“It looks like a team from another planet”

Romania's vice-champion has tied nine consecutive victories, and qualifying for the play-off is closer than ever.

The discussion about the course of the CFR came in the context in which Dinamo will meet it away in the last stage of the regular season.

Andrei Nicolescu, about the progress of CFR Cluj: “I don't even know which team has achieved something like this before”

Nicolescu claims that Dinamo has a complicated schedule in the final two legs of the regular season. On March 1, they will receive a visit from FC Argeș, a team that still needs three points to be mathematically in the play-off, and in the last stage they go to Transylvania.

“Now I was sitting and watching from this perspective. With FC Argeș it will be very difficult, because it will probably be their confirmation match for the play-offs. And with CFR I don't even know what else to say.

It seems like a team from another planet right now. Nine straight wins. I don't even know which team has managed something like that before and what happened to that team after one season. I told Pancu to be good and to succeed, but after the match with us it happened”, stated Andrei Nicolescu, for fanatik.ro.

Daniel Pancu's students tied 9 consecutive victories in the championship, something that no other team had done for 5 seasons.

The peak, the last similar series, of 9 victories in a row in the championship, was also recorded by Cluj, in the 2021/2022 season, under the command of Dan Petrescu, between stages 13 – 21.

The 9 teams that CFR Cluj defeated

• CFR Cluj – Csikszereda 3-1

• FC Botoșani – CFR Cluj 0-1

• CFR Cluj – Oțelul Galati 1-0

• FCSB – CFR Cluj 1-4

• CFR Cluj – Metaloglobus 4-2

• UTA Arad – CFR Cluj 0-1

• CFR Cluj – U Cluj 3-2

• Hermannstadt – CFR Cluj 0-1

• CFR Cluj – Petrolul 2-1

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