LIVE. Unirea Slobozia – Universitatea Craiova, the first match at night on “May 1”

It will be the first match in history at Slobozia at night. The hosts have been preparing all week for this moment and the wait is finally over.

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UPDATE 18:00 – The lawn is in excellent condition

Two hours before the start of the game, the lawn at the “1 Mai” stadium is in excellent condition.

UPDATE 12:00 – The people of Ialomi are making great efforts to clear the lawn of snow

About 8 hours before the starting whistle, the people of Ialomi make great efforts to remove the snow from the lawn that will host the first night match in the history of Slobozia.

Unirea Slobozia – University of Craiova, LIVE at 20:00

Unirea Slobozia – University of Craiova, probable teams

Unirea Slobozia (4-2-3-1): Rusu – Dorobanțu, I. Dinu, Orozco, Şerbănica – Al. Albu, T. Lungu – C. Bărbut, Carnat, Ponde – Dahan
Coach: Claudiu Niculescu

University of Craiova (3-5-2): L. Popescu – Screciu, A. Rus, Mogoș – Mora, D. Matei, T. Băluță, Mekvabishvili, N. Bancu – Baiaram, Al Hamlawi
Coach: Filipe Coelho

Stadium: “May 1” (Slobozia)
Referee: Roman George Catalin (Timişoara – Timiş)
A1: Filip Alexandru (Constanța – Constanța)
A2: Ghiciulescu Raul Constantin (Lugoj – Timiş)
VAR referee: Dima Iulian (Bucharest – Bucharest)
Referee AVAR: Slabu Stelian (Brasov – Brasov)
R1: Avram Robert (Pitesti – Argeş)
R2: ( – )
Obs. referees: Ionita Andrei (Bucharest – Bucharest)

Slobozia – Craiova, the first night match on “May 1”

Unirea Slobozia will play today the first match in history at night, at home, against the University of Craiova. On Wednesday, the operation of mounting the four pillars was completed, and the hosts also took precautionary measures, so that everything would be in order in the dispute against the Superliga leader.

At the beginning of 2026, Slobozia returned to the “1 Mai” stadium, but played the matches against UTA Arad, Hermannstadt and Farul at lunchtime, so the night installation was not needed.

Slobozia will play with Craiova on Sunday evening, from 8:00 p.m., and four days before this game, the officials from Ialomi have finished installing the four night posts. If the situation had not been resolved in time, the match would have been played in Clinceni, where Slobozia played in the first part of the season.

Before the game, Unirea is in 14th place in the Superliga, penultimate, with 24 points after 27 stages. In the last game, the team coached by Claudiu Niculescu lost at the limit on Dinamo's field, score 0-1.

The people of Ialomi have five defeats and only one victory in 2026. And the bad news does not end here as they also lost until the end of the season Jayson Papeau (29 years old), the best player, seriously injured in the match with Dinamo.

On the other hand, Craiova is the leader, with 53 points. Olteni have four wins, a draw and a failure in 2026. In the last stage they beat the champion FCSB, score 1-0, goal Al Hamlawi.

Olten will be able to rely again on two basic pieces in the attack. Steven Nsimba (29 years old) returns from injury, while Ștefan Baiaram (23 years old) returns to the field after a two-stage suspension, due to the incidents at the end of the derby with Dinamo.

In the round, Craiova prevailed over “Ion Oblemenco”, score 3-1.

VIDEO | Filipe Coelho, statements before Unirea Slobozia – University of Craiova

The Portuguese coach of Olten announced that he will not be able to rely on Alex Cicâldău (28 years old) for the match at the “1 Mai” Stadium in Slobozia. Also, Screciu and Assad Al Hamlawi are still an uncertainty.

“We know that Cicâldău is not available. He will not play with Unirea Slobozia, he is with the medical department. He won't be able to play. Regarding Assad and Screciu I don't know, we will see near the matches. We still have training

We will have a tough game against a team that has a new coach. They won the last match at home against Farul. We expect a difficult match. We will try to give everything we have to get the three points. We have prepared well this week and we are going to get the points. The players know the importance of this game.

I saw the match with Dinamo, it's part of the job. I have seen their last 5 matches. The last two are more representative, the ones with the new coach. We are ready. They have interesting players, but we are playing against a team, not individuals.

The focus must be on our team. We have to be focused, we can't relax”, said Filipe Coelho at the press conference prior to the match with Unirea Slobozia

Unirea Slobozia – University of Craiova | Key data about the match, filtered by GSP statistician Liviu Manolache

• The Ialomi team won the previous match played at home in the championship, 2-1 against Farul, and stopped a negative streak at home consisting of seven defeats, five of which were at the limit.

• February 1, 2026, Farul – Universitatea Craiova 4-1 was the only game lost by Olteni in the Super League with Filipe Coelho on the bench, otherwise seven wins and three draws.

• 11 of the 26 goals scored by Unirea in the current edition were scored after fixed phases.

• The players transferred from Craiova in the summer of 2025 scored 31 goals, 11 assists and two penalties, as they made at least one offensive contribution in each of the 23 championship matches in which the group from Banie scored.

• Unirea Slobozia has collected 12 games without a goal scored and only four without a goal conceded.

• The fewest shots were fired on the Olten goal area, only 80 (Unirea Slobozia – 147).

• If it will be used, Daniel Şerbănica will play the 100th match on the first stage.

• The two teams met in the main domestic competition three times and each time the group from Bănie prevailed.

• The most recent direct Super League match: October 18, 2025, Universitatea Craiova-Unirea Slobozia 3-1 (Ștefan Baiaram, Anzor Mekvabishvili, Carlos Mora / Jayson Papeau).