Article by Maria Olteanu – published on Saturday, September 20, 2025 22:10 / Updated on Saturday, September 20, 2025 22:20
Ioan Ovidiu Sabău (57 years old), the coach of the University of Cluj, reacted harshly to his student, Ovidiu Bic (31 years old), who saw two yellow cards within 6 minutes in failure 0-1 with FC Argeș, from the 10th stage, and left his team in numerical inferiority for more than half an hour.
Sabău did not forgive Bic after the match, considering that he was not allowed to do this at his experience and took him that he tried to make jokes with Oancea, his former colleague, currently an opponent.
Then he also criticized the team, disappointed by another modest game made by Cluj.
Ioan Ovidiu Sabău, reaction after failure with FC Argeș
“At his experience, I don't know what he did. I don't know how you look at this football game. You make jokes with the right-handed defender, that you played together? I didn't understand what happened there. You have to be a responsible man.
However, it is an important club, a team with goals. If he was a child, I understood, but it seems … OK, you are tired, but you are not allowed at this level. He is a counterattack, you let him go and you go with him, he would have entered the edge, but there are those moments that decide the game, when you are uninspired and make bad decisions.
We do not show that a football team, first of all. I didn't have that state of mind shown by the opponent. We play with fear, we do not assume, we give the ball from one to the other without any logic at times.
I have to go into combinations, feel a footballer. If you do not take great goals, it's too little. You have to wish you much more ”, said after the match Ioan Ovidiu Sabău, quoted by Digisport.ro.
After 10 rounds from Superliga, U Cluj is in 8th place, with 13 points, and the next round has a local derby with CFR Cluj rival.
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