Team of the matchday - Round 18 (1-4-4-2):
George Curcă (Farul Constanța) - Cosmin Bodea (FC Brașov), Flavius Moldovan
(Rapid București), Liviu Rusu (Sportul Studențesc) - Florentin Petre (Dinamo
București), Claudiu Voiculeț (Farul Constanța), Costin Lazăr (Sportul
Studențesc), Gabriel Caramarin (FCU Politehnica Timișoara) - Claudiu Niculescu
(Dinamo București), Miroslav Giuchici (Apulum Alba-Iulia)
George Curcă (Farul Constanța) - The goalkeeper of the
"saylors" made a fantastic match, the point won by Farul at
Pitești dueing him without any doubt. In 13 minute he retained the ball
shot by Tănasă. In 24 minute he rejected the header from 4 metres of Bilașco.
After 3 minutes, Tănasă shot from 16 metres, but Curcă extended and rejected
with a sensational reflex. With 3 minutes before of the first half, Curcă
was lucky, Bilașco shooting directly in him from 2 metres. In 81 minute,
Chiță headed from 5 metres, but Curcă rejected the ball from under the
bar, and in extra time he blocked Danciu in the penalty area. Will he
play the same in next rounds and in 2nd leg of semi-final Romanian Cup?
Costin Lazăr (Sportul Studențesc) - The captain of "white-blacks"
had a very good game at Craiova, his team winning away with 1-0. He sent
many exactly passes to his mates, he scored the single goal and made possible
the elimination of Bordeanu. After a corner from right side, Lazăr headed
powerful in the net of keeper Guso. He was a threat for the defence of
Craiova all the game, and at the end of the match he escaped alone on
a counter-attack, but he was fouled by Bordeanu, who received the red
card. Because at national team Gâlcă doesn't play good anymore at the
middle of the field, coach Pițurcă should use Lazăr in friendlies with
Moldova and Bulgaria, because in the match from Rotterdam, with Netherlands,
from 4 June, Romania has to play with anybody, except Gâlcă...
Claudiu Niculescu (Dinamo București) - The striker of
Dinamo is in a very good form, the most of the goals of Dinamo from this
season being scored by him. After 6 minutes of the match with Poli Iași,
Niculescu has showed that he is the best free-kick specialist from Divizia
A, scoring in the net of Brăneț from 30 metres. He tried to score again
from free-kick in 34 minute, but his shot from 25 metres wasn't so precisely
as the first. But he succeeded the double, in 53 minute, when he left
from the limit of the off-side, after a pass from Grigorie, entered in
the box, dribbled the goalkeeper of Iași and scored in empty net. Profiting
by the semi-failure of Steaua, 1-1 at Alba-Iulia, Dinamo is the new leader
of Divizia A, this fact dueing to Niculescu too.