Article by Adrian Duţă – Published Sunday, November 30, 2025, 07:17 / Updated Sunday, November 30, 2025 07:29
Gabriel Torje, the former player from Dinamo, raged after the match won by “dogs” with Oțelul, score 1-0. The former international was disturbed by the statements of Laszlo Balint, the coach of the Galatians.
At the interview at the end of the game at the National Arena, Laszlo Balint criticized the refereeing of Iulian Călin, accusing him of letting the Dynamo players waste time.
After listening to him, Torje recalled the round match between the two, won by Oțelul 2-1, when Balint's players would have been the ones who took time.
Gabriel Torje: “Dinamo did exactly what they had to do”
“What is revolting is that he says of the referee that he let the Dynamo players run out of time. In the round match it was Mr. Kovacs, Szabolcs Kovacs, who didn't give a penalty for Dinamo, who left Oțelul in the last 20 minutes, 2-1 for Oțelul. There were two yellow fouls and he did not sanction them.
Now let's not forget that… Dinamo did exactly what a team should do when they feel they can't score a goal anymore, they cared about the result, they were pragmatic, if they had to stay down, they stayed down.
On Monday or Tuesday, only he, because he will analyze the match, will see these things. The rest will be forgotten. The three points that reached Dinamo are important,” said Gabriel Torje, quoted by digisport.ro.
I blamed the referee for allowing timeouts. I told him civilly that in the last 20 minutes it seemed to me that he allowed a lot of timeouts. At one point he waited a minute to make the substitution, instead of letting the game go. That's it. And we played in 10 almost 2 minutes when we were injured.
He is a referee I respect. There were no hard decisions, even if it was played without VAR. Dinamo used all means to achieve their goal and that says a lot about our performance.
– Laszlo Balint, Oțelul coach
