FCSB – Oțelul Galati 4-0. Mihai Popescu (32 years old), the stopper of the red-blues, reacted after the categorical victory obtained by his team. The footballer was started for the first time after 6 months and scored the second goal.
extremely happy, Popescu he's thinking about the next matches, but also about the tie for the Conference League. The stopper is convinced that if FCSB will keep it from victory to victory, Mirel Rădoi will continue in the summer on the technical bench.
He only had words of praise for Radoi and explained that he has not yet signed the contract extension with the team sponsored by Becali.
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“We prepared the match very well, we prepared quite well this week. But the most important thing is that we had a reaction after the match in Botoșani, and that's what makes us happy the most.
(You were appointed after six months, how did you receive this news?) With great joy, with confidence. I tried to do what was asked of me and I say I managed to have a good match tonight. First of all, I'm glad that I'm slowly getting closer to my pre-injury form.
A victory was needed after the match in Botoșani, after the defeat suffered there. We needed three points. Honestly, it didn't even matter if we were winning 1-0 or one goal away, but I'm glad it was such a clear victory and we hope to keep it that way.
When you win by such a margin and after, shall I say, an extraordinary first half, it gives us morale for the games to come and we try to keep on this upward slope.
We are trying to finish first in this play-out. We are starting to realize, to realize where we are and how tough the games are here and we are trying to win them to finish first.
A dam is always hard. That it's relegation, that it's going to the Conference or, I know, a game about to be eliminated, so to speak, there will always be extra pressure and there are 50-50 chances.
But we hope to bring our contribution, first of all to get there, then win that tie and move on.
We will have to convince Mr. Rădoi, as we did in the first half. With such an evolution, with such matches, I think it's the only thing we can convince him to stay: let's look as good as in the first half and then we'll give him something to think about”, said Mihai Popescu, in the mixed area.
Radoi is a demanding coach and a young coach who puts into practice or tells us what to put into practice. He talks to us a lot and that helps us a lot and we are starting to look better and better.
I saw that it was written that I was leaving, that I signed the extension… There have been no discussions so far, but I still have two months, three months until the summer, until June. I'm waiting to finish the championship, after which we will have another discussion and see where we take it.
– Mihai Popescuthe central defender of FCSB
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