Claudiu Niculescu took all the blame on himself, after the failure against the leader + War announcement before the match with Rapid

Slobozia suffered the second failure in a row, after the one in the match with Dinamo, and Niculescu took all the blame on him. He considered that the team fought as hard as they could against the 1st place holder, but the mistakes made by his students were decisive, carefully speculated by Olteni.

Despite this result, the coach from Ialomi is optimistic and thinks about a positive result in the match with Rapid, in the next round. The objective is for his team to collect as much as possible before entering the play-out.

The reaction of Claudiu Niculescu, after the failure in the match with Craiova

“Deserved victory. We met I think the best team in Ligue 1. We faced them until the first goal, but the positioning mistakes cost us. When you make mistakes against such an opponent, you pay. I am responsible for this defeat.

Unfortunately, no more could be done this evening. We have to move on. Another difficult match is coming up, against Rapid. There are two more matches from which I hope we will come out well. The play-out is coming up and I think it will be a tough fight to stay in the first league. I'm not worried, but we need to improve all aspects.

I would not like to talk too much and go into details. We lost to the first place team. In terms of desire, at least, the boys have shown that they are up to the same standards, but again, it is a valuable, high-quality team that charges you when you make mistakes. It was a match without history. We wanted to take points from these matches, today and in the last match. We have to accumulate points.

We will also try against Rapid, an equally difficult match, and then we will see where we are. Since I came I said there are five hellish games to come, we meet almost all the play-off teams. We managed to win a match with Farul, but now we have no more points. For me, the remaining matches are important, but the fight will be in the play-out.

Craiova and Dinamo are two teams that are significantly equal in value. As the fight in the play-off will be fierce, so will it be in the play-out. But our job is from 7th down. Above is the job of those who will qualify in the play-off”, said Claudiu Niculescu, after the match, on the show “Fotbal Club”, from Digi Sport.

Images from the match Slobozia – Craiova 0-3

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