“When you see me acting like a monkey, know that…”

The coach of CFR Cluj spoke highly of today's opponent, and then congratulated his players, especially Alibek Aliev. At the end, Daniel Pancu explained his “out of the ordinary” manifestations on the bench.

Daniel Pancu reacted after CFR – Metaloglobus 4-2: “You can see that Metaloglobus is a trained team”

Daniel Pancu started his speech by praising Mihai Teja's band: “I watch all the opponents. I watch their matches and it doesn't matter the league or anything. Metaloglobus a team that plays in many moments better than teams in the middle of the table. It's a team with low-paid players, a team with players lacking quality, but their principles, the way they leave, the way they build, how they find the third man, how they attack the spaces… OK, play and without pressure. You can play with deflections and heels. It is clear, in many moments, that it is a trained team. That's what I told Mihai. If he had quality players, he would get more in this championship”.

The coach of CFR Cluj continued by praising Alibek Aliev, the new attacker of CFR.

“Alibek is the profile I've been looking for. I told the management, more jokingly, from the beginning that we would win more as a team with him than with Louis Munteanu. Louis was fantastic when the game was deadlocked because he would come up with deflections and put it on the line. Alibek in the game economy is very important because he wins the duels, we can come face to face.

This did not happen before. This is exactly the profile I was looking for! It's very good for the first three games. Slimani also came in well, we also have Zahovic. We have high-quality strikers,” Daniel Pancu said on the Digi Sport Special show.

Now we can talk about the play-off, more halfheartedly. I also said yesterday at the conference: from now on we have an easier schedule. We came from 13-14 and played the play-off teams plus FCSB. We play each other, we can pronounce the word play-off. If we stay healthy, united, we will have turbulence because we will lose again. In football, the team that comes with momentum has the most advantage in the end
– Daniel Pancu

Asked by the reporter to name a quality and a defect as a coach, Daniel Pancu caused laughter.

“I still have a lot of faith in the players. That's a flaw. I've corrected it before, but I still have a lot of faith in the players.

When you see me on the sidelines acting like a monkey, know that it comes after some discussions with the players. Some simple things I say. Once, twice, three times… he's the player in the arena. When they do like monkeys, know that the action was spoken differently! I think it's a flaw that I trust. No one can control their emotions in football.

What I bring is the energy from training, for sure. The team does it in training. We can win 4-5 to nil last game, if I don't see them well in training… In the first half I didn't interveneand in the second half I did as I told you earlier. I wish I was calmer…“, Daniel Pancu said.

• With these points, CFR Cluj continues its gallop towards the play-off zone. The team from Gruia reached the 8th place, with 35 points, just one point away from the last place in the play-off, currently occupied by Oțelul Galati. The Danubians have a game down