Article by Daniel Grigore – Published on Wednesday, 04 February 2026 23:20 / Updated on Wednesday, 04 February 2026 23:23
Ianis Zicu (42 years old), the coach of Farul, commented the defeat with Dinamo, 2-3challenging his players to motivate themselves to win the remaining 5 games of the regular season. Zicu took advantage of the appearance on the microphone to complain about the program again.
Farul led Dinamo twice, 1-0 after Radaslavescu's goal in the 25th minute, 2-1 after Larie converted a penalty in '71, but was defeated in a match essential for the play-off dream.
Coach Ianis Zicu qualified this failure as painful, showing himself disappointed with the way certain moments of the game were treated.
In the flash-interview, the former midfielder complained again about his team's schedule, given that Farul will enter the field again, in Slobozia, 62 and a half hours after the final whistle of the game with Dinamo.
Ianis Zicu, after Farul – Dinamo 2-3: “Ugly, that's the word!”
“It's clear that it's a painful defeat. If we had managed some moments better we would have discussed this result like this. We conceded a goal just before the break from a set piece, a goal that we could have avoided if we were more careful and intervened, Buzu could have rejected there.
It went into halftime with 1-1, we came back, made it 2-1, but unfortunately at the end, with the fresh players introduced along the way, we were not at the level we thought we were, although we introduced players who did not play that much in the last game.
One of the changes made was forced, Pellegrini was already in his third game and is a bit busy. I had no other solutions, so I had to improvise, let Gustavo play. He comes after 7 months of activity and played two matches in 3 days.
“We thank them» to those who scheduled us because Gustavo can play another game in 48 hours. I find it nasty – that's the word – nasty on the part of the people who made the appointments.
Tomorrow we wake up and in 48 hours we play, because they didn't even put the match in the evening, but at 13:00. It's not normal! OK, teams making playoff appearances are scheduled properly. I think one extra day could be found. It's ugly, honestly, and I'm disappointed. But we have no power, we go to play.
As frustrating as this game has been, there are 5 games to go and I sincerely hope… I say it so the players can hear it, if we have strength and manliness we wake up, win 5 games out of 5 and catch the play-off.
If we make it, we're there. If not, we fight for 7-8 places. This is the only option, let's transform today's disappointment and achieve in the next 5 stages the results that no one thinks possible”, said Zicu to PrimaSport.
Farul remained at 34 points, 5 below the first play-off position holder, FC Botoșani, who will play FCSB on Thursday evening.
VIDEO with the winning goal in Farul – Dinamo 2-3
