Article by Maria Olteanu – Published Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 9:09 p.m. / Updated Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 9:09 p.m.
Filipe Coelho (45 years old), University coach Craiovaprefaced the game with Dinamofrom the semifinals of the Romanian Cup, and is optimistic that his team will reach the last act of the competition. In addition, striker Assad Al-Hamlawi had nothing but praise for the opponent and promised the fans a great result.
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Dinamo – Craiova, in the semifinals of the Romanian Cup, will be played on Thursday, April 23, from 20:30. The match will be liveTEXT on GSP.ro and on TV on Prima Sport 1 and Digi Sport 1;
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The first team to qualify for the final of the Romanian Cup is U Cluj, which went to penalties against FC Argeș;
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The final of the Romanian Cup will be played in Sibiu, on May 13.
Filipe Coelho, before the match with Dinamo: “We know each other very well”
“It's a tough game, we've worked hard in this competition to reach the semi-finals, we'll try to qualify for the final. Now we will try to give our best to reach the final. We know that we will have a good opponent, with a good coach, I hope that there will be an extraordinary atmosphere in the stadium.
It's a cup match, it will be different because only one team qualifies. We know each other very well, they will definitely try to prepare certain things differently. We don't have much time to prepare other things, but we will try to give our best and see what will happen during the match.
We had a short period to prepare for this match, we only had one training session with the whole squad. At the beginning of the week we tried to recover the players and tomorrow we will see who will be fit to play.
We try to keep the same atmosphere in the dressing room, it's definitely a lot easier when we come after a win. We have to be balanced, because sometimes we can lose, but we have to keep doing our work to be able to achieve good things in the end.
We always focus on the present, all the time, day by day and match by match, we'll see what will happen”, said Filipe Coelho before the game with Dinamo.
It will be a difficult match, Dinamo is a good team, we will give everything, either we will win or we will lose. Dinamo is a good team in general, they made the matches difficult for all opponents, I think they are very good when they attack in depth, with their strikers, we will try to control the match and play as usual, use our advantages.
The atmosphere in the dressing room is good, we are in a good mood. It's amazing to see how much the fans support us every game, keep doing it and we'll give it our best.
– Assad Al-Hamlawi, Craiova striker
