Article by George Nistor – Published on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 18:33 / Updated Tuesday, April 22, 2025 18:34
His yield Cătălin Cîrjan (22 years old) decreased considerably in the play-off of the superlig. Dinamo's midfielder fails to be decisive for his team, as he did in the regular championship, and the figures demonstrate a steep decrease.
Cîrjan's performance in defeat with Craiova University, final score 0-2, from the fifth round of the last competitive phase, left it to be desired. The former player of Arsenal did not put his mark in the offensive game of “dogs”.
Highly appreciated by white-red, international youth supporters has problems in parties with caliber opponents. In the play-off, he checked four of the five games, being suspended due to the accumulation of yellow cards in the first stage, with CFR Cluj, concluded with the victory of the railway, 3-1 in Gruia.
Cătălin Cîrjan, in free fall in the play-off
The GSP analyzed the evolutions of Cătălin Cîrjan in the two phases of the Superligion, regular championship and play-off, in which we took into account the essential parameters for its position, provided by WYSCOUT, a platform that provides relevant information collected by 250 experts from all over the world.
Data reveals a clear situation. The offensive midfielder has falling figures in terms of shots, steps, but also dribbling. In the play-off, he sent the ball once on the gate space, in the failure with Rapid (0-1).
Cîrjan is just as involved in Dinamo's game, and even has an average of passes larger than the first part of the season, but the accuracy has diminished by almost two percent.
Alarming is how much the degree of dribbling has lowered: from 52.98% to 37.5%. Instead, it has an average of the duels made on the match with 3 more, although the success rate has reached only 41%.
|
Parameter |
Regular season |
playoffs |
|
Goals |
7 |
0 |
|
Empty passes |
2 |
0 |
|
Total actions / success * |
71/66% |
86/67.92% |
|
Suts/on the gate * |
1.5/25.83% |
0.5/25% |
|
Passes/accuracy * |
48/81.71% |
62/79.3% |
|
Dribbling/successful* |
2.43/52.98% |
1.25/37.5% |
|
Duels/earned* |
15.4/43% |
18.5/41.28% |
|
Recovery/adverse half* |
4.6/51.58% |
4.5/43.75% |
*average per match
From 7 goals to 0
Cîrjan had only one “victim” of play-offs along the competition, CFR Cluj, in the first round of the championship, when he debuted in Dinamo's shirt. Otherwise, he scored with Oil, Unirea Slobozia, Farul, FC Botosani, Hermannstadt and UTA.
After defeating the University of Craiova, in which the captain's banner, the player from Ilfov, also said that he and his colleagues do not feel at the National Arena as well as the Arc de Triomphe Stadium, which can be one of the causes for which the team suffers.
“Of course we could beat them. We showed this in the regular season. Craiova is one of the best teams in the championship. They will certainly fight for the title. We were not thinking about staying so bad after the first 5 matches, that is to have 4 defeats. I do not want to talk about the title.
