After a first half with ugly football, without occasions, U Cluj prevailed in Clinceni, with Unirea Slobozia, thanks to Nistor's goal, score 1-0.
It was difficult to anticipate that in the 8th round we will attend a duel where the Union Slobozia will be over U Cluj in the standings.
And yet, before the game from Clinceni, on a ragged lawn, as if made of rapid pieces of lawn gathered by different pastures, the Ialomitians were on 7 and the Transylvanians only on 9, after a stumbling route, without any connection with what had happened last season.
Chronicle of Marius Mărgărit: Save by a veteran. On the dark side of football
With some changes in the starting formula, compared to the last match, the defeat with Dinamo, the guests took the initiative from the first minutes. But also Molcom, without ideas or gate phases, in front of a team that knew how to crowd enough to brake the adverse possession.
After half an hour, U Cluj had the ball at 75%, but the balance was sad, zero kicks, totally crazy, passes in the last third or launches, a chaotic game. In front of a team that was satisfied to defend himself down quite down, trying only extremely rarely to respond on the contrary.
No connection between U Cluj, the champion of the previous regular season and the current team. When you play endlessly, although the gates are along it, it is almost impossible to remove something. More direct, the union was even more dangerous. Especially by Dragu, who did not end up pulling twice at the gate, but missing the target. He answered the same way U Cluj, finally! When Simion took a corridor and gave hard, diagonally, but besides the gate. Only towards the end of the first half.
Until the break, it was just a special way of playing, savory, ugly, without any ingredient, the dark side of football. Between a team that didn't have much, with one who had no one. Logically, nothing at nothing and on the table.
The old man from the right place
It would have been a jerk in both changing rooms, because none of the technicians could be satisfied with what he had seen. And the effect was seen. The game got some color. Purece stretched Gertmonas, and then, on a counter, Atanas Trică, followed by his father, panicked and, left alone with Rusu, pulled into him.
Only two minds later, the Transylvanians managed to mark, at the end of a phase in which they shook their heads through the Ialomita square as they wanted. From such a duel, Atanas put a perfect ball to the veteran Nistor, at the first success this season. The little guest gallery was still heard: “Come on, u! Come on, u!”. Mijea hope that football will still be played.
It wasn't that way, but the teams endeavored to offer something more to those in the stands. Prepeliță risked everything, brought on the ground everything he had an offensive, but it was difficult with U Cluj, who really has the science of possession. And at the shelter of the advantage, he had no reason to hurry. The union tried, went out to the game. She pressed with her weapons, but without giving great emotions to Gertmonas. Which was at the right place and at the execution of Afalna, which completed a short counterattack initiated by Florescu.
But the game went out to the end. Suffocated by the powerlessness and the repeated steps of the Transylvanians, the union was more successful, as he had done in Arad. And slides a little into the superligation hierarchy. And the people of Cluj, after a glory without glory, but extremely necessary, especially to obliterate the wounds so far, climb the play-off area for now.
Ranking now in the superliga
Final »Unirea Slobozia – U Cluj 0-1
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Scored: Nistor 54
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570 spectators they attended this match, official figure, 69 of which were guests
Unirea Slobozia – U Cluj, Start teams
Union Slobozia (4-3-3): D. Rusu – Dorobanțu, I. Dinu, Antoche, Șerbănică – V. Pop, Hamadiji, Purece – C. Bărbuț, Afalna, A. Dragu
Reserves: Gurau, Ibrian, Saranov, C. Toma, R. Deaconu, Florescu, Round, Said, Dulcea, Mushroom
Absent: R. Garutti (injured), R. Black (suspended)
Coach: Andrei Prepeliță
U Cluj (4-3-1-2): Gertmonas – Mikanovic, Cisse, Cristea, Chipciu – Simion, Codrea, O. Bic – Nistor – Trică, Lukic
reserves: Lefter, Chirilă, Artean, Capradossi, Drammeh, Murgia, Factory, Miguel Silva, Bârstan, Bota, Macalou
Absent: Van der Werff (injured)
Coach: Ioan Ovidiu Sabău
Stadium: Stadium: Clinceni – Arena 1
Referee: Roman George Catalin (Timisoara – Timiş)
A1: Marchidanu Marius Cristian (Brăila – Brăila)
A2: Filip Alexandru (Constanta – Constanta)
Var Referee: Petrescu Radu (Bucharest – Bucharest)
Avar Referee: Trandafir Cristina Mariana (Bucharest – Bucharest)
Pictures before Union Slobozia – U Cluj
