Universitatea Craiova 3-1 İstanbul Başakşehir: result and report

Europa Conference League · Thursday 28 August 2025

Result

Universitatea Craiova 3-1 İstanbul Başakşehir

Europa Conference League · Thursday 28 August 2025, 17:30 UTC · half-time 2-1

Universitatea Craiova · İstanbul Başakşehir · Europa Conference League predictions

Universitatea Craiova 3-1 İstanbul Başakşehir: match report

Universitatea Craiova defeated İstanbul Başakşehir 3-1 in the Europa Conference League on Thursday 28 August 2025. The half-time score was 2-1.

Davie Selke opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Universitatea Craiova's goals came from Alexandru Cicâldău (9'), Ștefan Baiaram (27') and Steven Nsimba (81'). İstanbul Başakşehir scored through Davie Selke (7').

Discipline: Universitatea Craiova received 3 yellow cards; İstanbul Başakşehir received 5 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Universitatea Craiova were 18th on 9 points from 5 and İstanbul Başakşehir 13th on 10 points from 5. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa Conference League season and is kept for reference.

Universitatea Craiova lined up in a 3-5-2 and İstanbul Başakşehir in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Alexandru Cicâldău of Universitatea Craiova (7.8), ahead of Nicușor Bancu (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Universitatea Craiova win, 0 draws and 0 for İstanbul Başakşehir.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 7'Goal · Davie Selkeİstanbul Başakşehir · 0-1
  • 9'Goal · Alexandru CicâldăuUniversitatea Craiova · 1-1
  • 20'Yellow card · Tudor BăluțăUniversitatea Craiova
  • 27'Goal · Ștefan BaiaramUniversitatea Craiova · 2-1
  • 47'Yellow card · Deniz Türüçİstanbul Başakşehir
  • 54'Yellow card · Juraj BadeljUniversitatea Craiova
  • 54'Yellow card · Davie Selkeİstanbul Başakşehir
  • 54'Yellow card · Eldor Shomurodovİstanbul Başakşehir
  • 63'Yellow card · Nicușor BancuUniversitatea Craiova
  • 80'Second yellow · Christopher Operiİstanbul Başakşehir
  • 80'Yellow card · Christopher Operiİstanbul Başakşehir
  • 81'Goal · Steven NsimbaUniversitatea Craiova · 3-1
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Umut Güneşİstanbul Başakşehir

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Universitatea Craiova 1, draws 0, İstanbul Başakşehir 0.

Team news

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Universitatea Craiova line-up (3-5-2)

Pavlo Isenko, Oleksandr Romanchuk, Vladimir Screciu, Juraj Badelj, Carlos Mora, Samuel Teles, Tudor Băluță, Alexandru Cicâldău, Nicușor Bancu, Assad Al-Hamlawi, Ștefan Baiaram

İstanbul Başakşehir line-up (4-2-3-1)

Volkan Babacan, Festy Ebosele, Ousseynou Ba, Jerome Opoku, Christopher Operi, Onur Ergün, Berat Özdemir, Eldor Shomurodov, Miguel Crespo, Ivan Brnic, Davie Selke