Article by Alexandru Barbu – Published Saturday, November 16, 2024, 00:21 / Updated Saturday, November 16, 2024 01:09
10 “hot” conclusions about Romania – Kosovo, the penultimate match in group C2 of the League of Nations. Most likely, Romania will win the game 3-0 on the green table.
1. Like the great teams of all time, Romania lines up the same first “11” match after match, the TV analyst knows it, the TikTokers and the haters know it too.
2. Including the kibbutz, who notice that Drăguș has no advantage over Bîrligea, he hasn’t scored in Trabzonspor for 4 months, but he’s still improving from the first minute. In the end, what do we call an experiment: the tenure of a footballer who only plays for the national team or the use of the fittest striker, currently without achievements under the tricolor?
3. And Drăguș, also moved to the left side, did not matter until the 71st minute, when he received a “yellow”. Besides, all our offensive men were weak, led by Dennis Man. However, Bîrligea remained on the bench. Bizarre. Inexplicable, if we replay Alibec’s embarrassing pass in overtime.
4. With Rrahmani from Napoli, Zhegrova from Lille or Muriqi from Mallorca, Kosovo put us on the ropes in the first half, which we lost on points, despite the “transversal” rocked by Stanciu.
5. “At the Euros, we had Niţă, extraordinary. We have to, little by little, move to another stage, to control the game, if we want to face the great teams of the world”, Lucescu prefaced the game with Kosovo. Sounds good on paper. Except that possession is not our #1 weapon, Drăgușin and Burcă are not companions with the ball, Mihăilă prefers the counterattack. And Nita also saved us.
6. No doubt: Damac’s 37-year-old goalkeeper, the best Romanian on the field.
photo: Ionuț Iordache (GSP)
7. Fortunately, Mircea Lucescu is bigger than Franco Foda and at halftime he prepared a national team that was able to balance. That’s how I pulled off a lucky draw.
8. Kosovo was superior to us, maybe they deserved to win. If Romania marched in the first 4 stages of the League of Nations, on Friday night they clinched promotion to League B with a Black Friday performance: they delivered less than the goal normally requires.
9. The Romanian national team has just reached the “eights” of Euro 2024, now they have won a group of the League of Nations. But the ultras who once bore the bad results, the humiliations invented new enemies: they curse the Kosovar anthem, the Federation, he swears at Mircea Lucescu. Proof that civilization is not conditional on performance. Nor the nakedness.
10. SHAMEFUL attitude of the Kosovars at the end! They provoked, begged for a victory at the “green table”, because that was the only way they could overtake us in the ranking. Until we recognize the state of Kosovo, we recognize a team of cheaters.
