The epilogue of the 15th round of the Romanian Superliga took place on Monday evening at Sfântul Gheorghe, in unexpectedly good weather, considering the date we wrote down in the calendar, a game that also coincided with the end of the regular season of the championship. , the winner of these games will definitely finish the first part of the championship in the playoffs.

Although the pitch at Sfântul Gheorghe was and is considered among the other Superliga participants to be a difficult ground to earn points on, this statistic contradicts those of FCSB who have only lost once in their 7 previous visits to Sfântul Gheorghe: 4-2 in 2018 – coincidence or not, this defeat was also recorded with Nicolae Dike on the bench.

The FCSB coach now wanted to make it 4 straight wins in the league and at the same time surpass Sepsi’s wins in the rankings, which is an important factor considering that FCSB still have two games to play in December in Botoshan respectively at home against the champions of the last 5 tournaments. CFR Cluj.

If Cristiano Bergodi tried to go with the same starting 11 as in the previous match of the stage in Cluj, making only one change, the appearance of Branislav Ninaj in place of Belasa.

On the other hand, his colleague Nicolae Dike again surprised from the start of the match by changing the system… (we don’t know if it was an order from the palace or not:) again using 4-3-3 after playing for the previous two stages the classic 4-4-2 scheme, Bilel Omrani and Andrea Compagno were on the field.

Dike opted to keep the Frenchman only on the bench this time, coming off after the break and coming off injured.

We also note the return from injury and the second appearance in the Championship after two months for Adrian Shute, who seems to be returning to form from injury, a good performance in the cup match in Arad pushing him into the starting line-up.

Due to the disqualification of Risto Radunovic – two yellow cards received in the cup match – Pantea, the left-back of the team’s conjuncture, again entered the FCSB, but who pleasantly surprised with his developments this season, repeatedly praised by financier Gigi Becali.

Tudor’s failure and the nervous breakdown of Sepsi’s patron

In the first half, Berghodi’s men struggled to take their role as hosts seriously, trying to stay high on the FCSB pitch, which was only dangerous in the first 20 minutes thanks to Malcolm Ejuma’s shot that was saved by the compatriots’ goalkeeper.

That persistence paid off in the 26th minute when former FCSB player Alex Tudori executed a plan in a one-on-one with Davao and brought forward Sepsi to the ground, the center of the game awarding a penalty to the home side after VAR consultation.

It seems that Dava does not deny himself and insists on the mistake, because he “managed” to take exactly the same type of penalty against Farului after holding Denys Alibek, a moment that will prove to be decisive in the loss of the match by the red and blue.

Gigi Becali’s boss is not of the same opinion, having publicly expressed his admiration for his defender and how Buenna was finally dragged into a stalemate and fuming after a silly red card in the cup.

However, in the absence of other solutions, Dava will still have “credit” in the center of FCSB’s defense, at least until the return of the injured Julian Cristea.

Only this time luck would smile on FCSB, as striker Tudori humbly fires home from 11 meters, breaking the unwritten football rule that a player who has been fouled is not allowed to execute.

Tudori steps up to take a Jorginho-esque penalty, stops short of taking it, loses momentum, shoots lowly and Tirnovanu guesses it away.

This failure caused a completely unexpected nervous breakdown of a financier from Sepsi, who was caught on camera in the stands using a landline.

Boss Sepsi had a premonition, this missed penalty would be the psychological moment of the game.

It was 0-0 at half-time, but 0-0 gave us hope that we would see at least one goal in the second half.

A light penalty awarded decides the match

Nicolae Dike takes the lead in the second half – but not with three substitutions as he is used to – and brings on Bilel Omrani for Koman, suggesting the unlicensed Palace coach was somewhat pleased with the first-half performance.

And the half begins with what could be the defining moment of the game, a matchup between home centre-back Denis Ciubotario and Compagno making the centre-back a roughly 50-50 penalty game, with the Italian striker looking for more contact. In the VAR room, there is nothing against Compagno’s fall and they support the decision of the central referee – a kick from 11 meters.

And if in the case of the penalty missed by Tudori, we said that he broke the unwritten law of football, that the player who was fouled is not the best to take a kick from 11 meters, Compagno wanted to prove to us that this is just superstition.

Compagno drives hard down the middle of the net and runs past Rolando Nicculli for his 11th of the season with another 3-pointer that could already have him seriously considering being this season’s top scorer.

Tyrnoveanu, again a sensation in Sfantu Gheorghe

The shock of conceding a goal proved psychologically decisive for the Sepsi players, who managed only one more great chance in the last half hour, signed by substitute Mario Rondon, who did nothing but highlight FCSB goalkeeper Stefan Tirnovana, for whom the Sepsi pitch is proving to be lucky.

He also played an exceptional match last year at this arena, in the Sepsi-FCSB 0-0, in which he made 4 sensational saves.

Although we had a long game until the 98th minute, we didn’t register anything really dangerous, just sterile pressing from the home team, but without much scoring opportunities, the only notable event was the exit of the injured Bilel Omrani from the field, replaced with Dumiter.

So Dică’s team reached the end of the tour in an unexpected 6th place, FCSB proved that it changed the diesel engine, which was harder to warm up at the beginning of the championship, to 4×4, which, why not, gives us hope for Thursday’s match against Anderlecht, when the red and blues are trying to change something from a sad impression after two humiliations in the mirror with 5-0 against Silkeborg.

The team of Berghodi is waiting for another fierce home match in the championship with “Krayova Lui Radoja”, which for the first time this season has won 3 consecutive victories. Bergodi’s chair is also swaying?!