“You feel like smelling yourself, see if you smell bad!”

In the duel in group C, Valentin Dumitrache opened the scoring for the hosts, in the 45th+3rd minute, but the first-division side reversed the result in the second half, through Atanas Trică ('50) and Taiwo ('90+1).

Valentin Stan, the coach of Metal, was left with a bitter taste at the end, irritated especially by the phase in the 32nd minute, in which the ball fell on Miguel Silva's armwithout the “central” Vlad Baban or the “assistant” on that side, Daniel Vlase, intervening.

Back from U Cluj, the coach made a fuss: “The referee has an attitude of wanting to smell you, to see if you smell bad!”

At that point, the score was 0-0. It is not clear from the replays whether Silva was on the line or outside the box when the ball landed on his arm. Valentin Stan protested vehemently, so the “central” awarded him the yellow card. We remind you that the VAR system was not used in this match.

The ball landed on Silva's arm, above the elbow

“I want to point out that we had an absolutely obvious penalty. From our bench it was seen. I don't know how the linesman could not see something like that. It's hard to understand how the linesman could not see a handball on the left back close to him. There was no group of players that affected his visibility.

I made the performance to take only yellow. Every time I was refereed by Vlad Băban, I only got red. It is very difficult to talk to you. I think he is scolded, he does not talk to the 2nd and 3rd League. He has an attitude of, simply, you feel like smelling yourself, to see if you smell bad.

He gave me a yellow and left. He's right, I get yellow for protests. But you don't come with a defiant attitude like you've had all these years. The fact that you don't give a clear penalty, obviously… everyone saw it,” Stan “thundered”, quoted by digisport.ro.