Romania - Unirea Urziceni vs Victoria Branesti

Unirea Urziceni

Coach Marian Pana hopes that his team will win the game with Victoria and will have the needed 25 points to not be penalized in the 2nd league: "Unfortunatley we didn't play anything at Craiova. I think ti was our poorest game since I am coach at Urziceni. It is difficult to motivate the players when they don't have financial bonuses and are thinking more of the next day then the game. I don't know what will be in the summer break, but I want to leave the team without points of penalty in the 2nd league, so I want to win this game."

For the game with Victoria Branesti, coach Marian Pana doesn't have injured players, just Apostol Muzac who is suspended. The only problem is that the players are not with their minds on the games so it is difficult to say they will get the three points even in this matchup.

Probable team: Curca - Busca, E.Nicu, Mera, Lupu - Scarlatescu, Muzac, Apostol, Patras - Rusescu, Mihalcea; Coach: Marian Pana; Injured: -; Suspended: Muzac; Substitutes: Cernea, Marcu, Ionita, Toba, Senin, Teusan, Tene, Al.Paduretu

LAST GAME (Universitatea Craiova - Unirea Urziceni 3-0)
Scored: 1-0 Danijel Subotic (31p), 2-0 Dorel Stoica (43), 3-0 Dragos Firtulescu (50)
Universitatea Craiova: 21. Lung jr - 18 Dananae, 7. Gugu, 4. Zoro, 2. Busu - 25. Firtulescu (15. Dina '83), 88. J. Nicolae, 5. D. Stoica (13. Wendel '63), 38. Gangioveanu - 20. Subotici, 19. Stoianof (10. Fl. Costea '68). Coach: Laurentiu Reghecampf (suspended)
Unirea Urziceni: 1. Curca - 15. Busca, 16. E. Nicu, 24. Mera, 4. Lupu - 6. Muzac (5. Ionita '46), 32. Apostol - 22. Scarlatescu (17. Tene '62), 28. Patras, 9. Toba (30. Marcu '75)- 90. Mihalcea. Coach: Marian Pana
Yellow cards: Gugu '16, Gangioveanu '57 - Muzac '30

Unirea was present at Craiova only as a tourist losing the game 3-0. It was expected to lose the game, but the way they played is a disgrace to football. After the 1st goal they didn't even press the opponents when they had the ball. For Unirea there are 360 minutes of pain left, until they will go down to Liga 2 that is if things go well, because there are rummors that the team will not exist anymore from summer, almost all the players leaving to other clubs.

Victoria Branesti

Coach Ciprian Urican is dissapointed that he lost with Vaslui and will want to win with Urziceni: "I liked the attitude of the boys in the game with Vaslui. They wanted to win, they fought, but unfortunatley they couldn't win a positive result. Even if we relegate, I sence that the players are not in holiday. Unlike Unirea Urziceni we want to get back to Liga 1 next year that is why it is important to win at Urziceni, only after that we can be relaxed."

Coach Ciprian Urican doesn't have team problems in front of the game with Urziceni.

Probable team: Stoicescu - Maghici, Sg.Bar, Poverlovici, Lorincz - D.Popa, Olariu, Calintaru, R.Avram - Todoran, C.Coman; Coach: Ciprian Urican;Injured : E.Nicola; Suspended: -; Substitutes: Bordeanu, Nicola, Iacob, B.Oprea, Straut, Zuluf, Novac

LAST GAME (Victoria Branesti - FC Vaslui 1-3)
Scored: 0-1 Wesley Lopes (3), 1-1 Dorinel Popa (12), 1-2 Gabriel Canu (64), 1-3 Adaílton Martins (87)
Victoria Branesti: 1. Bordeanu (27. Stoicescu '46) - 2. Maghici, 5. Sg. Bar, 16. Nicola (28. Straut '45), 3. Lorincz - 8. D. Popa, 17. Olariu, 4. Calintaru (19. Zuluf '75), 15. Iacob, 7. Todoran - 10. B. Oprea. Coach: Ciprian Urican.
FC Vaslui: 1. Kuciak - 20. Milanov, 3. Papp, 28. Canu, 2. Campano (10. Adailton '64) - 23. Pavlovici (11. Milislavljevici '60), 18. Sanmartean, 30. R. Costin, 15. Annang (17. Balace '52) - 80. Wesley - 25. Yero Bello. Coach: Viorel Hizo.

Victoria Branesti played well in the game with FC Vaslui managing to score one goal and keep the outcome of the game uncertain until the 87th minute. They don't have chances to save themselves but has to get to 25 points. In the first game, Victoria won without problem, 4-1, but since then Branesti hasn't won any game. In this game Branesti have their last chance to force a win and get to 25 points.

Both teams are relegated but the motivation and situation makes in my eyes Victoria Branesti favourite, not the other way around. The game is played at an unusual hour, so I don't think we will see more than 200-300 fans at the stadium so Home factor is out of the question. Unirea's owner will leave the football scene and he will sell all the valuable players so we might see Unirea dissolve in the summer break. Victoria Branesti, a team from a small village but with great ambitions still have the players motivated and I don't see them losing points here.