Article by Maria Olteanu – published on Friday, October 10, 2025 22:49 / Updated on Friday, October 10, 2025:57
No 24 hours after Victoria with the Republic of Moldova, from the friendly played on Friday evening, score 2-1, on the National Arena, “Tricolori” tuted the engines at training to be in maximum form in the official game, on Sunday, against Austria.
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Romania – Austria, in the preliminaries of the World Championship of 2026, is played on Sunday, October 12, from 9:45 pm. The match will be LiveText on GSP.ro and on TV on Antena 1
Prior to the only official match of October, Romania tested its limits in the confrontation with the representative over Prut. Lucescu has introduced in the fight more the players who have evolved less in this campaign, following, on the one hand, to give them a chance and, on the other hand, to make the holders before the game with Austria, on Sunday evening, an extremely important match in order to obtain the second place in the group.
On the other hand, Austria paraded with the “red lantern” of the group and scored ten times against the representative of San Marino.
Photo. Tricolors fired hard at training before the duel with Austria
On Friday afternoon, Mircea Lucescu sounded the meeting, and the tricolors fired hard to train the last details before the game with Austria.
From the images posted on Facebook by the representatives of the Romanian Football Federation, it was possible to see that the players took everything seriously and did not relax at all, being fully mounted before a crucial match.
Slips and clamps were not missing from training, the intensity of the duels between the national players not being ignored.
We will see tomorrow, tomorrow, analyze the situation and see how the players come back. We will see how the players are restored. There are some players who come back hard after such a match, not being used to play 90 minutes. When they are called, they have to cope.
Running 3 kilometers in training and 11 in the match … Either you let them recover, or get injured. Unfortunately, these things did not exist before 1990, I know very well what things were then, I was more professional than those in the West. The claims are high, and they have responsibilities.
Our problem is the basis of the game. There is a great prestige match with Austria. Let's see if this will be my last match
– Mircea Lucescu, the Romanian coach
The ranking in the Romanian group
