Nicolae Stanciu, victory on the day Mircea Lucescu announced the squad for the play-off against Turkey

This result came on the very day when the coach Mircea Lucescu announced the team with which the Romanian national team will approach the qualifying round for the World Championship this summer.

• Turkey – Romania will be played on Thursday, March 26, from 19:00, match broadcast by Prima TV. If we win, we play the qualification final against Slovakia/Kosovo on March 31, 2026.

• Gazeta Sporturilur will have 6 experienced reporters in Istanbul, who will send the most important information, reports and a series of multimedia correspondence.

Stanciu, the first victory since returning to China

Returning to China at the beginning of this year, Nicolae Stanciu was a full-time player in the match in stage number 3 of the domestic championship, being the first won by Dalian Yingbo this season.

Despite the fact that the first half was balanced, the hosts opened the scoring shortly after the start of the second half. Frank Acheampong opened the scoring in the 47th minute of the duel, establishing the final result of the game, 1-0.

• This result comes after 2 defeats in a row, in which the Romanian midfielder ticked all the minutes

• One stage before today's duel, Nicolae Stanciu managed to score the first goal since returning to China

Following this result, Stanciu's team is in 5th place in the first Chinese league, with 3 points obtained in 3 stages.

The ranking from China, Stanciu's team in 5th place / photo: flashscore.ro

Convened by Mircea Lucescu

The Romanian midfielder is one of the players that Mircea Lucescu called up for the World Championship qualifiers in the United States of America, Canada and Mexico.

• porter: Ionut RADU (Celta de Vigo | Spain, 7/0), Marian AIOANI (FC Rapid 1923, 0/0), Mihai POPA (CFR Cluj, 0/0)

• defense: Andrei RAțIU (Rayo Vallecano | Spain, 36/2), Deian SORESCU (Gaziantep FK | Turkey, 23/0), Radu DRĂGUȘIN (Tottenham | England, 27/1), Andrei BURCĂ (Yunnan Yukun | China, 44/1), Virgil GHIȚ (Hannover 96 | Germany, 8/1), Adrian RUS (Universitatea Craiova, 22/1), Andrei COUBIȘ (Universitatea Cluj, 0/0), Nicușor BANCU (Universitatea Craiova, 50/2), Kevin CIUBOTARU (Hermannstadt, 1/0)

• midfielders: Vladimir SCRECIU (Universitatea Craiova, 6/0), Vlad DRAGOMIR (Pafos | Cyprus, 5/0), Răzvan MARIN (AEK Athens | Greece, 72/12), Nicolae STANCIU (Dalian Yingbo | China, 84/15), Florin TĂNASE (FCSB, 26/5), Ianis HAGI (Alanyaspor | Turkey, 51/8), Dennis MAN (PSV | Netherlands, 43/11), Alexandru DOBRE (FC Rapid 1923, 5/0), Valentin MIHĂILĂ (Caykur Rizespor | Turkey, 33/5), Claudiu PETRILA (FC Rapid 1923, 2/0), Ștefan BAIARAM (Universitatea Craiova, 2/1)

• ATTACKERS: Daniel BÎRLIGEA (FCSB, 7/2), David MICULESCU (FCSB, 6/0), Marius COMAN (UTA Arad, 0/0)