Comments on: Euro 2008 LIVEBLOG: Netherlands vs Romania

By: Mic

Mic — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:11:04 +0000

Danezu: you are completely right but:
1. Do you think that Romania does not have enough talented players for a B-team, like Holland’s? I think it probably does (I dont’ really know).
2. Do you think that Russia has more talented players than Romania? I’m sure it doesn’t. But Russia played beautiful, attacking football – an advertisment for (Russian) football. Romania, under Piturca, played timid, cautious football. Did it pay? No.

By: Danezu (Romania)

Danezu (Romania) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:15:47 +0000

yes,our strikers was out of form…all of them ,defense was strong,but ,finally,failed too… because attacking players was equal with zero… (Just Mutu is not enough…) Don’t forget that for all the romanian players was in the first experience in a final tournament…they begin very good (in deed) 0-0 with France;1-1 with Italy; but the first “11″ don’t make same energy against Holland WHY? BECAUSE WE DON’T HAVE 2 TEAMS AS SAME LEVEL LIKE NETHERLANDS (missing Nistelrooy? no problem is Huntelaar, missing Van Persie?is Kuyt ,Missing Robben? is Affelay,missing Van der Vaart,no problem is Sneijder) etc
Romania begin problems in their system after the match against Italy…The injured midfielder Radoi was out, we don’t have a solution for him to subsitute, defender Goian is very important player for Romania ,he don’t play against Netherlands (yellow cards),another important player was Ovidiu Petre(midfielder) but he injured before the tournament begin and ADIO euro for him…

By: Mic

Mic — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:48:53 +0000

When after the crappy 0-0 to France some of us (even as Romania supporters) said that BOTH teams played like shit, the great Defenders of National Honor on this site insisted that, no – it was a brilliant/tactical/understandable defensive feat.
I was looking fwd. to hearing what “Mareleblond” and “Andrei” had to say on losing to Holland’s B-squad miserably, without as much as fighting, but the apologists seem to have gone on (blog) vacation.
And yes, some of the truth is coming out: Piturca seems incapable of actually preparing his (former) team mentally for this type of challenge and chance. Somebody here proposed (jokingly) that he was going for 0-0 again. Unfortunately I’m not so sure it’s just a joke.

By: alex

alex — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:36:04 +0000

hey mike, maybe piturca will fashion the romanian team after holland now… hahaha

By: Ian Rose

Ian Rose — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:38:07 +0000

Maybe so, Lugo, but there were no reffing decisions that really changed the game. For once, in this tournament. Netherlands deserved the win, and Romania deserved to lose for lack of offensive creativity. The ref was pretty quiet.

By: Lugo

Lugo — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:35:24 +0000

Anybody noted that the ref was the “Italianest” of Swiss refs Massimo Bussacca??

By: alex

alex — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:15:12 +0000

The second half was just desperate and pathetic fooyball. I’m glad they’re going home after that fiasco. Romania has some very talented players that seem to lack confidence in their abilities. They gave us a brief glimpses of quality football but they were very brief. At least it’s good that they got to this stage since it’s the first time for most of the players… now Piturca can train them for the WC and hopefully we’ll see a much looser and confident team then.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:15:10 +0000

And let’s be serious here, the Niculae’s are second class strikers, we need to find someone to play with Mutu upfront, but I guess he has to play at Steaua or Pitzi won’t call him up…

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:13:35 +0000

Here’s why Romania lost:

1. Piturca is an idiot, how can you play defensively in the most important match in the last 10 years, when you NEED to win in order to advance?

2. Nicolita should not be anywhere near a Romania jersey, stay at Steaua you’re good for nothing and talentless.

3. Piturca again, it’s impossible to make a team more offensive by just replacing attackers with other attackers and midfielders with OTHER midfielders, what an idiot.

4. In the romanian press it said that Piturca said that the players were depressed when they heard Italy was up 1-0 and that’s what caused them to lose. So Mr.Pitzi, you’re saying that AGAIN you were playing for 0-0? What the hell????

5. Cocis was terrible and should’ve been subbed a long time ago, you don’t wait to make your final substitution in the 70th or 80th minute Piturca you idiot.

In conclusion, Piturca turned Romania into an ultra-defensive Greek look-a-like, he should be sacked ASAP.

PS. How do you leave someone like Bratu home, and take Marica who is having the worst year of his life….and you dont even play Marica…idiot.

This is all Piturca’s fault. Mutu gave it his all but it’s hard to pass when nobody’s there.

By: Juan

Juan — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:01:31 +0000

ugly, boring, crappy football