Romania - Liga 1 - Steaua Bucuresti vs Gloria Bistrita

Steaua Bucuresti

Sorin Cartu said that he is put in difficult situation by the declarations made by owner Gigi Becali, he is saying that he puts a lot of soul in those words and demands to be left alone at least in his last 3 weeks as Steaua's coach. Most probably, Cartu will leave Steaua at the end of the season. "We will have another Bistrita tomorrow, this is what I feel. Gloria's players will be extra motivated against us. They are more closer to relegation because of the loss with Dinamo. I think at what we have to do. There are still 5 games to be played and we have to play without thinking at the situation and atmosphere at the club. We MUST win, to get past all the problems we have and I mean here at injuries and fatigue. Galamaz had a surgery at his toe nail and we cannot count on him for two weeks. Bicfalvi injured, Ricardo injured, Surdu injured, probably Brandan unavailable also. Bonfim without chance to play at Steaua with me on the bench. I cannot accept his attitude towards the authority of the coach. Ricardo and Bicfalvi will not play this season anymore because of ligaments problems."

Bonfim cursed the coach and wasn't forgiven being thrown out of the locker. The player got out of the locker also cursing. Owner Becali commented the incidend and said that Bonfim will not be player of Steaua's first team anymore. He will be sent to Steaua 2.

So what is the situation of the unavailable players?

Galamaz (Defender - 6/0) - had surgery at a toe nail. Will be on the bench for two weeks

Bicfalvi (Midfielder 17/0)- Ligaments problems, will not play with Bistrita

Brandan (Midfielder 21/0) - suffers after a right leg injury. Missed the game with Pandurii, will certainly miss the game with Bistrita.

Iliev (defender 2/0) - back from muscular problems, but still not able to play

Ricardo (midfielder 16/0)  - injured at his knee in the game with FC Brasov

Surdu (forward 19/4) - uncertain for this game, but will play with Rapid next week

Bonfim (midfielder 19/0) - excluded from the team after cursing coach Cartu

Probable team: Tatarusanu - Martinovic, Gardos, Geraldo Alves, Latovlevici - Nicolita, L.Marinescu, Radut, Cr.Tanase - Onofras, Bilasco; Coach: Sorin Cartu; Injured: C.Lungu, Galamaz, Brandan, Ricardo, Bicfalvi, Surdu; Uncertain: V.Iliev; Suspended -; Will miss the game: Eder Bonfim; Substitutes: Stanca, Emeghara, Szekely, C. Matei, Burdujan, Maicon

LAST GAME(Pandurii Targu-Jiu - Steaua Bucuresti 1-1)
Scored: 1-0 Jaka Stromajer (43), 1-1 Cristian Tanase (66)
Pandurii: 80. Mingote - 25. Pleasca (8. Popete '86), 3. Viera, 21. Chiriches (10. Hidisan '83), 29. Grecu - 7. Bacila, 20. Vranjes, 5. Pintilii, 16. Nistor - 27. Lemnaru, 18. Stromajer (14. Voicule? '72). Coach: Petre Grigoras.
Steaua: 12. Tatarusanu - 14. Latovlevici, 18. Martinovici, 23. Geraldo, 29. Bonfim (17. Bilasco '55) - 10. Tanase, 6. Gardos, 8. Radut, 27. Marinescu (7. Szekely '46), 16. Nicolita - 99. Maicon (11. Onofras '67). Coach: Sorin Cartu.
Yellow cards: Pintilii '81 - Bonfim '27, Maicon '29

Steaua played extremley modest with Pandurii, managing only a draw, maybe unfair draw, because of an exceptional execution of Tanase. Cartu's team has 47 points, being on the 5th place, but hasn't assure a place in European Cups. Gaz Metan and CFR are coming from the back, while they will have a derby game to dispute with Rapid. The draw, 0-0 from the cup semifinal puts them in danger to miss also the cup inal. The game with Bistrita needs to be won.

Gloria Bistrita

Jean Padureanu declined the fact that he fired Halagian because of a conflict with himand the italian players. The owner declared that health problems are the reason why Halagian left the team.

Wednesday night, there was a conflict between the technician and players Cavalli, Corallo and D'Agostino. "If you don't shave, you don't play with dinamo!" yelled Halagian at them. Shocked, the player refuzed and said: "OK, we will not play!". After that the players went to talk with the owner and it seems that he decided to part roads with Halagian.

Probable team: Albut - Achim, Tudose, Szukala, Velcovici - Marginean, Anton - Keita, Bajenaru, I.Iordache – Balba; Coach: Nicolae Manea; Injured: Coroian, Cafasso, D'Agostino, Cip.Petre, Predescu, Cavalli, Suspended: -,Substitutes: Irimia, Nastase, Corallo, Nalati, Saceanu, Costache, Mandea

LAST GAME (Dinamo Bucuresti - Gloria Bistrita 3-0)
Scored: 1-0 Liviu Ganea (20), 2-0 Elis Bakaj (47), 3-0 Gabriel Torje (74)
Dinamo: 34. Balgradean - 3. Rubio, 24. Gaman, 4. Moti (29 Mehmedovici '77), 2. Diabate (16. Bordeanu '69) - 22. Torje, 8. Patrascu, 6. Margaritescu, 20. Bakaj - 19. L. Ganea (25. Danciulescu '71), 9. Tucudean. Coach: Ioan Andone.
Gloria: 22. Albut - 14. Achim, 27. Szukala, 3. Tudose, 5. Velcovici (23. Mandea '71) - 16. R. Marginean, 29. Anton - 21. Keita, 30. Bajenaru, 26. I. Iordache (20. Costache '11) - 9. Cavalli (11. Balba '55). Coach: Nicolae Manea.
Yellow cards: Diabate '25 - Costache '22, R. Marginean '82.

Gloria Bistrita played extremley poor with Dinamo, losig 0-3. Their luck was that also Craiova lost with Vaslui so thei are still at 6 points in front of them. In the other game Craiova will probably win with Urziceni so they need to make a good game with Steaua tomorrow. So, after this game Gloria will miss another 2 games with teams that fight for Europa League, so they must win as many points as possible until the decisive game with U. Craiova.

A game between two wonded teams. Steaua shouldn't have those odds in my opinion. I will see if the line will change to +1.5 for Gloria and I will take that.