LIVE SEPSI OSK – Lighthouse, Suffering team match in play -out

SEPS and lighthousetwo teams that a year ago were in the championship play-off, exempt from any worries, are going through delicate moments, and today they meet in the game that can stop their agony. The data of the problem? The Covăsnenii did not give the expected restart with Dorinel Munteanu on the bench, while the “sailors” arrived on the place of “dam”.

The match also means a meeting between two of the best rated Romanian coaches. Dorinel Munteanu and Hagi They are the most selected players in the history of the Romanian national. The coach of Sepsi has 134 selections and 16 goals, while Hagi has a dowry of 125 selections and 35 goals.

Live. Sepsi OSK – Lighthouse 0-0

Sepsi OSK – Constanța Lighthouse, Probable teams:

Sepsi OSK: Niczuly – Simic, Haruț, Ninaj, F. Stefan – Mino, C. Matei, El Sawy – M. Coman, Oberlin, Neskovic
Reserves: Gyenge, Debeljuh, Drăghiceanu, Dumitrescu, Kallaku, A. Nistor, Oroian, Oteliță, Siger, Skorup, M. Tamas
Coach: Dorinel Munteanu

Constanta Lighthouse: Buzbuchi – Sîrbu, Larie, Gustavo Marins, Ganea – Banu, Dican, Vînă – Grigoryan, Alibec, Băsceanu
reserves: Ducan, Bălașa, Buta, Fabinho, Țîru, Reginaldo, Nicolas Popescu, Radaslavescu, Ciobanu, Doicaru, Kivinda
Coach: Gheorghe Hagi

Stadium: Sepsi Arena, Sfântu Gheorghe
Referee: Marcel Bîrsan (Bucharest) / A1: Vasile Marinescu (Bucharest) / A2: Ionuț Traian Neacșu (Bucharest) / Var Referee: Sebastian Colțescu (Bucharest) / Avar Referee: Cristina Mariana Trandafic (Bucharest) / R1: Vasile Buzea (Giurgiu) / Referee observer: Irina Mirt (Bucharest)

The up-to-date ranking in the play-out of the Superligi

Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe – Farul | The key data of the match, filtered by GSP statistician Liviu Manolache

• February 24, 2025, UTA Arad-Sepsi 1-2 was the only victory successful by Covasneni in the last eight matches played in the championship, in the rest a draw and six defeats.
• Two successes, seven equality results and seven lost parties is the record recorded by Dobrogens in the current season of visitors.
• 12 goals on the countercake raised the group from St. George, Most of all competitors.
• 12 goals received the Constanţa after the 75th minute, of which six in the extensions of the second half.
• With seven scored goals and seven decisive passes, Denis Alibec contributed to 42.4 % of the goals scored by the Lighthouse in the first 33 rounds.
• The two teams met in the main internal competition 24 times, six times they won the Covasnens, 10 times the Dobrogens were imposed, and other eight parties ended in a draw.
• The first confronted took place on August 5, 2017, Sepsi Osk-Viitorul 1-0, empty by Attila Hadnagy, in the 90+2 minute.
• Two of the eight draws recorded white score on the table, both on the land of the Transylvanian band (February 22, 2019 and April 1, 2019).
• The most recent direct dispute in the Superliga Romania: February 6, 2025, Sepsi OSK-FAR 1-0 (Denis Haruţ scorer). The partida will be a special one, because The two technical banks are led by the most selected players in the history of Romanian footballDorinel Munteanu
• 134 presences under the tricolor and Gheorghe Hagi – 124 matches for the first representative. They contributed together to the most beautiful stories from the “Golden Generation” period, those written by national at the final tournaments of CM 1994 and 1998, respectively EC 1996 and 2000.
• And from the position of coaches, Munteanu and Hagi have achieved formidable performances. “Neamţul” won the title with Steel in 2010/2011, the Galatians becoming the only formation in the Moldovan area that won superliga, while the Dobrogenic technician finished twice at the head of the standings, in 2016/2017 and 2022/2023, each time having the youngest team.

Dorinel Munteanu is firm: “We have to interrupt the negative series of results!”

Dorinel Munteanu, the technician of the group from Sfântu Gheorghe, prefaced the meeting on Saturday at a press conference:

“We must approach the game with one thought: to interrupt the negative series of results. For this we must be connected to the game, involved. I expect a lot from my players because the period of adaptation, change of coach has passed. I know what I want from them. I do not want anything out of the ordinary: only involvement, dedication, aggression and a good collective game.

We face an unpredictable team, a team with experienced players, but also young people, a coach with great experience. It all belongs to our game and our attitude. I wait a lot from the players who have been on the team for a long time. To be very focused on the game and get the positive results we want because the steps are drained and … we are still in the game. We need to be very cautious and determined.

(…) This team is unpredictable, if you let it play, it does it very well with any team. We need a very well organized collective game. They understood what I want from them, there is nothing out of the ordinary. It is a system that any player can accommodate. To prove that it is worth being on this team and the results must appear. I am convinced, from what we do at workouts and individually, it will be good for the team.

I have given the goals received in the last matches. The game was not as we wanted it because I had a short time. Football is not complicated, we complicate it a lot. We have to be with our feet on the ground. A hard match awaits us.

I have no batch problems, Mailat returned after the injury, otherwise I have the whole lot available. I have 23 players, and when I call them they have to have a yield to thank the supporters, the leadership because we are a little owed, “said Dorinel Munteanu at the press conference preceding the party with Farul Constanța.

Of course it's a pressure. It is totally different from play-off games. Here is the pressure that we have to motivate us, because we have experienced players and quality, but these things must be proved on the field.

– Dorinel Munteanu, coach Sepsi OSK

Arrived on the place of “dam”, Hagi makes cautious statements: “The desire is one, the power is another”

Gheorghe Hagi, the technical manager of the “shark”, spoke about the match in Covasnei's heart:

“We are two coaches to whom we like to win, but we must also go through such moments. We know each other well, and he wants his team to be very good on transition and very aggressive in defensive and tries in the offensive to play football he proposes.

We want to win, but let's see if we can achieve this. The desire is one, the power is another. We have to win, so we will approach the match, but we see what is coming. We go ahead and try to change things, to be in the first league and the year.

(…) “The pressure exists in football from the beginning to the end, when you want to win the match and you have claims. It is a difficult time. It was 3-4 years old in Constanța, it was beautiful, we showed a very good, quality football, and we got to win the title. The world has become accustomed to this and he saw us all the time as a team that has to fight at the top places.

But I said that the lighthouse can be a team that aspires there, but it can do any result. Everything starts from the need to have very large budgets. When you have no money for purchases and you take what you can and what it can, it can come out or not. When you take players who have played less or not lately, you take some risks, ”Hagi pointed out.

I strongly believe that a victory will trust us so that we can hang on to the higher places in the standings. If we begin to complain of pity we will never get anywhere

– Alexandru Buzbuchi, Portar Farul Constanța

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