Five minutes were enough for tricolors

Romania respected the graph established for the confrontation with Cyprus from Bucharest, from the preliminaries CM 2026. Short victory, with 2-0, which was achieved towards the end of the first half over five minutes, with the goals of Florin Tănase and Dennis Man.

The latter had not enrolled in the national team of March 2023, but has made a very good match after a long time, being declared the best player on the field.

With these three points we reached a dowry of six after four matches, occupying the 3rd place after Bosnia and Herzegovina, with 9 points out of three games and Austria, 6 points, after passing us 2-1 in Vienna and settled in San Marino 5-0. The qualification will be decided in the fall, especially in the parties with Austria, from home and from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The yellow wall of the supporters of the national team created again a magnificent atmosphere, over 45,000 people coming to support the tricolors, to their big surprise, which after the Vienna failure did not expect to see such a large audience at the game with Cyprus and especially so close to them.

There were those perfect minutes at the Gate of the Guests, coming, the peak, from a rare hollow situation of the Cypriots produced by Maril consecutive errors of Chiricheș and Mihai Popescu. The Moldovan goalkeeper had, indisputably, his big contribution to avoiding a 0-1 that is not known what complications could have had, but just as important was the disastrous way, fortunately for us, in which he judged Anderson Correa, the naturalized Brazilian, who had the very convenient variant of a step to another two coechiparians, who were alone.

Well, even from the next phase after the bullet passed our ear, we opened the scoring, Man being a kind of Usain Bolt with the ball, left with three opponents in the bump and the completion, as in training, from the perfect pass was Florin Tanase. Five minutes later Man marked after a superb one-two with Drăguș, a hundred percent business of the two Dennis on the ground, the third, Alibec, entering the last part.

And that was all, even if Mitriță, if he had not suffered by his well -known selfishness, could have helped at least one goal in the plrs. In fact, after the match Mircea Lucescu was very upset with Chiricheș and Popescu for their double error and Mitriță, who broke all the good game through his selfishness. He noticed Man, young and Moldovan, although he had the whole match only that parade, truly amazing and of great importance.