“Do you know who was doing so? Mourinho!” »Gică Popescu reveals Mircea Lucescu's unexpected strategy:” I said before “

The defender Virgil Ghiță scored at the last phase of the match played on the National Arena. Victoria comes after a few agitated days, with Mircea Lucescu angrily on the press and threatening with resignation. Gică Popescu believes that all the gestures of the coach were highly calculated, to attach any discussion from his players.

“They believed until the end, proof is Ghiță's appearance at the last phase. Mircea Lucescu has a huge experience, he lived many such matches, of decisive finals. I said before the game we should not worry that he did not know how to prepare such matches. He probably did before the match was a strategy. Lucescu, not about players.

Do you know who was doing so? Mourinho! I remember the famous match when he was at Real Madrid and went out before a match with Barcelona in the middle of the field, so that the stands would whistle him and leave the players alone. There are coaches who make these issues well thought out ”, explained the former captain of Barcelona in the Antena 1 studio.

I saw a living national, with confidence, with courage. There are two matches. I am very confident, but let's stay with our feet on the ground. We have a match in Bosnia, which also depends on that result. I went through so much. Let's enjoy tonight, but to have our feet on the ground, there is a very important match.
– Gică Popescu

Calculations: Romania can qualify directly at the World Championship + the match with Bosnia, crucial

• Romania also has to play with Bosnia, on November 15th. Three days later he will face San Marino. Austria, the team from the first place, has to play with Cyprus and Bosnia.
• At this moment, the Austrians have 15 points, Bosnia has 13 points, Romania has 10. All 3 May have two matches to play.

Romania still has theoretical chances at the 1st place. However, any point made by Austria takes us out of calculation. In equality of score, the goal is the first criterion of separation, and the Austrians are much better, they have +16, while we have +5. Thus, Romania should pass Austria to get the first place in points. How is this happening? Everything here.