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“Do you still trust management?” » Costel Gâlcă answered briefly, after admitting the “humiliation”

Costel Gâlcă admitted that it will be increasingly difficult for Rapid to finish in a place that will allow them to go to the European cups, after DinamoRapid 3-1.

Asked if he still had support from management, the technician replied: “Ask management if I have support until the end.”

VIDEO. Costel Gâlcă, after Dinamo – Rapid: “We don't know how to stay on the field anymore”

“A humiliation, a shame. Because you can't work for so many months and seem like you've forgotten football, that we don't know how to stay on the pitch. I told them it wouldn't be easy, even if Dinamo came after 120 minutes. They took advantage of the set-pieces, that's what they scored. They came out well on the counter-attack. When they could control, have possession, they did it quite well. Without ambition, attitude and without respecting what we do is hard.

With Aioani it depended a lot on what he felt and what he wanted. He warmed up, after that it was up to him to go in or not. It was not forced by anyone. We wanted him to play, he is a goalkeeper who helps us a lot. He, I suspect, felt something in the heating, from what I was told, and tried to enter. I wanted him to play, but I never said he had to, I prefer one who is fit. It was important for us to play.

It's about respecting the position, being focused in what you're doing. If you don't get it right once, it doesn't mean you shouldn't try to take the positions we work on in training. We are often slow. If we don't have continuity, people between the lines, it's hard to get the ball forward. I'm disappointed, they trained well.

I told you where we suffer, we changed by introducing Dobre as a striker, we expected to have executions, to take players into the final third, to finish. In the past matches we completed very little. Moruțan was brought in with everyone's approval. He needs the help of the team. There is always pressure in football, wherever you are”, said Costel Gâlcă, at ​​Prima Sport.

It's normal to understand the supporters' frustrations: they give everything, but they also want to receive from the team. There are many matches in which I didn't bring them joy, that's normal. It's not a missed season, but it's getting harder.

I think we totally need to look different. There are four games left, we can't look like this one. From my point of view, I haven't looked worse than that in any game. Listen to me, I didn't see Ciobotariu nervous, maybe after he passed me.

You have to ask him why he's nervous, it must have been because of the change. All kinds of things were said, that we are in chaos, I have also seen it before, but this did not happen. I hope it will continue to be good, but not like this. I don't know about Petrila, I suspect he has something.

– Costel Gâlcă, coach Rapid

Costel Gâlcă, also disappointed at the press conference: “Ask the management if they catch the next match as well”

We are disappointed. I expected something else. I had a very good week. You can't concede a goal and then completely lose control of the match. I don't understand why I didn't do enough of the positions I worked on in training and why there was that fear of taking the opponent out of pressure. I didn't have the necessary positions either.

I didn't expect that. I expected us to be able to win, to really enter the fight for Europe. There are supporters who support us, they come everywhere, they come in huge numbers, they are frustrated and they deserve to be happy after the game.

Aioani felt something since yesterday, in training. He hoped he would be able to play, he tried, but it was not possible. I'm more unhappy that I didn't play what I prepared. If we were here for a month or two, I would say more, but like this… ask the players. In training, it's quite good,” Costel Gâlcă said at the press conference.

I don't know if Aioani's exit also affected us a little bit, but whatever happens, we have to be able to come back, sit down and play what we have prepared. We have to act as a team. There are still four matches, but many things have to change. We can't go on like this.

Dinamo didn't surprise me at all. We expected him to play with five defenders as well. I also saw them with Craiova, in the Cup, they did quite well, they were close to qualifying, but we were not 100% sure that they would do it.

I don't know anything about Petrila. Whether he went in or made a mistake, we took three goals basically from set pieces, but as a team we needed to play a lot better, have more confidence and be able to have a good game. I know it's not easy to come in from the bench, especially when you're young.

Ask management if they catch the 100th game too. If it's something, as I've seen it come up, you'll find out. It's about work. From my point of view, it is not a lost battle yet. Yes, it's a tough time, but we have to keep fighting so we can reach our goal. It's much harder with each passing match.

I look at the work that I and the staff put in… They also stayed in the first three places for a long time. I haven't seen the banners, I can't tell you, who knows what reasons they have. I have said so many times: there are supporters who come everywhere in very large numbers and it is normal for them to be disappointed, because they have very high expectations from us.

– Costel Gâlcă, coach Rapid

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