Article by Romeo Ene – Published on Monday, 09 March 2026 22:43 / Updated on Monday, 09 March 2026 22:43
CFR Cluj – Dinamo 2-0. Daniel Pancu (48), the coach of Transylvania, offered a warrior reaction after his team reached 11 consecutive victories and finished in 4th place in the regular season. In the first stage will meet the rival “U” away.
Pancu he clearly and bluntly supports the fact that CFR set out to win the championship, taking into account the impressive streak.
The technician, suspended for this match, is convinced that his players are the best in Romania, and the title is the main objective.
Daniel Pancu, statements after CFR Cluj – Dinamo 2-0: “We can only think about the championship”
“I watched the match from the box. It's good that we won, I had emotions. Cristiano (Bergodi) has been suspended since the episode here, and U Cluj won all the matches. Andone was suspended, Argeș didn't lose, and I said: “Well, I won't be different from them”. It was an important signal for me, and that calmed me down until the end.
Again we have a problem, because the game suffers when we make changes. I have a grudge, even if it's 11 games in a row, which is something unbelievable, even when, at times, we didn't play far from our full potential. Even today there were moments like that.
The grandeur of the club, the trophies won, offices full of trophies, I think they also have for the best storekeeper and the best cook. I feel that no matter what happens, the opponents have nothing to do with us. We can only think about the championship, I'm talking in the most serious way possible.
The objective is to win the championship! We measured our strengths, scored 40 points, played with all the teams, only FC Argeș beat us. With the rest we didn't lose, the rest were victories, equal with Craiova, and we can't help but think about the title.
We are playing U Cluj now, which seems to me to be the second most fit team after us. It will be nice. We saw how the atmosphere was here, and now we will see what it will be like at their place”, said Daniel Pancu, at Prima Sport.
The experience of the club and the players are our advantages. They are players who know how to win. The club would have had very big problems if we had been in the play-outs.
Now I said it for the first time, and for three weeks I have been telling the players that we are the best team in Romania and that our goal is the championship.
– Daniel Pancuthe coach of CFR Cluj
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