Article by Ovidiu Ioanițoaia – published Monday, 04 August 2025, 16:57 / Updated Monday, 04 August 2025 16:58
We had agreed, isn't it?, That also FCSB and CFR, in other words the champion and vice-champion of the previous season, will be the main suitors for the title. Basically, they had not given up any important player, because the departure of the goalscorer Louis Munteanu from Gruia was endlessly postponed, even they had strengthened here. FCSB, for example, with Alibec and politics, from which it is hoped that the strength of the red-blue attack will increase. Although it is premature to draw conclusions, the two did not convince. It is right, the first one was injured, but none of them, both candidates for national, have become certainty. They have not been integrated yet, they are looking.
Anyway, if we analyze the exchange of Musi – politically made with Dinamo, the direct match, won on merit of “dogs” with 4-3, tilted the balance to the mies. It was not excluded that FCSB has been fooled by paying almost one million euros to enroll politics. But we will see again. Not to repeat the sad history with Stefanescu and Gheorghiță, brought as presumptive holders and which Gigi Becali was delayed.
Between so many assumptions, they are also, it is certain that the favorites were wrong. As such, here are them after 4 stages away from the leader of the standings, where Craiova and Lighthouse gathered 10 points. Dowry to which he can reach quickly if he will pass on Monday evening in Botosani.
At this moment, with 4 points each, FCSB and CFR fell into the play-out, and at the bottom! I agree that the Superliga just started. That she is not a sample of a sprint, but a marathon. It's enough time for the lost points to be recovered. It is also true that the current handicap is not even neglected. Not for nothing is said that the good day is known in the morning.
Obviously, unlike Craiova, FCSB and CFR have failed to manage the loaded program properly. With matches every 3 to 3 days, Wednesday – Thursday in European Cups, Saturday – Sunday in the internal championship. Proof that, in Superliga, FCSB took two beats in a row in Bucharest (with Farul and Dinamo), and CFR in Gruia (with FC Argeș and Craiova), this besides the painful failures suffered by the champion.
FCSB champions, spread on the lawn after Dinamo / Photo failure: Cristi Preda (gsp.ro)
The behavior all the more difficult to explain, logically, that the lots of the two teams, numerous and valuable, can ensure an honorable presence on both levels. Unfortunately, the appearances cheated on.
About what is happening at FCSB, lack of concentration and decrease in rhythm, I have recently written in the article suggestively entitled “Păpușăăăăăăăăă. I no longer resume. But I note that the unavailability pulled the champion down. The one of Olaru, absent also in the duel with Dinamo, affected the game in the middle, just as the forcing of Bîrligea and Alibec, introduced before being fully restored, diminished the effectiveness of the offensive.
Difficult It should be noted, however, who is responsible for the black pass, neighbor with the crisis, crossed by the Berceni band. You need to show the coaches with your finger Charalambous and the pintili or pulled the patron sons by sleeve Gigi Becaliwho cut and hang in the locker room? The man who orders, the one who dictates. Probably the fault is common, without discussing the players, some tired, others blazed, if not both.
When things do not go on wheels in Gruia, where on the list of Simao, Emerlahu, Muhar and Kamara injuries, all long lasting, would be added on Sunday and Păun, it would seem that we cannot be relaxed before the parties in the Europa League. Although FCSB will meet Drita in Kosovo, an opponent much inferior to the one with whom CFR will face, Sporting Braga.
Wrying success for our representatives, of course, Craiova, would not hurt to record, the target of the present comment, that the painting in the superliger has been changed. In which the protagonists of the previous season, FCSB and CFR, do not find their cadence. Will they find it or will they continue to slide on the slide? This is the question.
