Rapida Bucharest coach Adi Mutu held a press conference on Saturday ahead of Sunday night’s league clash, when Giulesti take on Romanian champions CFR Cluj.

Currently 2nd in the Romanian Superliga, one point above CFR, Rapidul will be waiting for their opponent in a real hell, in a stadium where they have not tasted defeat this season, Giulesti.

Adrian Mutu expects a difficult match against Transylvania

Despite the fact that in the last press conference, after the defeat against Sivasspor, Dan Petrescu (CFR coach) indicated that he will work with his starting teams in the championship match to give priority to Thursday’s game in the UEFA Conference League, with Balkan , Adrian Mutu keeps his students fed up ahead of Sunday night’s clash.

Genial believes that the Transylvanian team has a very valuable team and the match itself will be quite difficult, despite the assumptions of the guests, who do not consider the game important in the current situation.

“We will meet an experienced team, a team that is used to any pressure. For us, this is a match in which we must be extremely focused, we know their strength to resist, their maturity. This is a team that over the last five years we know very well what they have done. It will be a match where we have to outdo ourselves and we have to be very careful.

At a club like CFR, I wouldn’t say they would be playing the “second team”. Let’s see what team Dan Petrescu will use. The pressure is on them because they are champions, but also on us because we are playing at home. We try to stay on top. The return begins and new difficult weeks are announced.

I don’t know whether to believe what Mr. Balai says. I find it hard to believe that they will come just to show up. On the contrary, this is a statement that will relax us, but it will not, we are not new to football. We know that certain statements are made for a certain purpose.”

CFR, one step away from qualifying for the Spring Conference League

Despite the decisive defeat on Thursday night in Turkey (0-3), the champion of Romania has the best position to reach the 1/8 finals of the UEFA Conference League, being at her disposal in the duel with Balkan.

In an interview with Sport.ro, Christy Balaj, president of the CFR Cluj, explained how important it is for the club to enter the spring European tournament.

“The Championship and Conference League are also important, but first of all we are interested in the match against Balkan on Thursday. In a situation where we have a negative result, we have no way to go back. While there are still many stages in the championship, we can recover from the difference.” – he noted.

Rating of the Romanian Super League:

1. Farul Konstanza 37 points (16 matches played)

2. Rapid Bucharest 29p (15 matches played)

3. CFR Cluj 28p (13 matches played)

The match is broadcast on Sunday evening from 21:00 on Digi Sport 1, Orange Sport and Prima Sport 1 and LiveBlog on HotNews.ro.