Article by Alexandru Tomuțiu – Published Friday, May 15, 2026 11:07 p.m. / Updated Friday, May 15, 2026 11:11 p.m.
FC Arges – Rapid 2-2. Former international great Ilie Dumitrescu gave his opinion on what happened in the Giulești camp this season.
After the match in Mioveni, Pașcanu said that everything broke after the failure with U Cluj, 1-2, in the third round of the play-off.
Ilie Dumitrescu gave the right to the central defender, saying that Rapid no longer had the strength to overcome the difficult moments in the play-offs, as it did in the regular season, when the Giulești team met lower ranked teams.
Ilie Dumitrescu, after FC Argeș – Rapid: “I see a team without important leaders”
“Gâlcă was not taken into account, that's what I understood. What he conveyed was never done. I didn't understand that they were privileged. At the moment when certain disciplinary problems arise, somehow the management should be on the same line with the coach, as it was in the case of Baroan, when he was excluded.
It is a more complex phenomenon. I stand by what Pașcanu said, this is the truth about what is happening at Rapid. After a failure you have no chance to come back, because it is another level of competition, other opponents. In the regular season, after losing to a stronger opponent, they would recover the next stage with a weaker one. This happened every season at Rapid.
After the first play-off stage they were in first place. You lose a game, and things go in that area. I see a team without important leadersit matters a lot in a play-off to have, we'll see in the teams that play the match for the championship, Craiova and U Cluj”, said Ilie Dumitrescu, at Digi Sport.
