Surprisingly, FCSB was eliminated from the Champions League of Shkendija, a much weaker team, the North Macedonian champion, and Mihai Popescu, the red-blue stoop, assumed this evening, score 1-2 (1-3, general), trying to find explanations for disaster. He also said that the North-Macedonians are “much weaker” than FCSB.
With the Skopje goal to recover, the red-blue ones were thrown into the national arena, receiving a few replicas on the part of Shkendija. Cisotti opened the scoring, from Daniel Bîrligea's pass, but the equality was quickly restored, after a poorly managed corner of the defense of the champion, who continued to attack Sisfic, although the bigger occasions were also near the North-Macedonian team.
The team from Tetovo has once more scored through Krstevski, and FCSB will continue in the Europa League, where he will play with Drita in the preliminary round. Popescu points out that football can be unpredictable and that these defeats are part of the learning process. It promises that they will treat the following matches more seriously and will try not to repeat the mistakes of the past. Finally, he understands the upset of the fans and believes that the team will look better in the near future.
VIDEO. Mihai Popescu: “We had to rush things”
“Unfortunately, we have lost both matches, we must be ashamed of us today. Sorry, but sometimes football punishes you. We have to go ahead, football gives you the chance to recover, especially when you play three days. The derby comes and we have to be prepared. We lost the first match, and here we had to hurry.
They were more pragmatic, they waited for the counterattack and so the history of the party was written. I think they are much weaker than usbut this is football. They beat us twice, but we go ahead, we have nothing to do. Mistakes are on the side of everyone. It was a collective mistake, we had to stay closer to them, to interrupt the game above, but these things are part of football and the mistakes were on our side today.
It is the beginning of the season, it is normal not to be at full capacitybut we will prepare and it will certainly be better in the next matches. I did not panic, I do not think it was this, I rushed things, I needed to mark, I was under the pressure of the result, and this made it less pragmatic on the offensive phase, “said Mihai Popescu, at the end of the match.
There are no light matches, taking into account the previous matches. We will treat the following parties more seriously and hope to go out victorious. It is normal for fans to be upset, we have not had results lately, but, as I said, this is football and we will try not to repeat the mistakes and we will be better in the next matches.
– Mihai Popescu, FCSB defender
