After the draw in Cyprus, score 2-2, when he used in the middle of the field on Răzvan Marin, Nicolae Stanciu and Marius Marin, the coach Mircea Lucescu made changes with Austria, and the tactics paid off. Kept it in the first 11 only on the last. The first two were, in order, the national captains, but they were absent because of injuries, but it will be difficult for them to return to the team in the future. The formula in the game with Cyprus was also used in the test with Canada, 0-3.
Răzvan Marin was counted the second captain at national
UPDATE Put on the wall, Răzvan Marin, taken out of the team before the game with Austria, although the result of his MRI was not known: he reacted:
“I am ok, I had a load at the thigh. I arrived at the cantonment on Monday morning, in the afternoon I did normal training. On Tuesday I did a training, and in the end I felt a load, I told the preparatory and Mister if I could get a load.
It was 5-10 minutes and I preferred to go out. On Wednesday I trained normally, on Thursday before the match I did training as we do. After the match I ran with the trainers and the other boys who did not play or played less. I made launched.
Friday morning when I woke up I felt a load and I sent it to the doctor. But I told him there was nothing serious and I want to train on Friday afternoon. He probably spoke to Nea Mircea and said to stay quiet not to risk anything and do MRI on Saturday morning and see what the MRI says.
Only Nea Mircea made the statements she had made at the conference. That’s it. There was no quarrel. It was also written that it was a break between me and Mircea. I had no discussion, that was the whole story. It wasn’t even an injury.
I told him I could train and play if I needed it. I would have preferred to say directly that it is not necessary for me and better to sit on the bench than to say that I am injured or hit.
We are no longer children, we are not 20 years old to be scared of certain words, not to be mature enough to take things as they are. That’s how I would have preferred. There are probably many players who prefer to be told things in front. It’s much more correct and normal. That’s how I see things, maybe I’m wrong.
The doctor knew very well that there was nothing and sure it was transmitted to him that there was nothing serious. Sure he told Nea Mircea who probably didn’t want to risk.
What bothered me and I was a little sad and disappointed was that with the injury. The sports director and the coach also called me to ask me what the situation is. A total confusion was created because after I appeared at the official training and I did normal. Certain things were written in the press. I explained to them.
That upset me the most. If you do not need me or I am not good to play at national to be told directly. Not to say that I am injured or that I have problems“, Răzvan Marin told Football Club from Digi.
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For the decisive party with Austria (1-0), the coach changed the formula and introduced Ianis Hagi, anointed captain, and Vlad Dragomir, keeping him from the trio from Nicosia only Marius Marin. The measure paid off, and the tricolors prevailed at the last phase and remain in books for the second place. Hagi and Dragomir gave yields, although they have evolved holders 3 days away from the friendly with Moldova.
“We had nothing with Răzvan Marin, but we lost in Cyprus because of the middle of the land. I lost all the contacts. Apart from Marius Marin, who was clearly superior to the direct opponent, the others lost everything. In Vienna it was the same, I couldn’t continue“, Lucescu told the show” Fanatik Superliga “.
The coach took his eyes and another man in the middle. He shook Captain Nicolae Stanciu, who left European football in 2022, when he left Slavia Prague (Czech Republic) at Wuhan Three Towns (China). In season 2023-2024, the midfielder transferred to Damac (Saudi Arabia).
“Stanciu has to come back. Gave it a lot in the back Saudi Arabia. The fact that he played in Saudi Arabia made his yield decrease.
Not by chance, from the moment I started the League of Nations and until now, a goal pass, no more goal. I wait for him and I hope the series was to pick it up. It’s not easy to get into another format”, Said Lucescu.
“Not that they were guilty, but in that match we lost the game in the middle of the field. We went from 30% to control the game, in September, and reached 70%, with Bosnia. I grew up a lot. And suddenly we went to 40% with Cyprus. We haven’t been able to hold the ball. Where is the ball holding? In the middle of the field“, Added the coach.
Romania has 10 points in Group H, but could have had 12, if it was imposed in Nicosia, that is, at only one point of Bosnia.
Sorry for journalists
Lucescu wants to make peace with Digi Sport, after refusing to give an interview to this television, at the end of the friendly match won by Romania, score 2-1, with the Republic of Moldova.
Also, the coach came into conflict with the journalists and at the conference prior to the match with Austria. The coach was disturbed by an article signed by journalist Remus Răureanu, a collaborator of Digi Sport, who wrote on Iamsport.ro that Lucescu would have fallen asleep on the massage table, which would have made him delay. “Il Luce” named Răureanu “Dobitoc” and asked for it to be expelled from Digi.
“I’m sorry and apologizes to all the people in the press, those I offended. I apologized for not in my character to do this and offend them. I regret, but it was such a colossal and offensive lie at my age and my career and the success I had.
And how I put myself in front of my players who speak of a lot of important things for their career, for their life, for their evolution. I know very well that the moment of success brings to it immediately appeal“, Mircea Lucescu told the show” Fanatik Superliga “.
Asked if he apologizes to Marian Iancu, the former owner of Poli Timișoara, after a speech full of offenses, Lucescu replied: “I speak of people from the press, not outside people who come and say their opinion”.
Sunday success in Top 3 at national
At 80, Mircea Lucescu placed the victory by 1-0 against Austria in the first three of his career in the national team.
“This victory with Austria catches the top 3. for me, the most important match was in 1969 when I beat Portugal, 3rd place at the 1966 World Championship. So we then beat Portugal and went to the World Championship.
The second was in 1983 with Italy, when I beat the champion of the world and so on the mind I defeated. It was a demonstration of mental force. I mean they didn’t move. It could have been the match with Ireland, but I lost the week before Stefanescu, Cămătaru, Balaci.
The match with Austria climbs 3rd place in my career. Taking into account the context in which everything that happens in our football and what happened to all the injuries, with all the upset, with all the losses of players. It could be the 4-0 match with Austria, then Ghencea, when I left. Was a big team of everything”, Concluded Mircea Lucescu.
