Article by Maria Olteanu – Published on Tuesday, 02 December 2025, 22:01 / Updated on Tuesday, 02 December 2025 22:04
Costel Gâlcă (53 years old), the coach of Rapid, drew the first conclusions after his team lost away on Tuesday evening, in the second stage of the Romanian Betano Cup groups, score 1-2, on the field of FC Argeș. He didn't seem upset at all, although after this result his team risks being eliminated from the competition.
The Giulești team opened the scoring at Mioveni, but then faded away, and in the second half the hosts took the lead, and then Bolgado completely buried his team, seeing the straight red card.
Rapid remains with 3 points in group A, again the mission of Gâlcă's formation gets complicated one stage before the end. At the moment, Giulești are in second place, but CFR Cluj, which is third, has a game in hand, and in the last stage they have a direct match.
Costel Gâlcă's conclusions after the failure with FC Argeș
Despite the failure, Gâlcă did not declare himself disappointed with the result, did not scold his students and said that he will have the first discussion with them only tomorrow. He did not want to find a specific culprit for the failure and stated that he still hopes to qualify for the quarter-finals of the competition.
Next, in the competition, the first 2 teams from each group go.
“We had to come with a plus from the bench, we knew that FC Argeș is a good team, with aggression, they won because they were better.
The attitude I had in some moments bothered me, you can always make mistakes, it was an important match for us, we could have scored 6 points, we also had 1-0.
They are a team that verticalizes, they put pressure, we had big spaces and we could have scored one more time. I don't regret the first 11, I also talked to them about what I think, they can enter any match, I also trust those who play less.
The central defenders had a weak match, at the end of the match he recovered, we didn't have that balance, the duels, the placement, too many mistakes.
I don't know, I didn't see the phase with Bolgado well, it was probably a mistake of his to interpret, he made the decision while on the field.
We have one more game and we have to go and win, there is an away game coming up, a tough game, the objective is to go further in the Romanian Cup.
We haven't spoken anything at the moment and the dressing room is small, we'll talk tomorrow, there are complicated moments, we have to see how we manage, not to shout too loud, there has to be a balance, you fall and you get up again”. said Costel Gâlcă, after the match, on the microphone of Prima Sport.
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After the failure with FC Argeș, Rapid has little chance to qualify for the quarterfinals. If CFR Cluj gets at least one point with Metaloglobus, then the people from Giulești are obliged to win against the Transylvanians in order to move on. Without victory in the last round, qualification will be compromised for the people of Giulești.
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CFR Cluj – Rapid will take place in February, in the last stage of the group.
Ranking in Group A
