Article by Adrian Duţă – Published Friday, May 29, 2026, 1:45 p.m. / Updated Friday, May 29, 2026, 2:00 p.m.
Before the tie for the Conference League, Ioan Ovidiu Sabău (58 years old), the former great player from Dinamo, said he was negatively surprised by Zeljko Kopic's team. The 1990 champion with the team from “Ștefan cel Mare” believes that his former club should have been on the podium.
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Dinamo – FCSB takes place from 20:30, on the “Arcul de Triumf”. The match will be liveTEXT on GSP.ro and transmitted on Prima Sport 1 and Digi Sport 1.
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Whoever wins goes to the Conference League preliminary round 2
In dialogue with GSP.ro, the former coach from U Cluj had an opinion against the current. He does not consider that Dinamo had a successful season.
On the contrary, he believes that the team has underperformed under the command of Zeljko Kopic. Neluțu Sabău says that the red-white team is bound to finish at least in 3rd place in the coming season.
Ioan Ovidiu Sabău: “Dinamo is not a team that will finish in 6th or 4th place. There is no way U Cluj will be ahead of you”
“Dinamo surprised me in a negative way this season. You can't help it, it's the second year like this. We keep talking about Dinamo, about projects, and it's the second year in a row that you're not on the podium. With all due respect, I have nothing to do with anyone, but Dinamo is not a team that once finished in 6th place, as it was last year, and now finishes in 4th place.
Something is happening there too, I say. There is no way U Cluj is ahead of you, with everything Dinamo means. This does not mean that U Cluj did not deserve it. He may even deserve to win the championship or a trophy because he looked sensational.
But Dinamo still has a different status. We hope that next year he will be on the podium or fight for the title. I say that the lot, at one point, as it looked, was about the level of FCSB, in terms of individual value.
I really appreciated who made the selection, because they brought players, created a balanced team, players who have quality.
Of course, there are still injuries, suspended players, ok, but at one point, taking the players individually, they rose to the level of the FCSB, which I think has the best batch”, said Ioan Ovidiu Sabău, for GSP.ro.
When Dinamo – FCSB play there is no favorite. It's a very important match, it will be full. It's a shame that they play on the Arc de Triomphe, it's incomprehensible. I think Dinamo has an asset that it has played important matches recently, in the play-offs it is another level.
Ioan Ovidiu Sabău, for GSP.ro
At Dinamo, I expect Gnahore and Cîrjan to make the difference, at FCSB I think Olaru is a very important player.
– Ioan Ovidiu Sabău, for GSP.ro
2 trophieswon Sabău as a Dinamo player, the title and the Cup in 1990
