Article by Sergiu Alexandru – published on Thursday, August 21, 2025, 20:51 / Updated Thursday, August 21, 2025 20:51
Fcsb will play from 9:45 pm in Scotland, on the ground of Aberdeenin the tour of the Europa League play-off. The match will be livetext on gsp.ro and live on the voyo.ro platform.
- Return takes place over a week in Bucharest
- The winner of the double goes into the Europa League group, the loser will play in the Conference League group
After passing Drita, FCSB will face Aberdeen, the winner of the Scotland Cup, which is in the first match in the European Cups this season.
Aberdeen – FCSB, live from 21:45
Aberdeen – FCSB, Start teams
Aberdeen: Mitov – Jensen, Dorrington, Milen, Molloy – Palavers, Nilsen – Milanovic, Aouchiche, Keskinen – Yengi
reserves: Suman, Vitolis, Devlin, Shinnie, Knoester, Polvara, Clarkson, Bilalovic, Boyd, Sokler, Lobban
Coach: Jimmy Thelin
FCSB: Târnovanu – Crețu, M. Popescu, Graovac, Pantea – Şut, Chiricheș – Miculescu, Fl. Tănase, Cisotti – Bîrligaa
reserves: Zima, Kiki, Lixandru, Olaru, Edjouma, Political, Miculescu, Oct. Popescu
Absent: Edjoua, Alhassan, Radunovic (no right of play)
Coach: Elias Charalambous
Stadium: Pittodrie Stadium
Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük // Assistants: Erwin Zeinstra, Patrick Inia
Var Referee: Pol Van Boekel // Assistants Var: Robin Hensgens (all of the Netherlands)
UPDATE 19:30 »The first pictures in Scotland
The first images from the stadium appear. The lawn is presented in excellent conditions, and the Scots prepared the scenography with flags in white and red, the colors of the club.
UPDATE 17:30 »FCSB, without holders
The three players did not receive the right to play, despite the efforts of the red-blue staff. Thus, Pantea, Graovac and Lixandru or Sut will play from the first minute.
Contacted by the Sports Gazeta, Gigi Becali, the FCSB owner, offered a reaction according to the problem with the players. He revealed that they would have been holders, but says that the substitutes are expected to rise to the match level.
“They rejected us, yes. What should we do now? We don't cry anymore. How does the Lord want! If that was to be … the others are not players? They are good players, yes, holders all three. But it is not a problem. I have a feeling that we will win. I may not lose them. We beat them and we get them over the muzzle, “said Gigi Becali.
UPDATE 16:45 »Ngezana, Radunovic and Alhassan still do not know if I can play in Aberdeen – FCSB
The three extra community players in the red-blue lot are in a complicated situation. They have not yet received the visa from the authorities in Scotland and I do not know if they can play tonight. Ever since they arrived in Aberdeen, the three have not left the hotel. Nor did they participate in the official training.
The staff of FCSB has worked intensely in recent days to get their right to play. But the problem has not yet resolved. The red-blue ones hoped to get the opinion today, but at 4:00 pm Romania time, almost 6 hours until the beginning, the three did not receive the visa.
The boys are in the hotel. Unfortunately, it is not something that depends on us. The club has tried to do their best to solve the situation since we qualified. I couldn't do anything before. We have to wait. They came with us (no in Scotland), they did not receive the acceptance to come to train with us because the papers are not ready. The visas are not ready.
We have to wait until tomorrow. If the visas are ok, it will not be a problem to be able to have minutes tomorrow. It's not that big thing they missed.
0 Elias Charalambous at the press conference preceding the match with Aberdeen
