Zimbru beat Milsami Orhei 4-2 in the Super Liga regular season on Saturday. The home side took three points from an eighteenth-round fixture that looked tighter on paper than the scoreline suggests. Milsami finished with ten men after R. Ginsari was sent off in stoppage time.
And here's the thing — the opening goal came early enough to give the visitors something to chase from the start. C. Gonta put Zimbru ahead after six minutes, and the visitors should have responded. To be fair, they kept the ball better, but Zimbru's first-half pressure meant Milsami rarely looked dangerous.
The yellow cards started piling up around the quarter-hour mark and never really stopped. By then the game had settled into a rhythm where Zimbru pinned Milsami back and the visitors could only respond. Another booking came at twenty-two, then twenty-five, and the pattern was set for the rest of the half.
P. Odubia restored Zimbru's lead in the sixty-third minute, and Jonathas added a third two minutes later. Milsami pulled one back through A. Betivu, but A. Sejdija quickly restored the two-goal cushion. Caio Dantas made it four at the death, though Ginsari's red card had already robbed the visitors of any real hope.
The statistics tell a story that doesn't quite match the result. Milsami enjoyed 56 per cent possession and registered 141 attacks, yet Zimbru's eight shots on target produced four goals. Shots accuracy was 67 per cent for the hosts compared with 75 per cent for the visitors — but numbers don't always reflect what happens inside the penalty area.
What matters now is where the result leaves both sides. Zimbru sit second with twenty points from ten games, while Milsami remain sixth on eleven. The gap between them is nine points, and this result means the visitors will have to work harder to close it.