Article by Daniel Grigore – published Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 07:50 / Updated Wednesday, June 11, 2025 07:51
The way Mircea Lucescu described the Cyprus team after Romania's victory by 2-0 He was amused on Basarab Panduru (54 years old). “Maybe I saw them weaker, with this window in front,” said the former international.
At the end of success with Cyprus, 2-0 in the fourth stage of the world championship preliminaries, the coach Mircea Lucescu spoke in praiseworthy terms about the defeated:
“A very good team, ran from the beginning to the end. They asked us problems, they did Presing, but we managed to dominate this match categorically, even though in the last minutes they seemed too easy to interpret the attack situations ”.
Basarab Panduru heard Mircea Lucescu and could not help: “With the window in front, I saw weak”
The former international Basarab Panduru was not on the same wavelength as the Romanian coach. From the improvised studio of Primasport inside the National Arena, somewhere in the Lojilor area, Panduru did ironically:
“From here, with this window in front, I saw them weaker, but probably they are very good on the ground. I was expecting to say that the newer, that prevented that, was very brilliant. Maybe with this window in front you can see the match differently. “
In a serious tone, he continued:
“Cyprus was not a good team, no. Not at all!
Do not say that a match at home or away to the dam is the same. It's not! One is to play at home with 55,000 spectators, another to play away. We can not place 1, there is no problem – let's shoot at least 2nd place, to have the first dam match at home. ”
In the next action, in September, the “tricolors” will play a single match in the group, against Cyprus, away. In October they will receive Austria's visit, and in November they will end the campaign with matches in Bosnia and Herzegovina, respectively Home with San Marino.
