In Depringolada, the Romanian national meets Austria tonight. Lucescu escaped the team's hinges

Ashley Davis12/10/2025

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Romania also hopes for qualifying at the Dam for the 2026 World Cup in the second position of the group, with three stages remaining in the preliminaries. Tonight, from 21.45 (Antena 1), the tricolors have the first “final”, with the favorite Austria, so that in November it will dispute on the next, on the land of Bosnia. The last match, with San Marino, will be just as important, the national need for a bag of goals in the gate of the outside, the goal being the first criterion of separation in case of equal points.

Mircea Lucescu, misunderstood decisions. Photos photo photos

After obtaining 7 points in the first 5 games, Romania needs 9 in the last three matches. Desidated unlikely, but still not impossible to obtain. This is even if the team is going to happen to the team, with Mircea Lucescu in the fore

Răzvan Marin is apt but injured

The tricolor coach had an incomprehensible episode with Răzvan Marin, the selection leader from the convened group for this action – 70 matches for the national yesterday. Mircea Lucescu announced as being unavailable, urgently calling Adrian Şut, even though Marin trained normally with colleagues. He did it all week, less Friday, because of a small muscle load. But the coach announced something else entirely: “Certainly, it is a situation where there is no solution other than not playing Răzvan. He has not trained all week.”

Lucescu made this statement just before the result of the MRI came. Who went well, Răzvan Marin having no problem to stop him from playing against Austria. This case made former international Ciprian Marica to exclaim: “A comic situation. His father says something (no football player Petre Marin), Nea Mircea says he did not train all week. What, God forgives me, it is not clear to this aspect? Mircea controls in detail every detail, now it seems that I am no longer in the control of him.

Play to resign

Also before the match with Austria, Mircea Lucescu upset his players. He announced that he wanted to resign after the previous match, with Cyprus (2-2), but also that he would probably do it soon “As I made a promise (no if it will be replaced by Gică Hagi)”.
These statements do not fall well to the tricolors, which instead of focusing on the match with Austria are thinking about what the future reserves. And the FRF has been forced to send an official to Poland, to convince Edi Iordănescu to take the team, so that he does not remain discovered for next month's matches.

And during this week there was an episode that shows how tense the national coach is. He had a moved exit to a journalist, immediately after the friendly match with Moldova (2-1). Addressed by reporter Digisport, the coach refused to answer questions and had a tirade to a journalist, who, right, had written without evidence that Lucescu was late for a training because he fell asleep during a massage session.

Made him a dobit on a journalist

“Who are you? (No-it is called Digisport). If you keep this one who said I had a massage … the one you hold there. There is a limit and I can't stand it. He said I was three hours and I fell asleep on the massage table. At my age, you put me in an embarrassing situation.

He can't be played by me, I have an age, I did something. Some did nothing. I did all my life, I sacrificed, I played, I walked in the world, in the country, and a beast comes to say that I fell asleep on the massage table. To understand and learn to behave with people, especially with one like me, who has done something in this life! That's it, to give it out! ”, Mircea Lucescu tuned.

In this atmosphere Romania plays tonight against Austria, a team at maximum speed, which has defeated in all the parties in the group and which marks on a treadmill.