Stjepan Tomas achieved his first success on the Steel bench and announced the team's goal: “That's what we want”

Article by Tudor Belivacă – Published on Saturday, 04 April 2026, 18:16 / Updated on Saturday, 04 April 2026 18:16
Stjepan Tomas, the coach of Oțelul Galați, achieved the first success on the Danubian bench, score 2-0 in front of Hermannstadt, in a match in stage #3 of the Superleague play-out.
After achieving the first success since replacing Laszlo Balint, the coach of Oțelul Galati congratulated his students and announced that the Danubians are fighting for a place in the first two teams at the top of the play-out, even if the team from Galati does not have the right to European cups and cannot be involved in the fight for the Conference League play-off.
Stjepan Tomas reacted after Steel – Hermannstadt 2-0: “I realized from the first minute”
“I want to congratulate my players for this win! We needed this success since we were coming off a bad run of results.
This win gives us confidence for the next games. I could tell from the first minute that the boys really want to win this game and take all 3 points.
They fought, they were aggressive, they won duels and they have to continue in this way in the next matches.
Ciobanu is an important player for us, just like everyone else. I want to congratulate him because he scored very nicely from the free kick and because he was very close to scoring again.
Now we have to rest, then we will prepare very well for the next match against FCSB. I hope we get a positive result.
We want to rank in the first two places in the ranking. We have a good group. If we continue like this, we will rank first”, said the coach of Oțelul Galați, according to digisport.ro.
It was only the second game on the bench for Stjepan Tomas. In the debut match, he lost against Unirea Slobozia, score 1-2
At this moment, Oțelul Galati is in 4th place in the play-out, only three points away from the first two places, FCSB and FC Botoșani. UTA Arad can climb to the top of the play-off if they win their duel in this stage with Metaloglobus, scheduled for Sunday at 15:00.




