Rapid Bucharest - Universitatea Craiova 0-1

With Florin Costea on a hospital bed, Universitatea Craiova went last night in Bucharest looking for some points which are very useful for the end of this football season. With a new system Craiova, 4-4-2, and with Ologu, a 20 years old kid, as a substitute for Florin Costea, Mark Wotte placed Prepelita and Dilevski as central midfielders.

Rapid scored in the first phase of the game, but their goal was canceled for an offside. Craiova had a shot of Dina (16') and the younger brother of Florin Costea, Mihai, missed a simple retrieval alone with Bornescu (19'). Mircea Bornescu, former goal-keeper of Universitatea Craiova in the last 4 years, is playing now for Rapid Bucharest.

After the break, Wotte realized that Sapunaru from Rapid, ex-FC Porto, is not so scary and took himself the risk to get out a midfielder, Ologu, and put a striker on, Alex Piţurcă. Although the hosts took over the game and they were dangerous for Silviu Lung's goal. Herea ('46) and Răduţa twice ('49, '57) did not beat Lung in good situations.

The end was played sharply, Dina had a bar on Bornescu's goal('70). At the other goal, Herea monumental missed one shoot, all alone with Lung('77), then Răduţa two meters from the goal ('78). In the last seconds of the game, Gangioveanu ('90+2) did a great shot in cross and that was the only valid goal of this game.

Some players from Craiova get an yellow card in this game, and Prepelita, Lung and Dina will miss for the next match, against Timisoara.

Our team: Lung - Bărboianu, V. Găman, Iliev, Bălace - Prepeliţă, Dilevski, Ologu ('46 A. Piturca), Gângioveanu - Dina ('70 Trica), M. Costea ('81 Firtulescu)

Florin Costea off

Florin Costea will be absent from the field for over 8 months, he had split the cross and collateral ligaments of his left knee.

Before the results of location, Costea still hope that will catch the end season: "I hope the injury is not very serious one. I hope I can catch the end of the season, thanks to the good God".

This is the second important football player loss for Universitatea Craiova in this season due to serious injuries, after the defender Ovidiu Dănănae.

He suffered a similar injury like Florin Costea in August 2009, in an international match of Romania against Hungary, and 7 months away he is still not recovered 100%.

Universitatea Craiova - Politehnica Iasi 2-1

A new great game played by Universitatea Craiova, a team who is looking for entertaining every day. This game was very nice to look at. It was very entertaining and Craiova really made a good match. In the 44th minute of the game, Florin Costea get injured by the goalkeeper of the opponent team.

He was replaced by Alex Piturca. Let's hope it is not something serious for the most important player of Universitatea Craiova. In the 62nd minute of the game, Vali Iliev, a new Bulgarian football player transfered by Craiova in this winter, scored for 1-0 and everything was just perfect for our team. Unfortunately in the 85th minute of the game Politehnica Iasi scored for a draw and Universitatea Craiova saw for a while the incredible situation to play in the second league next year.

That was only for 4 minutes, until Prepelita, the captain of Universitatea Craiova, scored again by a really nice head strike and Craiova came back to life again. I think I almost made a heart attack at that goal... 3 more points in the table and Universitatea can hope again.

Our team: S. Lung jr. – Bărboianu, V. Găman, Iliev, Bălace – Prepeliţă, Dilevski, Gîngioveanu ('69 Barbu) - Dina ('79 Trica) - M. Costea, Fl. Costea ('44 A. Piturca)

Gloria Bistrita - Universitatea Craiova 2-1

What a game! What a game! Craiova had 1-0 in the 3rd minute of it. F. Costea scored for Universitatea Craiova and everything seemed to be just fine for all the fans of Craiova. Actually the problems stared here. The referee of the game had another opinion and gave a penalty kick for Bistrita in the 34th minute of the game. It was a moment of mental block for all the audience. Nobody saw a contact in the penalty area. Everything was normal in the penalty area, but the referee said Bistrita deserve an 11m kick. Because of this, the score became 1-1 and it remained like that until the break time.

After the break Bistrita scored once more. This time it was a perfect valid goal, and Gloria took the lead of the game. In the 86th minute of the game, the goalkeeper of Gloria Bistrita, Albut, was redcarded. So their goal was succesfully defended by the scorer of the second goal, Hora. Universitatea Craiova could not get even in 8 minutes with one player more in the field and a striker of the opponent team defending the goal.

Our team: Lung - Bădoi, V. Găman, Iliev, Bălace, Barbu ('73 Gangioveanu), Prepeliţă, Dilevski ('68 Barboianu), M. Costea, F. Costea, Dina('62 Trica)

Universitatea Craiova - FC Brasov 3-0

Universitatea Craiova made a really wonderful game last Saturday. In the 25th minute of the game the score was already 3-0. In front of an assistance of 15,000 viewers, our team started in force the match.

Our goals were scored by V. Gaman('16), R. Barbu('25) and M. Costea('36). All these players are part of U21 Romanian national football team. Now Craiova is on the 14th place in the table. Let's hope our team will go up until the end of this season.

Our team: Lung - Bădoi, V. Găman, Iliev (Firtulescu), Bălace - Prepeliţă, Barbu, Dilevski - M. Costea, F. Costea ('80 Nicolae), Dina ('75 Trica)

Pandurii Tg Jiu - Universitatea Craiova 0-0

Universitatea Craiova made a good game this time. It was a really bad weather durring this match but both teams played good and the result was a consequence of the fight on the field. In this match, Barboianu was red carded and he will miss for the next game. F. Costea played only 1 minute because he had fever and was really sick.

Our team: Lung - Bădoi, V. Găman, Iliev, Buşu - Prepeliţă, Bărboianu, Dilevski, Gângioveanu ('54 Firtulescu) - Dina (F. Costea), M. Costea ('60 R. Barbu)

Universitatea Craiova - Gaz Metan Medias 1-2

Universitatea Craiova played the first game at home in this year. But the game was played in Drobeta Turnu-Severin, a city placed 120 Km to the west of Craiova. The stadium from Craiova is not possible to be used for a while so that Universitatea Craiova will play in Severin for the next 2 years.

Gaz Metan Medias did a good game and won without any doubt. Craiova tried hard to score and succeded in the minute 90+5 by Trica. Unfortunately this was not enough to get a good result. Another game lost for our team. Florin Costea missed a penalty kick in the 11th minute of the game.

Our team: Lung - Bădoi ('69 Trica), V. Găman, Iliev, Bălace - Firţulescu ('56 Dina), Bărboianu, Prepeliţă, Gângioveanu - M. Costea ('81 A. Piturca), F. Costea

Dinamo Bucharest - Universitatea Craiova 2-1

What a game, what a game! This is the game of the year in Romania. Universitatea Craiova must play its best against Dinamo Bucharest. And this time they did. Craiova came in Bucharest decided to do a perfect game. Unfortunately the referee was the main actor of this game.

Dinamo scored twice, but Florin Costea was no doubt faulted in the penalty area in the 13th minute of the game. The referee said: "come and play". No penalty, no card for Dinamo's defender, nothing. That was the moment which made an entire country being like a stone. Probably corruption...

Mark Wotte, the new Dutch trainer of Universitatea Craiova remained speechless. Such thing can not happen.

Our team: Lung - Bărboianu, Găman, Iliev, Bălace - Prepeliţă, Paunovic ('45 Trica), Firţulescu ('61 Gangioveanu) - M. Costea, Dina ('81 A.Piturca), F. Costea

Our goal was scored by Mihai Dina('19).