Article by Daniel Grigore – published on Saturday, April 05, 2025 23:50 / Updated Sunday, April 06, 2025 04:38
Ioan Ovidiu Sabău, 57 years old, U Cluj's coach, analyzed defeat with FCSB, 0-1 in stage 3 of the play-off.
Sabău believes that his students went out too late, although the red-blue would have offered them enough opportunities. The university coach spoke about a lack of personality and warned that these matches serve as decisive tests to make the lot for the next season.
Ioan Ovidiu Sabău after FCSB – U Cluj: “You have to have more personality, more courage to play”
“Until the 65-70 minute, FCSB controlled the game. We were quite shy in the first half, we did not have the courage to go to the game, to keep the ball, to have possession even when FCSB allowed us this. I gave them the ball very easily, I gave the opponent's courage.
They started to pass, to be very dynamic. I knew they had quality when they had the ball. I arrived very little in the opponent's box, I finished very little. In the second half, after the 65-70 minute I was what we had to be, especially in the last 10-15 minutes, in which I controlled, I passed.
We could have, in the last actions, at Macalou's shot and the last phase, if he attacks the ball, we could have equal.
But it was too late, and FCSB has experience. In such games you have to have more personality, more courage to playthat nothing happens. This fear, often, cancels you from qualities. Fear of not making mistakes, the opponent puts pressure, some players have probably not played at such a level.
When not everyone is proper, you suffer. You have no quality and game control. I had many moments, and in the first half, when we could have been holding the ball longer, “Sabău said at Primasport.
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… Analysis of the students of: “There are matches where I am very careful about each player, at what level he can take. There are very effective matches for us, as a staff, for the club. We will see what we have to do to raise the level. And the matches help us, because I am the mirror of each player. We will have to look better than this year.
We have to make certain changes, it is clear! I think we can more, we still have important matches to play. Each one can mature, can demonstrate at what level it is at the moment and if we can rely on it. Of course, we will draw conclusions about each player. ”
… How to compare FCSB and CFR Cluj: “Maybe FCSB has a bit of extra experience, but it has no dynamics, the game speed they had. They seem tired. Many matches, injured players. No longer have a rhythm and quality especially on the attack phase. But they remain players who take individually they look good, they have personality. “
… arbitration: “What could I say about the penalty? It was given, the specialists will draw conclusions. When you stay 4 minutes at the lime and give only 5 minutes of extensions … against the CFR, without lime intervention, there were 8 minutes of extension.
… … The accusations of Adrian Mititelu Junior: “I have nothing to clarify. It is a point of view of Mr. Mititelu. I have no explanations to give such a man, with such accusations. To say something seems totally displaced. I am blocked, actually, I can not give any answer.”
