Dinamo 4×4! Had never happened in the play-off

Ashley Davis12/04/2025

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Dinamo got a very solid match on Saturday night, On the move, with the University of Cluj, in the 4th stage of the play-off. In the match in Transylvania, Zeljko Kopic's students scored no less than 4 times, unique performance in the play-off for “dogs”.

Dinamo has been tormented in recent years, fighting more in the area of retrograde places and even reaching Liga 2, two seasons ago. After an 8-year break, the “dogs” returned to the play-off, but the results were not those expected by fans after the first 3 matches.

With good evolutions along the regular season, Dinamo cleared in the play-off, losing the first 3 confrontations: 1-3 with CFR Cluj, 1-2 with FCSB and 0-1 with Rapid.

The first victory for Dinamo from the current play-off »show with 6 goals in the match with

Dinamo, premiere performance in play-off

On Saturday evening, in the fourth stage of the play-off, Dinamo went to Cluj with a defensive defensive, which received a goal after 14 minutes. Subsequently, the guests produced “Remontada”, at the end of a crazy half, in which it was scored by 5 goals. Dinamo entered 3-2 at the break, and in the second part “dogs” once more scored.

Simion was wrong in his own square, Gertmonas had no way to intervene, and the player of U Cluj marked his own gate, Dinamo taking over the lead, with 4-2.

With this success, Dinamo ticks a premiere in the play-off, being for the first time when 4 goals score in a Top 6 match, in the history of the competition, since this system was implemented.

In the past, Dinamo had managed to score at most three times at the play-off matches, twice, in 2016 and 2017, the first time at a sad memory for dynamovist breath, a match in which Patrick Ekeng died, on May 6, 2016.

Play-off matches in which Dinamo had scored three goals:

06.05.2017: CFR Cluj – Dinamo 0-3 (S. Filip, S. Hanca and C. Bumba)
06.05.2016: Dinamo – Viitorul 3-3 (H. Gnohere X2, D. Rotariu / R. Marin, F. Tănase, A. Mățan)

At the same time, it has been almost 7 years since Dinamo last scored 4 goals in the first stage. It happened on May 19, 2018, Concordia-Dinamo 0-4.

Also, with the 4 goals successful in Cluj-Napoca on Saturday evening, Dinamo gets to have the best offensive in this play-off, with 6 successes, on a draw with FCSB, which has a minus match. The Romanian champion plays on Sunday evening, in Craiova, with the University, from 9:00 pm.