Article by Tudor Belivacă – Published Friday, April 17, 2026, 11:05 p.m. / Updated Friday, April 17, 2026, 11:09 p.m.
Daniel Pancu, the coach of CFR Cluj, commented on the dramatic victory achieved by his team in extra time against FC Argeș, score 1-0, in a match in stage #5 of the Superliga play-off.
Daniel Pancu congratulated his students, but also his opponents, and conveyed that he is ready to continue to reshuffle the team. He pointed out that there will be more terminated contracts. Most recently, the contract of Islam Slimani, the striker brought “with a song” to the Gruia formation, was terminated.
Daniel Pancu reacted after FC Argeș – CFR Cluj: “It's the most beautiful victory”
“Today we played against a good opponent, good, very good, good team. Very good physically, very good in duels and well organized. We got three huge points that give us the possibility to think of a miracle, to beat ourselves up.
It is the most beautiful victory because it is obtained at the last second, under some special conditions. You see that the process of “venting” the batch from CFR continues. They were in the winter, now you hear from a player every week. A coach to make his mark on a team's game talks about unity, atmosphere.
Maybe I'll have another 11 wins in a row and I'll feel that things are not right in terms of atmosphere, unity and I'll take action. I had no way to take action, but if I did I would have more points in the play-offs.
It doesn't matter what measures to take now. Contracts have been terminated before, they will be terminated again. The signal was given at Botoșani cwhen I left without half the batch. We were numerous then. We left with sick players: Korenica, Cordea left in the 20th minute, Fică also entered. With such players you can go to football and the God of football will intervene to win in the last seconds.
Only at Rapid did I manage to create a batch. I had a year and a half. There the sieve sifted primarily for character. The team played fantastically and totally represented me. Here we are on the way, on the way, on the way. We see where we will stop. There is no topic related to my coming to Rapid, we are playing over two stages, we cannot comment.
The victory was important because we have some peace. If we don't win today. we were thinking about 3-4 place. This way we have a good tone and we are preparing, but someone has to beat U Cluj in the end. If Dinamo does not succeed, we are the last to beat them and we will prepare very well for the derby. We still have a little hope, if we didn't win we had no hope“, said Daniel Pancu during the flash interview on the Football Club show from Digi Sport.
Ranking in the Superliga play-off
