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The Bucharest team FCSB defeated the team on Sunday evening, at home, score 4-3, after extra time FC Botoșani and qualified for the Conference League play-off final.
The Moldovans opened the scoring at the stadium The starin the 15th minute, when Mailat was released by Mitrov and executed Târnovanu. After only five minutes Joao Paulo recovered a ball and sent from the edge of the box to equalize. Ongenda tried to score directly from the corner, in the 31st minute, and at halftime the score was equal, 1-1. The Bucharesters were more incisive in the first part of the second half, but the visitors’ goalkeeper, Anestis, took almost everything out, appearing in a one-on-one situation with Toma (min. 47) and Cisotti (min. 52). The goal that gave the hosts the lead came in the 53rd minute, when Dawa scored with a header from a corner kick by Octavian Popescu. Anestis also intervened in the 56th minute, on Olaru’s shot, and in the 59th minute, on Octavian Popescu’s free kick, because the referee Istvan Kovacs to dictate penalties for FCSBafter the VAR check of a handball committed by Mailat.
Florin Tănase surely converted, in the 69th minute, increasing the advantage of the hosts. The referee gave another penalty for a handball by Radunovic, and Mailat scored from the penalty spot in the 77th minute. However, Croitoru’s team managed to equalize in the 90th+4th minute, through Kovtalyuk, who had just entered, and the score of the first 90 minutes was 3-3. The Bucharesters dominated extra time and Anestis scored for Toma in the 104th minute. Octavian Popescu scored the qualification goal in the 107th minute, after a superb action, and FCSB, victorious with 4-3, qualified for the Conference League play-off final, where they will face Dinamo Bucharest.
FCSB: Târnovanu – V. Crețu, Dawa, M. Popescu, Radunovic – Fl. Tănase (Ofri Arad 112), Joao Paulo (Baba Alhassan 81), Olaru (Lixandru 80) – Miculescu (Oct. Popescu 46), A. Stoian (M. Toma 46), Cisotti (Mamadou Thiam 90+1). COACH: Marius Baciu
FC BOTOȘANI: Anestis – Adams Friday (Kovtalyuk 89), Miron, Pape Diaw (Șigănașu 46), R. Creț – E. Papa (Pănoiu 74), Charles Petro – Mitrov (Bodisteanu 46; G. David 106), Ongenda, Mailat (Enzo Lopez 86) – Dumiter. COACH: Marius Croitoru
Yellow cards: Olaru 28, Oct. Popescu 60, M. Toma 73, Baba Alhassan 103 / Pope 6, Dumiter 28, Miron 45+2, Charles Petro 59
Referees: Istvan Kovacs – Mihai Marica, Ferencz Tunyogi
VAR referees: Cătălin Popa – Rareș Vidican
