Article by Daniel Grigore – published on Friday, July 25, 2025, 00:38 / Updated on Friday, July 25, 2025 00:42
Mirel Rădoi, 44, coach of Craiova University, was irritated by The intervention held by the shareholder Mihai Rotaru immediately after the final whistle of defeat with FK Sarajevo, 1-2and suggested that the players did not respect them or could not put into practice the tactical indications they offered in the preparation of the match.
In Sarajevo, for about an hour, Craiova University was out. The hosts scored twice and wasted other important situations, the goalkeeper Pavlo Isenko being on a grace day.
How did Mirel Rădoi commented?
“A first half that belonged to them, or at least the first 18 minutes, in which we were not mentally prepared and there was decided the result of the match. Then a second half in which we tried to change what did not work in the first part. I made some changes, some situations appeared, but unfortunately I could not return,” Rădoi said.
Mirel Rădoi, Iureș after Sarajevo-Craiova University: “Ask the players if they were surprised! I could not be”
Asked if the players were surprised by the start of Sarajevo, Rădoi seemed to blame his students:
“I think you should ask them. I couldn't be surprised as soon as I told you before the match I gave them all the information and we were waiting for this”.
“When the opponent makes you presing man in man, there are two possibilities: either you try to create superiority through dribbling, or play quickly, from as few touches, through combinations. all in the half of the opponent.
It's hard to play in Europe, I knew this, that the intensity, the value of the players differ. After all, you saw what executions they had. We escaped from the middle of the land, 2 against 1, and we did not even complete. They gave a goal from a center, the second bar, volley. After all, we need to accept reality.
We will see how we can turn the result, but the way we started the game, in the first 18 minutes, when I did not exist on the ground from a mental point of view, with many lost balls, I think we have no chance“, Added the white-blue coach.
Rădoi, irritated by Mihai Rotaru's assertion: “I see that he is now doing analyzes”
Finally, Rădoi was brought to the attention of the statement made by the shareholder Mihai Rotaru in the intervention at the end of the match: “Slava Ukraini!”, Alludes to the benefits of the goalkeeper Pavlo Isenko and the marker Oleksandr Romanchuk.
“It's his statement, he knows best. I see that now do analysis after the match”, It was Rădoi's reaction.
