The Romanian national team, led by Mircea Lucescu, ex-scholar of Shakhtar and Dynamo, failed to play with Bosnia and Herzegovina (0: 1).
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The head coach of the Romanian team Mircha Lucescu He expressed his dissatisfaction with judiciality, noted the game of his wards and told about the lack of key players:
What can I say? This is a general disappointment because we really wanted to start with victory, and in my opinion, we deserved it. We dominated quite seriously. The rivals used one moment when we were a little relaxed and scored.
After that, they constantly interrupted the game. The referee gave them the opportunity to do it, and they used it. We also had a moment with a penalty! Very condescending judge to rivals, which enabled them to recover directly on the field. It would be normal to send them beyond the field, as it happened with Tenasse, but he left them in the game. In addition, two controversial situations. It is unacceptable – not to give a penalty. Initially, the ball hit the defender’s hand, and then there was an episode with Janis.
All these points influenced our result. But we move on – as they won here, so we can win them. More complicated matches, we need to be prepared for them. We played with full control, dominated! Previously, we had 40% of the ball ownership, we quickly lost it, played long gears. And sometimes we used long balls, which we are not typical. We have technical players, we control the ball well, and we need to improve this aspect. I reproached the guys because they had no patience with the ball tried to solve some of the moments individually.
We also lacked several important players – Dregushin, Michael, Olaru – they could help us. But I can’t be evil on my players. They tried, they wanted to win. In the second half, we did not have the patience, we hurried to solve moments, although we had to act more calm. Have our chances decreased? We just started, a lot of matches ahead, let’s see. ”
Qualification of the World Cup 2026. UEFA Zone
1st round, March 21
21:45. Romania – Bosnia and Herzegovina – 0: 1
Goal: Gigovich, 14
Source: Sport.ua