Argeș Pitești will be looking to improve on their last outing here following a 2-1 Liga I loss in their previous game against Oţelul Galaţi.

In that match, Argeș Pitești had 35% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 4 on target. The scorer for Argeș Pitești was Leard Sadriu (87′). On the other side, Oţelul Galaţi had 23 attempts on goal with 11 on target. Nuno (55′) and Paulinho (60′) scored for Oţelul Galaţi.

In their prior six fixtures, Argeș Pitești have hit the back of the net a total of 7 times, an average number of goals scored per match equal to 1.17.

Heading into this fixture, Argeș Pitești are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches at home.

Steaua Bucharest will go into this game after a 2-1 Liga I win with the downing of Rapid Bucharest in their last match.

In that game, Steaua Bucharest managed 50% possession and 12 shots on goal with 4 on target. For Steaua Bucharest, the goalscorers were Darius Olaru (24′) and Florin Tănase (75′). Rapid Bucureşti got 9 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Alex Dobre (86′) scored for Rapid Bucharest.

In the course of their six most recent matches, Elias Charalambous’s Steaua Bucharest have fired home 10 times thus earning them the goals per game average of 1.67.

 Head to head

An examination of their past head to head meetings dating back to 03/03/2022 tells us that Argeș Pitești have won 2 of these games & Steaua Bucharest 4, with the number of drawn games being 0.

A combined total of 20 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 8 from Argeș and 12 belonging to Steliștii. That is an average goals per game value of 3.33.

The previous league contest between these sides was Liga I match day 7 on 24/08/2025 when it finished Steaua Bucharest 0-2 Argeș Pitești.

In that match, Steaua Bucharest managed 71% possession and 17 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target. The scorer was Mihai Popescu (88′ Own goal).

On the other side, Argeș Pitești got 12 shots at goal with 3 on target. Adel Bettaieb (72′) was the scorer.

 Team News: Argeș Pitești

We think that Argeș Pitești should kick off with a 4-3-3 formation this time, beginning the first half with David Lazar, Dorinel Oancea, G. Gomes Garutti, Mario Tudose, Florin Borta, Rober Sierra, Vadim Rata, Jakov Blagaic, Robert Moldoveanu, Ricardo Matos and Adel Bettaieb.

 Team News: Steaua Bucharest

We are inclined to think that Steliștii will likely elect for a 4-3-3 system, starting Stefan Tarnovanu, Alexandru Pantea, Joyskim Dawa, Mihai Lixandru, Risto Radunovic, Darius Olaru, Vlad Chiriches, Florin Tanase, David Miculescu, Daniel Birligea and Mihai Toma.