The leader Universitatea Cluj suffered its first defeat this season of the football Super League, 0-1 (0-0) with Politehnica Iaşi, in Copou, on Saturday, in the 11th stage. On the other side, Poli Iasi is undefeated with Emil Săndoi as coach.
Ovidiu Sabău says that his players made a mistake in front of the goal. Archive photo
The only goal of the game was scored by the Portuguese defender Guilherme Soares (50), with a header from the corner executed by Andrei Roman.
Cluj University had a goal, through Ovidiu Bic (66), and Vladislav Blănuţă (86) had the chance to equalize, but sent his header just wide.
Poli Iasi is undefeated with Emil Săndoi as coach, having two wins and a draw and no goals conceded.
After the match, the coach of Cluj University, Ioan Ovidiu Sabău said that, although they created scoring opportunities, once they were in front of Jesus Hernandez’s goal, his players did not make the best decisions.
“This moment also came (number of the first defeat). It was a very difficult land to build on. The ball bounced all the time. And in such conditions we had to play more directly, the two attackers.
In the second half on their first goal chance they scored, after which we had a pretty good reaction, but we were quite uninspired on the last pass.
They (not the players from Poli Iasi) fought for every ball. We move forward, after all we expected the first defeat to come. We have to recover and believe in ourselves, work even better. We need to analyze this game, we have a lot to learn.
So far we have shown that we know how to play football. It was a bad day. Such a state also intervenes, of fatigue, and not making the best decisions. It’s a lesson, keep your head up, and let’s move on.” said Ioan Ovidiu Sabău immediately after the end of the game according to DigiSport.
Although it lost in Copou, Cluj University will remain in first place in the SuperLigă hierarchy at least until the start of the next round of the championship. After the failure with Poli Iasi, the “red caps” have 22 points obtained from 10 games.
