CFR Cluj 3-3 Botosani — Result, Statistics & Match Review — Romania - 1st Division, 17 Aug 2025

📅17/08/2025 · 🕒18:30 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 1-0 2nd Score 1-1
MODEL iddaakolik · Our Predictions
Probability per market · Global + League + Team blend
⏱ Odds and predictions are pre-match — updates freeze from ~20 minutes before kick-off.
Match Result
Home
55%
1.76
Draw
25%
3.35
Away
20%
4.15
Under/Over 2.5
Under 2.5
52%
1.62
Over 2.5
48%
2.18
Both Teams to Score
Yes
52%
2.06
No
48%
1.68
Total Goals
0-1 Goal
31%
2-3 Goals
38%
4-5 Goals
23%
6+ Goals
8%
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
29%
1/2
5%
1/X
5%
X/1
17%
X/2
7%
X/X
12%
2/1
9%
2/2
9%
2/X
7%
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
55%
Home Win
53%
+2.0pp
25%
Draw
26%
-1.7pp
21%
Away Win
21%
-0.2pp
52%
Under 2.5
58%
-6.2pp
48%
Over 2.5
42%
+6.2pp
52%
BTTS Yes
44%
+7.3pp
48%
BTTS No
56%
-7.3pp
gold — our model green — our served pick grey — EU market (margin removed: each group sums to 100%)
Edge (pp): green = we see more probability than the market · gold = essentially even (±0.5pp) · red = we see less. The Decision above outranks any single row: the engine backs well-supported edges, not merely big ones.
PREVIEW Match Preview Engine
iddaakolik Team Elo · Form · Goals signals
HOME CFR Cluj EU Bookmakers 57%
Head to Head
AWAY Botosani EU Bookmakers 24%
+6% / +13% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations -3% / -12%
1.58/0.69 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 0.80/1.17
+20% / +26% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) -13% / -4%
51% Ball Possession 49%
12 Total Shots 10
5 Shots on Target 4
5 Corners 4
202 · 68% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 380 · 81%
25.6 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 15.4
21.0 Crosses 14.9
1.6 Yellow Cards 2.3
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME CFR Cluj
2W-2D-2L
AWAY Botosani
1.33 Avg Goals (FT) 0.83
2.07 xG 1.01
52% Ball Possession 48%
13 Total Shots 11
6 Shots on Target 3
6 Corners 4
260 Passes 303
74% Pass Accuracy 76%
28 Box Touches 21
22 Crosses 20
2 Yellow Cards 3
19.01.2025 Botosani Botosani 1-1 HT 0-1 CFR Cluj CFR Cluj ROM
25.08.2024 CFR Cluj CFR Cluj 3-0 HT 0-0 Botosani Botosani ROM
21.01.2024 Botosani Botosani 1-0 HT 0-0 CFR Cluj CFR Cluj ROM
26.08.2023 CFR Cluj CFR Cluj 3-1 HT 2-0 Botosani Botosani ROM
11.12.2022 Botosani Botosani 1-1 HT 0-1 CFR Cluj CFR Cluj ROM
14.08.2022 CFR Cluj CFR Cluj 0-1 HT 0-1 Botosani Botosani ROM
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME CFR Cluj
3-3
AWAY Botosani
3.18 xG 0.79
53% Ball Possession 47%
30 Total Shots 8
15 Shots on Target 3
12 Corners 1
272 Passes 239
75% Pass Accuracy 70%
44 Box Touches 12
31 Crosses 8
2 Yellow Cards 3
POST-MATCH CFR Cluj vs Botosani
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

CFR Cluj and Botosani couldn't be separated, finishing 3-3. It was 2-1 at half-time, meaning the result turned around in the second half. 6 goals made it one of the day's more open games.

By our pre-match numbers this was an upset: we had CFR Cluj at 55% and the game still went the other way. Single results are noisy — probabilities earn their keep across thousands of matches, not one.

Over 2.5 goals sat near a coin-flip at 48% and both teams to score was close to even at 52%.

On the day, CFR Cluj had 53% of the ball to Botosani's 47%, shots finished 30-8, expected goals 3.18 to 0.79.

Coming into the game, across their last 6 meetings in our records, honours were even at 2 apiece, 2 drawn. Those games averaged 1.33 goals for CFR Cluj and 0.83 for Botosani.

What was the final score of CFR Cluj vs Botosani?

CFR Cluj 3-3 Botosani in the Romania - 1st Division on 17/08/2025. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for CFR Cluj vs Botosani?

Before kick-off our model rated a CFR Cluj win the most likely single outcome at about 55%, with the full match-result split CFR Cluj 55%, draw 25%, Botosani 21%. The final score 3-3 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on BTTS Yes — while Match Result (CFR Cluj), Under 2.5 went the other way.

✗ Match Result (CFR Cluj) ✗ Under 2.5 ✓ BTTS Yes
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