Article by Cosmin Nistor – Published Monday, January 26, 2026 20:09 / Updated Monday, January 26, 2026 20:09
Robert Ilyeș (51 years old), the technician of the Ciucans from Csikszereda, spoke after the game lost in Galați, score 0-3 with Oțelul, about his team's performance, but also about the blunder of the goalkeeper Eduard Pap, from the beginning of the match.
The game was interrupted in the 81st minute, due to a power outage that affected the stadium at night. After a good few minutes of break, during which the spectators turned on the flashes of their phones, the match resumed and ended with the clear victory of the Danubians. Steel thus remains in the fight for the play-offs, after round number 23.
Robert Ilyeș, after Oțelul – Csikszereda: “There are moments and moments in football”
“There are moments and moments in football. Sometimes one doesn't make a mistake, the other makes a mistake. And he played good games. I'm more upset about the free-kick phase where we messed up, they blocked, and that blunder happened. We are moving forward, the next game is coming and we have to be with the team. I trust them and I know we will do good things.”
Eduard Pap: “I accept my mistake”
And Eduard Pap, the goalkeeper of the formation from Miercurea Ciuc, offered a reaction after the match, talking both about the mistake committed and about the next match, against the FCSB champions.
“It was a bad game, I mean a tough game, against a good team. We started badly, unfortunately, because of a very big mistake of mine, which I own. The start of the game and that mistake decided the fate of the match. After that we tried to come back, but it was very difficult for us. I'm sorry, it was my mistake. We still have a lot of games to go and we have to escape from relegation.
My foot also ran a little, it was my mistake. I apologize to my colleagues and promise that I will do everything in my power to prevent it from happening again, starting from the next match.
It's a hard defeat to digest after the victory in the last stage, but we can't turn things around. We wipe with the sponge and think about the match with FCSB. I never thought we would win at the green table. We had to do everything in our power to win on the pitch. We failed and we move on.
FCSB is an injured team with valuable players who can always add and change the fate of a match. We think about what we have to do, not what they do”, declared the goalkeeper of the Ciucanians.
Next is the trip to the National Arena
Csikszereda was coming after the 1-0 victory against the revelation of the season, FC Botoșani, but will have a difficult mission in the next stage, at the National Arena, against FCSB.
The Romanian champions are going through a season below expectations, being five points away from the last play-off spot, with seven stages remaining. For the red-blues, it could be the first season in which they miss the presence in the top 6 since the introduction of the current competitive system, in the 2015/2016 season. FCSB comes after three consecutive defeats in official competitions, four if the friendly with Beşiktaş is taken into account.
