Romania, the mother of the injured: another proof that the national team has become a third world team

It would be interesting to know how the Viitorul owner came to this conclusion, regarding some players who do not play for important teams in the West and, in general, struggle when they leave the country, including a dozen European teams. .

And in the national team, their performances this year speak for themselves. The 2020 results, in fact, only confirm a sad reality: the Romanian national team is the third in the world of football, exactly as Răzvan Lucescu said several years ago. And then, the former coach was cornered by Hagi, but time showed who was right.

2018, last year I put the mess under the carpet

Lacking qualification for the 2018 World Cup, the tricolors filled that year’s competition calendar with friendly matches and those of the League of Nations, a competition that Jurgen Klopp called “the most useless ever invented in football”. In 2018, Romania were unbeaten – 7 wins, 3 draws – a balance that manager Cosmin Contra had long boasted, even if the match showed large gaps.

And the fact that we were deceived by the balance sheet of some games without stakes was seen in 2019, when we thwarted him in the Euro 2020 preliminaries, in which we only beat Faroe and Malta, back and forth. For the rest, two draws with Norway, which in any case ended up above us in the final standings.

I made Icelanders great

With Mirel Rădoi installed as coach, after the preliminary misses of Euro 2020, Romania has deluded, as usual, after the first two games of the League of Nations. That is, the same competition that for us we can call the “League of Lies”, given the way we exaggerate after a successful match in a competition that, in essence, is a game without betting, which replaces only friendlies.

And reality hit the tricolors in Reykjavik, where the national team practically did not move! Only one shot on goal, and the one from the spot, was Romania’s draw in an all-or-nothing confrontation for Euro 2020 qualification. Iceland won on the edge, 2-1, but, on the pitch, they controlled authoritatively the match. And the tragedy is that subsequent results showed how weak Iceland really was! The band prepared by Eric Hamren remained throughout 2020 with that victory with Romania in the official matches. Here are the results of all the games played this year:

* Iceland – Canada 1-0 (Friendly)

* Iceland – El Salvador 1-0 (Friendly)

* Iceland 0-1 England (League of Nations)

* Belgium 5-1 Iceland (League of Nations)

* Iceland 2-1 Romania (Euro 2020 Dam)

* Iceland 0-3 Denmark (League of Nations)

* Iceland 1-2 Belgium (League of Nations)

* Hungary 2-1 Iceland (Euro 2020 Dam)

* Denmark 2-1 Iceland (League of Nations)

And, considering that the Icelanders’ last match in 2020 is with England, tomorrow, in the last leg of the League of Nations, the Nordics will almost certainly finish this year with the only official win against Romania.

Northern Ireland, equal to one man less

Romania not only made Iceland great in the Euro 2020 match, but also in the League of Nations group showed their limits in the match with the weakest possible opponent, Northern Ireland.

In the “National Arena”, in the match that marked Rădoi’s debut as manager, the tricolors had many chances, but when the final whistle was blown, the score was the same, 1-1. And this in the conditions in which the opponents played in ten people from 39 ‘and scored 1-1, on 86’, outnumbered.

Northern Ireland has remained so far with that one point taken in Bucharest. And in 2020, its results speak for themselves:

* Romania 1-1 Northern Ireland (League of Nations)

* Northern Ireland – Norway 1-5 (League of Nations)

* Bosnia 1-1 Northern Ireland, 3-4 after penalties (Euro 2020 Dam)

* Northern Ireland – Austria 0-1 (League of Nations)

* Norway 1-0 Northern Ireland (League of Nations)

* Northern Ireland – Slovakia 1-2 (Euro 2020 Dam)

* Austria 2-1 Northern Ireland (League of Nations)

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is the place occupied by the Romanian national team in the latest FIFA rankings, under teams such as Senegal, Iran or South Korea.

League B of Nations, Group 1

Sunday

Romania – Norway canceled

Austria 2-1 Northern Ireland

Ranking

1. Austria 5 4 0 1 8-5 12

2. Norway 4 3 0 1 11-3 9

3. Romania 4 1 1 2 4-8 4

4. Northern Ireland 5 0 1 4 3-10 1

Last stop (tomorrow):

Austria – Norway (21.45)

Northern Ireland – Romania (21.45, Pro TV)