Article by Romeo Ene – Published on Monday, 27 April 2026 22:48 / Updated on Monday, 27 April 2026 23:05
FC Arges – University of Craiova 0-1. The footballers from Pitesti explain the poor form of the last period. The newly promoted reached five consecutive matches without a win. Mario Tudose (21 years old) and Vadim Rața (32) drew conclusions after tonight's setback.
Tudose claims that Filipe Coelho's team is the best team in the Superliga and has a chance to make the event, while the Moldovan blamed the failure on elimination from the Cup.
FC Argeș lost on penalty kicks against U Cluj 6 days before and missed qualifying for the final.
FC Argeș footballers, conclusions after the failure with Craiova: “We were a little demoralized”
“We tried to equalize, but we didn't succeed. I think that, at the moment, Craiova is the most fit and valuable team in terms of lot and value. He is also in the final of the Cup, he has a chance to make the event, I wish them success, but I am very sorry that we did not manage to win tonight.
It's the end of the season and even if we still feel some fatigue, we have to raise our level ourselves, that's how we do more. This is the level in the play-offs, we knew what was waiting for us, it's a shame, we only lost at the limit, 1-0. Each time we lost 1-0. Tonight the game was written in the first half”, said Mario Tudose, at Digi Sport.
Rață claims that elimination from the Cup weighed a lot in the perspective of tonight's game:
“We were a bit demoralized after that elimination in the semi-final, we really wanted to reach the final and probably after that game we recovered a bit hard, we created a few chances, we could have drawn a draw, but that was it.
That's how it seems to me, the elimination was a moral blow, psychological I think more. We talked a little in the dressing room, the boys were under pressure, with low morale, disappointed. In the second half we tried to play a little football and put pressure on the Craiova team.
We have to move on, we have four more matches in the championship, we will give everything, it will not be easy for anyone with us. We have two draws, one win, three defeats, but all these were the same score, 0-1.
We are a team that never gives up, we fight with anyone, they have their goals, we have our goals and we want to finish as high as possible in the ranking”, said Vadim Rață.
We still have four very important matches, we are playing against our opponents, Rapid, Dinamo, CFR, but we will try to collect points in each match and I hope to finish as high as possible, maybe we will succeed in 4th place, a playoff or something.
– Vadim Rațaafter FC Argeș – Craiova
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