Article by Adrian Duţă – Published Friday, January 23, 2026, 00:45 / Updated Friday, January 23, 2026 00:50
Dinamo Zagreb – FCSB 4-1. The former international Ilie Dumitrescu analyzed in harsh terms the performance of the champion of Romania, who left the Croatian field humiliated.
The former big striker of Stella had higher expectations from FCSB's defence, which had Graovac, Ngezana and Dawa, center backs, plus Radunovic, left back, in the first 11.
Ilie Dumitrescu made an indirect reference to coaches Charalambous and Pintilii, talking about the red-blue defense tactics.
Ilie Dumitrescu: “Unacceptable, you can't present yourself like that!”
“At the beginning we were analyzing the starting formula and we saw that there were 3 central defenders on the bottom line, plus Radunovic, and we thought that this team would have a solid game on the defensive phase. Plus two defenders, you thought that we would cover the areas very well, that we would not be discovered.
There are very big mistakes of interpretation, I mean the first two goals, which mattered enormously in the economy of the game. This hesitant start made the team suffer, lose confidence. We are talking about extremely important players who did not rise to a good level.
We entered the game through Bîrligea, I thought we would have a good reaction after the break. But there are very big deficiencies and we are thinking about how to work on the defensive phase from a tactical point of view. I've seen some stuff that's unacceptable, you can't present yourself like that. You can't treat phases like that, you can't look like that“, declared Ilie Dumitrescu, according to digisport.ro.
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