Article by Eduard Apostol – published Monday, April 7, 2025 22:46 / Updated Monday, April 7, 2025 23:02
The most surprising coach of the season: Dan Petrescu! Serious. Blame, ponegrite, derision or foot, the 57 -year -old technician has shown that it can be changed. For good.
Which is not little, especially from an age, when the automatisms and personal characteristics change much harder. And, especially, when we talk about a man with a well -defined personality, which was successful with a certain system.
Dan Petrescu won 8 trophies, of which 6 championships, with a disciplined, unsightly, but efficient, performance magnet, with obedient and rigid soldiers.
The only constant thing is the change, once said a philosopher
The most successful coach in the internal league in the last 25 years has transformed from “Mr. 1-0” in the promoter of an offensive, open, surprising football, which makes CFR Cluj the only candidate for the title, coherent, for FCSB.
Aaa, that he has his manners and metechnics, the sharp language, frustrations that he is not appreciated as the results … OK. Who has no defects? Larger or smaller. It is important what man leaves behind him. And one of the most titled technicians in internal history shows that it can be metamorphosis.
CFR kidnapped Craiova University, twice in a few days, and in the cup, and in the championship, destabilizing a direct opponent. And how? With an offensive football, generous, without giving the opponent the chance to enter the match in the duel of Gruia, on Monday night. After executing the penalties in the cup as in the 11 meter manual.
Yes, correctly, the “railway” were much more cautious in the second half, being interested only to secure the advantage of two goals. They no longer wanted to be surprised that in the recent derby of Cluj, with U (0-1), when they made a single mistake and that was decisive. Because if the team from Gruia knows how to attack, he no longer knows the art of defense.
CFR Cluj has a first 11 solid, a reserve bank that offers multiple solutions and, at least until now, has been bypassed by major medical problems.
The figures and facts that sing for the superdan
Dan Petrescu had the capacity, and the courage in the end, to change a taciturn module into a wreck:
– The main offensive in the championship, 61 goals.
– The daily goalscorer, Louis Munteanu, 20 goals.
– Two other footballers with offensive appetite, Kamara and Korenica, the scorers of the day, who go out, when “first violin” is in number. In fact, CFR and FCSB are the only top bands that not only depend on a single player.
– Djokovic's reinvenation after negative experiences at FCSB and Rapid.
– Hindrich – annoying for sure, Ilie and Fică – two juniors who are still from the first 11, Emërllahu – inventive, Simao Rocha – probably, the best right defender of the moment, considering the offensive intake, although, at the origins, it is left defender.
And another detail that Dan Petrescu showed us in the last days. The fragility of Craiova University, a candidate for the title, however, but dependent exclusively on the form of a single footballer, Alex Mitriță, and a precarious psychic.
