To me follow the match of the season

The coach of the FC Rapid Bucharest football team, Marius Șumudică, said in a press conference on Tuesday that his band should qualify in the semifinals of the Romanian Cup, specifying that from his point of view the match with Metal Buzău in the quarterfinals of the competition is the most important in the current season.

‘A match of everything or nothing awaits us. For me it is perhaps the most important match of the season. Whether we meet a second league team, you know very well what is happening in this competition. There are no small teams and proof is what happened last year with Corvin Hunedoara, who won the trophy and was about to go to the Conference League groups. It is a competition that we continue to treat seriously. For me it is the match of the season, we must win, after which we will think about the following games. We will meet a super motivated team and then we will have to respond with the same currency to want more than them. Because if we want more than them, we will definitely qualify. We need to qualify. There is no … in football it is said that in such matches the players do not need a coach. No, no. They need a coach, the owner, the supporters, everyone has to understand we have to put the bone and qualify, « he said.

The technician explained that his players have to win in 90 minutes the match with the second division in order not to reach extensions or breaks.

‘It is a game in which we leave favorites and we have to remain favorite, but we must win. I saw the lawn from Buzau, and if you are not a team that thinks pragmatically, you know how to enhance all the elements, it is clear that they become a bit equal. And if you enter a fighting game with the opponent, anything can happen. And then there were countless cases in which the second league teams removed league I teams but we do not want to get to this situation and we should not arrive. We are obliged to win this game. And there are 90 minutes in which you have to cut things. There is no equal, because it takes you into extensions. You can reach the lottery of the breaks, and there is hazard. So we have to solve the match in 90 minutes. I will align the best band tomorrow, and the Rapid will play exactly as he has done so far, ‘said Șumudică.

Present at the press conference, the shareholder Victor Angelescu announced that he will enter the cantonment and will travel to Buzău with the players.

‘From the club’s point of view, at this moment this is the most important match. Even if it is with the second league team, it is the most important match for Rapid. I said we are interested in the cup from the beginning, I treated it seriously, we are in the quarters and for me it is the most important match so far in the season. And I will not hide you, this is the first time I am at Rapid when I go with the team from the beginning in the cantonment. I will leave with them today and I will stay there precisely because everyone has to understand that this match for us is extremely important, « he said.

‘We have an extremely important match tomorrow and I really want the supporters to be with us, to come as many, even if it is a trip and we have a limited number of tickets. We need them very much at this match. I am convinced that they also make importance to it. Basically, we can reach the semifinals and we would be at a final match … and Rapid did not play a final for so long and we can win a trophy, « the shareholder added.

Angelescu believes that Rapid won the match with Craiova University of Superliga, disputed only with children in the stands, if the supporters had been present.

‘I would like to thank the children who came to the match with Craiova. At the same time I am convinced, as I showed then that if we had supporters we would have won. So supporters need to understand that we need them. Quickly without supporters is not fast. We need them, because it is a season in which we can really achieve something that has not done 13 years. We want to win the Cup, we still want and we have a chance to finish in the first three in the championship, « said the minority shareholder.

The FC Rapid football team meets the second divisional Metal Buzău, on Wednesday, from 7:30 pm, on the Gloria Stadium in Buzau, in a match counting for the quarterfinals of the Romanian Cup.