Article by Adrian Duţă – published Monday, April 07, 2025, 10:27 / Updated Monday, April 7, 2025 10:32
Dinamo lost with fast, 0-1and it seems that he wants to beat the record of Giulesti, who lost 8 matches last season in the play-off.
There are 7 stages and, until now, Dinamo has shown that it is unable to beat someone to stay this season. The “dogs” have reached other coordinates here.
First of all, it was impeccable on its own ground in the regular season. Improper said land, here we are talking about the field on the “Arc de Triomphe” stadium. If he had only played at the national arena in the host, Dinamo would have had a much harder mission to reach the play-off.
Kopic pulled Dinamo after him to the play-off
Without politics, Selmani and Homawoo, Kopic's team smells of play-out, with small exceptions, such as Gnahore, Cîrjan and Boateng. The rest of the lot only highlights Zeljko's huge merit in what means the qualification in the play-off and the unexpected rescue from the last relegation by almost a year. Croatian is the main craftsman of what has happened in the last months in “pack”.
He managed to take a team from the retrograde places and take it to the top 6 in a year, with a lesser batch than the play-off competition rivals. So far he could with a handful of good players. For more, it needs serious reinforcements.
Zeljko Kopic, in Rapid – Dinamo // Photo: Ionuț Iordache (GSP)
Even he, discharged, acknowledged that Dinamo had a limit. It will be able to be more in the future. Those who hold the club's reins have already shown that they know what to do to take the club to a higher level. They have already done so: exactly two years ago, Dinamo was in the play-off in Liga 2, now it is in the play-off.
It would not be surprising that in 2027 it will be fighting with real chances in the title, assuming that until then it escapes the eternal process with Vasile Șiman, and the trend will be maintained from one season to another.
The situation is not so dramatic: Let's remember where Dinamo was on April 7, 2024
Being a boxing bag in the play-off is certainly not on Dinamo's agenda, but the situation is not as dramatic as it was, for example, that of Rapid last season.
If on April 7, 2024 the dynamo fans had received a sheet that was the question “Do you want the team in the play-off, even if they lose all the matches?”, 99.9% of them would have checked with both hands “yes”.
Looking in the short term, Dinamo risks laughing in the play-off. Judging in perspective, “dogs” can learn from this play-off and they can prepare for bolder goals.
