian Mailat, who failed with Sepsis, but found himself in Botoșani.

And Jovo Lukic was removed from Craiova University, signed with U Cluj and became the top scorer of the championship, without scoring from the penalty.

Alin Roman, the best passer in the Superliga

Alin Roman is the second player in the number of decisive contributions in the current season, after Florin Tănase. The player from UTA has 8 assists and 5 goals scored.

He contributed directly to 13 of the 26 goals scored by UTA. With 8 assists in 20 games played, he is in first place in the ranking of decisive passers.

Roman's contributions this season:

• Stage 1: 3-3 with Universitatea Craiova – a goal and an assist – 1 extra point for his team

• Stage 3: 1-0 with Hermannstadt – goal – 2 extra points for his team

• Stage 4: 2-1 with Petrolul – one goal – 2 points

• Stage 5: 2-1 with Farul – an assist – 2 points

• Stage 6: 1-1 with Dinamo – one assist – 1 point

• Stage 9: 3-3 with Argeș – one assist – 1 point

• Stage 12: 1-2 with Botoșani – an assist

• Stage 15: 2-0 with Metaloglobus – an assist

• Stage 16: 2-1 with Craiova University – one assist – 2 points

• Stage 19: 1-0 with Petrolul – one goal – 2 points

• Stage 21: 2-0 with Dinamo – a goal and an assist – 2 points

In total, Alin Roman brought 15 more points to the Arad team through his decisive contributions to the goals in the first 21 stages.

Lukic reinvented himself at U Cluj. Without him, Transylvania was in 11th place

Another revelation of the current season is the Bosnian Jovo Lukic. Taken by U Cluj in the summer, after being kicked out by Craiova, the striker has scored 11 times this season and is in first place in the goalscoring rankings, alongside Alexandru Dobre.

Lukic is the sole leader in goals from action. None of the 11 goals scored came from the static phase.

The attacker also has an assist this season, thus managing to contribute to 12 goals in the Super League out of the 26 scored by U Cluj.

Lukic's contributions this season:

• Stage 1: 4-1 with Metaloglobus – 2 goals

• Stage 5: 1-1 with Petrolul – 1 goal – 1 extra point to his team

• Stage 11: 2-2 with CFR Cluj – 1 goal – 1 point

• Stage 14: 2-1 with Steel – 2 goals – 3 extra points

• Stage 16: 3-1 with Metaloglobus – 1 assist

• Stage 17: 2-0 with UTA – 1 goal

• Round 19: 3-0 Hermannstadt – 3 goals – 2 extra points for U

• Stage 21: 1-0 with Farul – 1 goal – 2 points

Transylvania are 7th and have 33 points in the Superliga. Without Lukic's goals, U Cluj would have been 9 points down and would have been in 11th place.

Jovo Lukic, in action for U Cluj/ photo Imago Images

Sebastian Mailat, number 1 in Botoșani. He added 9 points to the Moldovan team

Sebastian Mailat is also on the list of revelations. The 28-year-old player returned to Botoșani in the summer and helped the Moldovans finish the year in a surprising 3rd place.

Mailat is the player with the most offensive contributions at Botoșani. He has 8 goals scored and 3 assists. He collected 1371 minutes in 20 matches, 5 of which were as a full-time player.

Mailat's contributions this season:

• Stage 1: 1-1 with Farul – 1 goal – 1 extra point for FC Botoșani

• Stage 3: 4-0 with Slobozia – 1 goal and 1 assist

• Stage 5: 3-1 with FC Argeș – 1 goal

• Stage 6: 3-3 with CFR Cluj – 1 goal – 1 point

• Stage 7: 3-1 with Csikszereda – 1 assist

• Stage 9: 1-0 with Steel – 1 goal – 2 points

• Stage 10: 3-1 with FCSB – 1 assist

• Stage 12: 1-2 with UTA – 1 goal – 2 points

• Stage 17: 1-1 with Dinamo – 1 goal – 1 point

• Stage 18: 1-0 with Slobozia – 1 goal – 2 points

Without Mailat's decisive contributions, FC Botoșani would have been 9 points down in the Superliga standings.

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