Zimbru went top of the Super Liga with a 2-0 victory over Siret in the eleventh round of the regular season. Matteo Amoroso opened the scoring from the penalty spot in the forty-second minute, and R. Rosario added a late second in stoppage time. The hosts have now gone eleven games without a win, while the visitors moved clear at the summit.
It was a tight opening half with two yellow cards before the breakthrough. Siret's defender went off after thirty-five minutes, and Zimbru responded with a booking of their own at forty-one. Then came the moment: Amoroso struck from the spot in the forty-second minute, and the hosts were pinned back for the remainder of the period.
Both sides made changes at the break, with G. Brinzaniuc and A. Bilinschii coming on for their respective teams. Zimbru controlled the tempo, and by then Siret were keeping the score down rather than looking for a reply. Rosario's goal in the ninety-second minute ended any lingering hope, and the visitors kept it at two goals to nothing.
Four yellow cards were shown in the second half alone — Siret picked up two, Zimbru two — and the disciplinary tally suggests a match that grew edgy. Siret saw cards at fifty-one and seventy-seven, while Zimbru's bookings came at forty-one and sixty-two. The referee did not need to produce a red, but the tension was palpable.
The result moves Zimbru out to a sixteen-point gap over their nearest challengers, and they are now twenty-three points from the bottom. Siret sit seventh with seven points from eleven matches, and their run of draws has finally been broken. By then, the table went out of the window in these games, but the points difference matters now.
Siret had drawn four consecutive matches before this defeat, including a 2-2 draw with Milsami Orhei on the first of September. Zimbru's recent form has been sharper — a 2-1 win over Sheriff Tiraspol and a 4-0 demolition of Dacia-Bujcani among their results. To be fair, one mistake ends it, and Siret made theirs at the end when Rosario struck.
