Was there no signal on the FCSB bank?

It's a pity for Olaru's wonderful goal, for the effort of the team forced to play 80 minutes with a man down, for the good game, even if the favorite score was the counterattack, because it's hard to have who knows what possession when you're outnumbered.

Scolded for not knowing how to sit in the wall!

Everyone is talking about the errors of Ngezana and Târnovanu, but the expert in the living room also found other culprits, in the persons of Bîrligea and Miculescu, guilty of the first two goals.

The first, even accused of not knowing how to stand in the wall. It's the first accusation of this kind I've heard in half a century of watching matches and commentating.

Good for 1-1

But those on the technical bench cannot be counted among the culprits at Basel. With multiple subject (double this time), Charalambous and Pintilii. At 1-1, after the 70th minute, they called Lixandru and Cisotti from the warm-up, asked them to strip and go to the sideline, to the reserve referee, to be introduced as soon as possible.

They seemed like reasonable substitutions for the equal score at that point, Lixandru was going to close the lanes, Cisotti could have held on to the ball so that the remaining minutes went by more easily.

No sense at 1-2

But in that moment the unlucky 2nd goal was received, Basel took the lead and the substitutions, acceptable for the score, no longer made any sense in the new situation. What to close with Lixandru, when you are driven? Why remove Tănase and, especially, Olaru?

Normally you look at the context (any third division manager would have done that) and resort to something else. Maybe, being driven, you put in Alibec, for example. Or on Politic earlier, not in the 90th minute. Or other options. There was time, a minute passed, maybe even more, before Basel were happy and retreated to their own half so that the game could resume.

That's what they say, that's what they do!

In the same minute, no one from the bench had the courage to call the dining room in Pipera and ask permission from the management to make other changes, because the score has changed.

That's what they were told to do and that's what they did, you guys don't go out of the master's word even if he orders them to put Bârligea in the goal or Zima on the far right.

Training in the upright position

Maybe there wasn't time. Perhaps the GSM signal at Sankt Jakobs Park was weak. Maybe the strategist in the living room didn't hear the phone or called busy. It has long been no secret that the starting line-up and changes are only executed with approval, but in situations like these, no one really assumes anything?

To give the owner a phone call and tell him that if it was empty, now something else is needed! Perhaps even the strategist himself had realized that the initial changes no longer made sense, perhaps he had even tried to call back, but there was no time left. The zealous enforcers rushed to put the original directives into practice, lest it be said of them that they were not standing upright!