Steaua Bucharest

Steaua Bucharest 3(Popa, Sanmartean, Varela) - 1 U Craiova
Astra 5-0 Brasov

"If Steaua will go to play-off, Steaua will enter in european group stages for eleventh time consecutive. Steaua never missed the chance to enter in european group stages since 2004."


Today is the day when we will go to UCL play-off. Ha ha!  

Hope that we will play with the strongest team that we can draw. We can beat them again!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAL_88v5_yI&feature=youtu.be&t=1m32s

Grats for proceeding to the next round!

Slovan Liberec(Cze) 2-3 Astra(Rou)
Total: 2-6

Viktoria Plzen(Cze) 1-4 Petrolul(Rou)
Total: 2-5

Awesome goal from Adrian Mutu   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC_LNj30L_8

All Romanian teams to go group stages at least.

That was a nice goal from Mutu. Still has the technique.

Some of possible opponents for Astra and Petrolul: Inter Milano, Dinamo Moscova or Tottenham.
They will have better opponents, on paper, so will be very taft. Anyway, Slovan Liberec and Viktoria Plzen were better on paper...

Lord Awesome wrote:All Romanian teams to go group stages at least.

That was a nice goal from Mutu. Still has the technique.

Yes, he also scored a nice goal in the first match with Plzen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFr0Aceym_w

Pff, pretty much bad luck at draws.
Steaua Bucharest - Ludogorets
The hardest opponent.

Well, Ludogorets should be manageable nonetheless. Basel kicked them out before, too.

rwo power wrote:Well, Ludogorets should be manageable nonetheless. Basel kicked them out before, too.

They are better this year and Steaua is weaker than last year. It will be very balanced match and now I'm not that confident...
They have done a good performance in EL group stages. After first place in group stages, they eliminated Lazio.
http://www.flashscore.com/soccer/europe/europa-league-2013-2014/
Chances are 50%-50%.

Well, you have to do your very best!   

That's for sure.   

Steaua lost with 2-4 this summer the friendly match against Ludogorets.

PS: Petrolul - Dinamo Zagreb & Astra - Lyon

CFR Cluj 0-1 (Tanase) Steaua

Botosani 1-0 Astra
Iasi 1-5 Petrolul

-> Breeveld from Pandurii to Steaua

<- Florin Gardos from Steaua to Southampton for 7.5 milion euros. He was an important player for us, but I think Varela is better, anyway   
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/southampton-plot-florin-gardos-transfer-4033323#.U-h44fl_v4U

We almost transferred a great striker (Younes Hamza), but Ludogorets came with a fast contra-offer and signed him. It's very weird that, after we thought that he will play for us in play-off against Ludogorets, now he will play against us for them. I think he will score against us in play-off, it's a big lose  

Wow, that was a nasty piece of business there. I hope you will prevail anyway!

At least, we have something to boo on the stadium: Hamza   

It had to be Ludogorets as well. Maybe they thought they could win victory from Steaua.

Gardos I think is an important loss for Steaua. Both him and Chriches were undoubtely the best player at Steaua's Defense. Good luck to both.

Varela's all right for now. I think he's proven to be an aerial threat for Dead Ball Situations. Szukala's experienced as well so Steaua are OK in the back methinks.

Ludogorets is full of South American talent which actually blends well with the Balkan Style of Football so I can see why this game will be tough.

Lord Awesome wrote:It had to be Ludogorets as well. Maybe they thought they could win victory from Steaua.

The bulgarians are too optimistic. I'm not saying that Steaua is far better, but I think, even if Steaua is in a pretty bad form, it will be a balanced match.

Tonev(a Ludogorets fan):
''Hamza just signed with Ludogorec, Ludogorec is wining both games, steaua is shit they barley beat some team from Kazakhstan last round, Ludogorec is a very fast and explosive team that took out PSV and Lazio from Europe last year Steaua has a minimal Chance at best steaua is finished this round.''

About Chiriches and Gardos... yeah, they are an awesome couple of central defenders for the level of romanian football. At least, I can watch them at national team.
PS: Gardos is on the UEFA paper for the play-off, so he may play for us.

https://twitter.com/SouthamptonFC/status/499948568124612609/photo/1   
Good luck at your new team, Gardos!

Can't wait for the match   
https://i.servimg.com/u/f39/18/49/65/27/cam00212.jpg

Steaua 6(Keseru, Keseru, Keseru, Keseru, Keseru, Keseru) - 0 Pandurii
 
http://www.flashscore.ro/meci/Gl8Rmh9M/#sumar-meci
Except Arlauskis, Varela and Sanmartean, we played with substitutes looking forward for the match against Ludogorets.
Who wants Hamza when we have Keseru?   I hope he will be starter against Ludogo.

Steaua on the first page
http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/video/videoid=2132392.html?autoplay=true#latest

http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/season=2015/matches/round=2000547/match=2014200/prematch/focus/index.html

Bookmarkers consider that Ludogorets are favourites, they are giving 56% chances to qualify for Ludogorets and 44% for Steaua. It's a little bit weird, anyway...

That's awesome man. You actually got to see the game. Nice

Well, I actually saw this game on my Desktop as well.

Sanmartean is awesome, man. The guy could easily be playing for a top league with the way he's been playing lately. Chipciu had a lot of chances as well but the Bulgarian GK was immense as well. Even stopped a Penalty from Chipciu. I was glad that Chipciu got the better of the GK in the end. Steaua score and received no goals. Chances should favor Steaua now, I think.

Also a comment for the Steaua manager Galca. He reminds me so much of Emery. He was pretty emotional the whole game and his tactics seem very similar. From what I've seen he likes to play direct Football and likes to pressure alot wherever the ball is. When Steaua had the ball I saw some free-flowing Football and when they defended there was always limited space for the Ludogorec players. Hopefully he proves to be smart when facing tougher opposition. But for now he left a good impression on me. I like him.