Romania is too weak for the Champions League

When the championship team, the group considered by most specialists as the best in Romania and favorite for a new title, lamentably loses in the preliminary round II of the Champions League, we realize how insignificant is the football proposed by Ligue 1.

CFR Cluj showed in the duel with the Swedes in Malmo why the teams of the national competition succeed only sporadically, probably by aligning the planets, to occur in the Cups of ;Europe. And I call the performance of a skill group!

With junior Iordanescu on the bench, a very well-trained technician, of whom everyone only has words of praise, with transfers that seem to be made with head, with interesting players being brought, the champions showed impotence.

No dangerous shot on the side goal side in an entire game played on the ground! That's all you need to know about Malmo if you have not seen it live.

The Romanian champion was fearful, defensive and uncertain. Transylvania's tactic was a traditional "cipper", trying to have no purpose and hoping for a miracle at the other door.

As things went back, he also saw the rebroadcast of the only goal that came from a hundred (19659006) Many are tempted to say that CFR was a bad luck, as a goal you take once a season and that the Swedes, even though they had clear opportunities to score, they were not so good. That might be right, but if you look at the first half, you see that the goal did not come from anything.

The Malmo players have tried the CFR keeper several times with long sutures, with the ground, and he has been shown to be unsure. There was a weakness apparently felt by the coach and speculated by the players sent to the field. That's how football plays in 2018, the technician on the bench needs to be better prepared. The classic shouting for the footballers to score or be offside, I'm only going to the third-hand championships, just like the League One.

I have never seen Edi Iordanescu know at any time that he understood Malmo is playing, what weakness the Swedish team and how his players are trying to speculate. I would be happy with some attempts, they should not have succeeded, just to show that we understand modern football.

Regarding return, I am not very optimistic. The Swedish champion has shown that he is better and more mature in the game, with footballers who can make the difference against a lower opponent. On the other hand, Malmo is a weak team for the Champions League and, as a rule, for all small, weak teams, is afraid of success.

It would not be excluded that CFR, with a better chance of "cipping" to register in Sweden and even qualify for the third round. But that would not change what I saw tonight at Gruia

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