Article by Aurelian Botezatu – Published Friday, April 17, 2026, 08:23 / Updated Friday, April 17, 2026 08:26
Celta Vigo also lost the return of the “quarter” with Freiburg, 1-3, after 0-3 in the first leg, and was eliminated from the Europa League.
Ionuț Radu's team also conceded three goals on Thursday, as in Freiburg, but it must be emphasized that the goalkeeper of the Romanian national team had absolutely no fault for the goals. Matanovic's volley stretched as far as he could, but he couldn't reach the ball, and at 0-2, Suzuki's shot from the box was deflected. And at 0-3, the restart of the same Suzuki, from a crowded box, was perfectly placed, near the left bar of the Celta goalkeeper.
However, the daily newspaper El Desmarque, which appears in Vigo, he also put him against the wall, along with the other teammates, who for more than an hour had effectively slept on the fieldmaking the task easier for the Germans after a first leg they had won 3-0.
El Desmarque: “Ionuț Radu resorted too much to long clearances”
The aforementioned publication gave Radu a grade of 3, the second lowest rating of the team! The Spanish journalists admit that he “received two goals in which he couldn't do much“.
But he criticizes him for “relying too much on long clearances, when he returned the ball from the corner of the small box, and his teammates only rarely managed to win the aerial duels with their opponents”.
Andrei Radu has scored 14 goals in the last 5 La Liga and Europa League matches
El Desmarque admits that Radu is “not to blame for the result”, but notes that “for a few weeks now, practically everything that has been shot at his goal has been empty. He was also ineffective in the second half“.
In total, in La Liga and the Europa League, Ionuț Radu scored 56 goals in 43 games. And in the last 5 matches, he never managed to keep a clean sheet. In 4 of these he scored 3 goals and only in the championship victory over Valencia did he miss with two (3-2).
