FC Arges – CFR Clujthe duel that opens the last stage of the play-off round, is played today, from 20:30. The match from Mioveni is liveTEXT on GSP.ro and live on Digi Sport 1 and Prima Sport 1.
Match with implications on “Orășenescul” from Mioveni, between two of the candidates for a place in Europe. FC Argeș and CFR Cluj are neighbors in the standings, separated by one point and coming after several stages without a win.
It's practically the last chance for the “railwaymen” to re-enter the fight for the title. CFR lost ground in front of the first two ranked and only a success on the ground of the newly promoted team keeps them in the calculations.
Argeș cannot rely on winger Claudiu Micovschi, the footballer who left injured last stage, with Rapid, after only a few minutes. Bogdan Andone announced in Thursday's conference that, most likely, it will not evolve at all until the end of the season.
And the Kosovar Sadriu, a basic piece of the Pitesti team, is unavailable for tonight's clash, the stopper suffering a sprain.
FC Argeș – CFR Cluj, live from 20:30
FC Argeș – CFR Cluj, starting teams:
FC Arges: Cable car – Oancea, Tudose, Garutti, Briceag – Pîrvu, Rață, Seto, Blagaic – R. Moldoveanu, Brobbey
reserves: Straton, Crăciun, Tofan, Borța, Sierra, Rădescu, Bettaieb, Idowu, Matos, F. Manole, B. Dinu, A. Marin
Coach: Bogdan Andone
Absent: Micovschi, Sadriu (injured), Emmers (not recovered)
CFR Cluj: M. Popa – Braun, Sinyan, Huja, Camora – Djokovic, T. Keita – Cordea, Korenica, Biliboc – Aliev
Reserves: Valceanu, Gal, Gyorgy, Abeid, M. Ilie, Perianu, Păun, Deac. Daughter, Gligor, Zahovic
Coach: Daniel Pancu
Stadium: Townspeople, Mioveni
Referee: Istvan Kovacs (Carei – Satu Mare) / A1: Ferencz Tunyogi (Zalău – Sălaj) / A2: Ioan Alexandru Corb (Satu Mare) / VAR Referee: Iulian Dima (Bucharest) / Referee AVAR: Lucian Rusandu (Sfântu Gheorghe – Covasna) / R1: Gabriel Mihuleac (Iasi) / Referees Observer: Andrei Ionita (Bucharest)
Real-time play-off standings
Bogdan Andone: “If we were more attentive, we could have a few more points”
This is how Bogdan Andone, the “purple eagles” technician, prefaced the game:
“Little by little, we are approaching the end of the round in the play-offs. We have played almost all the teams, I think equally.
If we had maybe a little chance and maybe more attention and concentration, we could have a few more points. We will have to approach the match very seriously, very carefully, because it is an important game. If we manage to win, maybe depending on the results of the stage, we will be able to reach 3rd place.
CFR is an extremely experienced team, an extremely strong team from a physical point of view, pragmatic, who knows how to manage the moments of the game well, knows how to play for the result.
(…) We must try to create more goal situations, to score more goals so that we can win the games”, Bogdan Andone pointed out, according to arges-sport.ro, in the press conference before the game.
It's sure to be an incredibly difficult game. It's an experienced team with very good players. We have to be attentive and focused to the end to make a good result at home.
– Guilherme Garutti, FC Argeș defender, according to the quoted source
Daniel Pancu does not give up the title: “I told the players too, I still believe!”
Although CFR didn't have an amazing play-off round, Daniel Pancu still hasn't lost hope about winning the title:
“I talked to the players all week about this, that it is still possible in terms of the fight for the titlebecause if I were to talk about third or fourth place, we could finish in sixth place, which is still possible, because there is balance, there are details in the games, there are moments of form, moments of inspiration or lack of inspiration from the coaches.
I told you that I still believe in winning the title.
(…) We must try to score a goal, first of all, because in the last two matches the score is 5-0 for them. FC Argeş is a team that beat us without any right of appeal. It is one of the two teams that, since my arrival here, we have not managed to beat.
(…) It's a team that concedes goals very hard. It is a very well-organized team, with a coach who has already been there for almost two years, and this is my disadvantage when I meet teams with coaches who have experience on the bench. FC Argeş has its own style, it is not by chance that it is here”, said Pancu, in the conference.
“A decisive game awaits us. I may be the only madman in the club thinking about the title, it's not a done deal. I want us to have a series of very good results again. I talked to the players all week about the title, there is balance in the play-offs”, added Pancu, according to Ziua de Cluj.
FC Arges – CFR Cluj | Key data about the match, filtered by GSP statistician Liviu Manolache:
– Eight wins, four draws and five losses it is the record recorded by the Argesians in the current championship at home.
– The people of Cluj won six of the 17 trips in the current editionand five other times they ended in a tie.
– Transylvania scored at least one goal in 15 of the previous 16 stages.
–17 games without conceding a goal in the current edition, the citizens of Pište collected the most of all the competitors.
– The two teams have met in the main domestic competition 32 times, nine times Pitesti prevailed, 18 times Transylvania won, and five other games ended in a draw.
– Records with FC Argeș host: 16 games – 8 victories FC Argeș – 1 draw – 7 successes CFR Cluj.
– The first match took place on October 26, 1969, FC Argeş-CFR Cluj 3-0 (triple C-tin Radu I), coaches Constantin Teaşcă, respectively Constantin Rădulescu.
– The first success for Cluj: July 1, 1970, CFR Cluj-FC Argeş 2-1.
– The biggest score difference also meant the clearest success for Cluj away on the first stage: May 7, 2022, FC Argeș-CFR Cluj 0-6.
– Pitesti won both matches of the 2025/2026 regular season, 2-0 in Cluj-Napoca and 3-0 at home.
