FCSB – Metaloglobus 0-0. Mirel Rădoi (44 years old) debuted with the left on the bench of the Romanian champion. At the end, he provided the first reaction and identified the reasons why his team did not live up to expectations.
He explained that the players are in the process of adapting to his training methods, that he replaced Darius Olaru because he “suffocated” and that the players must understand that the result is not the most important thing in these conditions.
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“It would have been easy and pleasant if this had happened (no – to win on score, as the fans expected)but we must understand that, in these moments of pressure, not only the result matters, but also the expression on the field.
On the other hand, obviously for the opponent it is an extra motivation playing against us, in this competition, and every time a point can seem like a victory for them, and for us that we are moving away from the goal.
Everyone had expectations, but still there are things we can improve. I hope the next game will be a victory.
(0-0 with Metaloglobus when you were on the Craiova bench, 0-0 and now) We actually met twice. It doesn't mean that it's a complex or that I'm going to move to the third game and it's going to be 0-0.
Alarm signal? I think the alarm signal was the games until we were in the play-out, the qualification we lost. Those were the best alarms for us.
I somehow tried to discuss this with the boys, to tell them that in this competition every minute counts, not just the points, and the level of concentration can decrease through the lens of the opponent, because they were used to a different competition.
We suffer from positional attack. Let's hope that these days we will be able to change things”, said Mirel Rădoi, at Digi Sport.
Mirel Rădoi, about Chiricheș and Olaru, and what's next at FCSB: “I'm sure”
Next, Rădoi spoke about the situations of Chiricheș and Olaru, footballers who complained of certain medical problems during the game and were replaced.
“I couldn't say that the plans changed a lot after Chiricheș's injury. In terms of expression, I remained the same, but the fact that Baba entered Chiri's place was not a big impediment.
Olaru had suffocated and a change was needed, yes. I'm sure they need time to adjust, that's normal. And if we had kept the same players, with the same system, the exercises are different. To give you an exact time, I can't tell you, I'm not a magician. We hope that from training to training we will strengthen.
I don't think they should feel any extra pressure. The pressure of the result is enough. It doesn't matter if someone is thinking on the bench or someone else in the box. I don't think that's our concern. They need to understand that we still have some things to improve and still have good things“, Radoi added.
It has already been seen that until now, and even today, we suffered on the positional attack, especially in the first half. We were a little stubborn to get the ball into the goal. In the second half we tried to increase the intensity of shots on goal and crosses.
Towards the end of the game we also lost our patience, we were a bit confused, but somehow it's understandable. There is a lot of information for them as well, the pressure, the fact that these days the training was a little more intense and they also blamed a state of fatigue, but they will have to get used to it.
From tomorrow things will start to look different.– Mirel Radoithe FCSB coach
Mirel Rădoi, at the press conference: “I think that something that happens often in Romanian football was also seen today”
Radoi continued his speech at the press conference, where he spoke about “something that often happens in Romanian football”:
“A game as we expected, with few spaces. The opponent was aggressive and tried to close the areas. In the first half we had possession, but we didn't have the finishes we were talking about. In the second half we were more determined.
I didn't go overboard with the combos in their box, but I can't say I'm entirely satisfied with what I showed.
It's been hard training this time and we still have work to do. I think that something that often happens in Romanian football was also seen today. You play against an outnumbered defense and you have to find solutions. We exaggerated the static crosses and gave the defenders time to organize.
Crosses should have come more from the back. It's a problem that several teams in Ligue 1 have and we will have to work more on this aspect, even though we have tried to correct things before.
I wish I had more confidence and more courage. I'd rather lose the ball higher up trying to do something than always turn the ball over. It's possible that a lot of information has reached the players during this time and it still doesn't express itself exactly the way we want it to.
Time was short and they probably didn't absorb everything. We will analyze and see, including from their feedback, what we can improve.
“At Graovac it is a fracture of the nasal pyramid”
Unfortunately, some medical problems also arose. In Graovac, it is a fracture of the nasal pyramid. Tomorrow we will find out exactly what problem Chiricheș has, because during the match he didn't feel something clearly or didn't tell us.
We hope it's nothing serious and we don't have such unpleasant situations again. Bîrligea received two hits in the same place, he was stepped on the tendon and has some problems there.
It's not harder to reinvigorate the team than we expected, but playing at home I expected us to have a quieter expression. It felt like we were under pressure.
At times we played back and weren't under a lot of pressure, but it feels different now. It's something new for us and I think it marks him that we're not in the play-offs.
It's a strange feeling, because people expected the team to fight for the title, and now there is a risk of losing even the Conference positions. Everything that happened brought more pressure.
But we must be prepared for anything. We can't control everything. If we scored, the situation would probably be different, but we have to accept the evolution of the match. Every opponent will try to play like Metaloglobus did today.
I don't know exactly what UTA will do. It is a team that plays a lot and leaves more spaces. We will see what we manage to do and then what UTA will do as well.
I don't feel any special pressure and it wouldn't be a miracle to get the 7th place. It is a clear goal to play the play-off for the Conference”, explained Mirel Rădoi, at the conference.
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