Zimbru secured a comprehensive 4-0 victory over Belți in the Super Liga's Regular Season round nine on Saturday. The second-placed visitors ran away with the contest at their home ground, extending their lead in the table while Belți's struggles continued. It was a day where the quality gap between the sides became glaringly obvious from the opening exchanges.
Zimbru struck first through A. Bonnah in the thirty-eighth minute, catching Belți off guard. The home side's defence looked fragile, and by then it was clear the visitors had come to dominate. A. Betivu doubled the advantage just before the interval with a well-taken goal in the forty-fifth minute plus three, leaving Belți trailing by two goals at the break.
The second half opened with Belți making changes, bringing on P. Dias and removing Marcello in the fifty-ninth minute. The visitors wasted little time in resuming their attack, with Betivu finding the net again in the seventy-fourth minute to complete his hat-trick. T. Butucel received a yellow card as Belți's frustration mounted.
Betivu added his fourth goal in the ninetieth minute, a cruel blow for Belți who had already made three substitutions by that point. Another goal arrived in stoppage time, though the scorer remained unrecorded in the available data. Zimbru's attack refused to go away, testing Belți's resolve until the final whistle.
The result leaves Belți rooted to eighth place with five points from ten games, one win and two draws. Zimbru sit second on twenty points, six wins and two losses. The gap between them is substantial, and Belți's recent form offers little comfort — they have not won since their opening day, losing six of their last seven matches.