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FC Botoşani lost to FCSB PHOTO FB Superliga
FCSB will face the Dinamo Bucharest in the playoffs for the Conference League in football, after defeating the FC Botoșani with a score of 4-3 (1-1, 3-3), after extra time, on Sunday evening, at the Stadium The starin the play-out bracket for the continental competition.
FCSB was led 1-0, then had 3-1, but was tied in extremis, winning after extra time. The match marked the debut of coach Marius Baciu at FCSB.
The play-off for the qualification in the Conference League preliminaries will be played on Friday, May 29, at the Arc de Triumf Stadium, from 8:30 p.m.
The boss from FC Botoșani, Valeriu Iftime, blamed his refereeing at the end Istvan Kovacswhich would have scared his players.
“It’s a feeling of disappointment, because we played a good game. Our main assets, the goalkeeper, Ongenda and Mailat, did their job. It was that beautiful goal by Tavi Popescu, but you know that there is at the back… I wouldn’t want to blame Kovacs, but there was a very, very big fear that he could charge us.
This is what Miron told me last night, after the match: “Nea Valer, I’m sorry, but I was afraid to put my foot down, because he was giving 11 meters”. On my word. He said: “Lord, we were all afraid”. They spoke during the break: “Don’t do anything”. That’s why he changed Papa, gave him a yellow in the 5th minute, where you don’t normally give a yellow.
There were some things that seemed far-fetched. And at the 2nd goal, Miron says that Dawa got hold of me, jumped over me. What can I do? I wanted to tell the referee and he told me that if I speak he will give me the second yellow”.
And with Tavi Popescu’s goal, an exceptional goal by the way, they were afraid to stop it. Simply.
That’s no excuse. They beat us. Although, do you know what the total score is with FCSB this year? 10-9 for us at goals marked. It’s a big deal to give FCSB 10 goals in a season. They open with us, and with these teams we score, we score goals. Marius Croitoru’s team, as he configures it now, is about football, possession, building from the goalkeeper. We try football.
Do you know what Croitoru told me last night? “Hey Valer, sorry. I said we were scoring a lot of goals, but I didn’t think we were going to score one more. We did what you want, we scored goals”. I don’t want 0-0, 0-0 is a match for the blind. We want a lot of goals. We still have to build,” said Iftime, according to Gsp.ro.
