Divizia A - Poli Iasi v Steaua Bucharest
24 February 2008
Preview By Tipster Mariusrec (Romania)
The winner of this edition of Liga I will have a spot in the UEFA Champions League group stage.The second team of Liga I will have a Champions League qualification spot.The battle is very tight as most teams aim to get in the UEFA Champions League for the money.
For now, CFR are leaders and in the first part of the season they have displayed some quality soccer.This is mostly due to the different type of mentality they have, and the general mood between the players is a very good one.On the second place on the tables, at this point, is Rapid Bucharest, and on 3rd and 4th with equal amount of points, is Unirea Urziceni and Steaua Bucharest.
Steaua is 8 points away from 1st spot and only 3 points away from 2nd spot.At the end of this season , they hope to win the title, although it will be hard.As a second option they said they will be happy with second place and the chance to qualify to the Champions League group stage.To complete the objective, Steaua has made a few transfers during this winter break.Mendoza and Pepe Morena are said to debut in this match, they should make a great performance if they want to stay at Steaua.During the last year Steaua had a lot of foreign players, but almost everyone was kicked out and offended by the Steaua staff.I believe that these two will have a good performance in their first Liga I match.
Also good new for Steaua is the recovery of Mihaita Plesan.A player that can turn out to be very handy for any team, when he is out there doing this thing in the middle of the field.Along with Plesan, another important player in fit to play : Mirel Radoi.Very influential player in midfield.All in all, i have to say Steaua dosen't have any squad problems.
On the other side Poli Iasi, will be missing a few players Mijin, Kalai, Tincu and Naidin, players that more or less, have an importance in Poli Iasi's usual starting 11.
For this match the Poli Iasi stadium will be full, aprox. all 6000 already sold.But Steaua's players are used to the fact that everywhere they play, the stadiums are packed.At least in the away matches from Liga I.
With Steaua's ambitions for this season, the need for points and the fact that the the couch has all the players available and fir to play, i see a happy start for the Bucharest team, after the winter break.
I took a 1.65 odd that VC Bet offers.Usually this bookmaker dosen't offer that great odd on Liga I, but this time they done it, and i looked at what others are offering, and when i saw that Bet-at-home has just 1.45 i was stunned.The right odd bookmaker should offer (the right odd for them) would be 1.50, so the 1.65 odd is quite good.
In the first match between the two teams this season(but that was a totally different situation then).Poli Iasi is a hard team to play against but Steaua can take all 3 points and i'm with them here.Good luck.
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