If they will really end up meeting again in more than a month in the round-trip final of the promotion bracket in League 2, it remains to be seen, but it is certain that it took a lot from the people of Oradea and Timisoara, more precisely not anymore less than 4 matches, to tie something in the direct meetings, until Saturday strictly tied in the series, and in the end very little separated them, namely a single goal scored by Florin Chitaş at the entrance in the last 10 minutes of the first half bye from 17:00 on “Electrica”, in the middle round of the play-off phase in League 3, stage 5: SSU Politehnica – FC Bihor 0-1 (0-1).
The only goal that made the difference at the fourth call in the meetings of this championship between the white-violets and the red-blues, after a 1-1 also against “Electrica”, respectively results of 1-1 but also 0-0 against “Iuliu Bodola” from Oradea, a single goal but with major significance, applying the first home correction to the Banatians in League 3, but above all ensuring Florin Farcaş’s students an advance win, with 4 rounds left to play, of the play-off phase in Series 8, champions therefore, not only of the regular season, but also of the value group I, which will ensure them playing the play-off semifinal in the company of the occupant of the second step in the play-off of Series 7, currently CSM Deva, but also of the second leg with the Hunedorians on their own lawn in Crişana.
However, how poorly designed the current competitive system is not only of League 3, I can point out precisely the people from Bihor, but for example also the people from Resisi based on their unfortunate experience in 2022, because the Oradeans won in vain in the last edition of the third echelon as well as the regular season of the Series 10 championship, and then the play-off phase, because all these evidences were not enough for the natural promotion and the ticket to the Second League.
And to cap it all, how crookedly tailored the current competitive system really is from several points of view, not only of League 3, I can also signal the Bihors through the prism of the fact that, already ahead of schedule, champions of the play-off phase, with two stages last spring before the Bistrites, even with 4 rounds at the current time in front of the police, they were and are forced to maintain the level of motivation in the perspective of maybe even 4 playoff games and in some meetings that have become rather “filler” ” and with a lower stake in their case, given the assurance of the first place in the first value group.
Even so, however, the joy of the moment could not be missed, but on the contrary, enjoyed to the fullest near the Green Forest of Timișoara, and was enjoyed naked by the small gallery of red-blues on Criş, bathed in the sun of the last Saturday of April on “Electrica”, on the eve of Floriilor.
A Florin, Chitaş, already in the 36th minute, already beating another Florin, the leader’s coach, Farcaş, with a diagonal too close to the edge of the grass for Murariu, enough for a tie in a duel proving the saying “to the praised tree, don’t go with the bag”.
They didn’t go with the bag, but with the classic repertoire of the galleries at the time of a traditional western derby, the viola fans giving another recital until, at the end, a few of them gave a roar to the hora excited by the “blues” from Oradea, and it was really a typical atmosphere for a game on the Oradea – Timişoara axis, only the game provided highlighting the decline of some former first-division teams.
He actually swallows dry at all these reunions in the III-a League, just as he swallows dry but approaches with great, great caution any promise in full electroral campaign, detachment with which he received the viola gallery and in the tribune of II of the little “Electrica” the news from the government regarding a new “Dan Păltinișanu” stadium, coming in the same first part of 2024 when the foundation stone of the new arena in Calea Buziașului was already laid.
What beautiful dreams, but the awakening to reality consists in the fact that Timişoara has a single divisional grouping, and that only in the 3rd League, currently in 2nd place in the western series but, of course, with 8 points ahead and a view towards a play-off semi-final possibly with the Girozens, they are “at home” in the 2nd return leg, and that only divisional Viola is forced to organize its matches in the pile of “Electricians”, a useful lifeline.
The difference between the electoral donuts and the reality of the moment being huge, on the scale of the differences between the value of the first-division football of some times with games between FC Bihor and Poli in Division A, and what is played in the year of grace 2024 in the “replays” on the axis Oradea – Timişoara, meeting each other so much that they feel like it.
And wait, because, according to the ineptitude of “272-0’s football”, the “blues” and the police are set to meet again on May 11 in Oradea on the occasion of the penultimate round of the play-off, therefore for the fifth time in the current season , while, by no means excluded, he could already hold the tickets to the dam, so that the stakes of the derby will be dragged even more into ridicule, rainwater, for a more accurate picture of the scams invented by the FRF.
It is important, but it seems that the same words are circulated with lame headlines about how it will be done and how it will be handled in the perspective of building the new stadiums, suddenly talking about the Champions League, AC Milan and other fairy tales. Not at all, instead, about “inverted” pyramids, losing sight of the fact that some bases were cut in the capital of Banat.
Really, “by ourselves” can be invoked with symbolic power, but what else could those new ones be? This, for example, among others, and the finding that even the return of the prodigal sons to the hearth can be summed up for the moment, given the haste that invariably spoils the work and the imprudent “overnight” forcings, with appearances lasting not even an innings. But always hope always dies last.
The fans hoped for a viola at the equalizing goal, “Poli”, however, leaving the successes perhaps for the exit on Friday at 18:00 in Carani, then for the reception after Easter of those from CSC Peciu Nou, possibly for the trip to Oradea or “breaking the ice” at East station in front of those from Phoenix Buziaş.
They didn’t break it with the Bihors, the young police team remaining without a win in 4 attempts in front of the series leader, so all they have to do is shoot for the reunion with the red-blues in the play-off final, during which they would have set up the aspect of overtaking Buziesene for the first time.
What is “Poli” struggling with in the III League, not to pass the 2022 champion of Division D Timiş, Phoenix Buziaş, in 4 attempts so far, capping everything and recording the first defeat at home after being relegated to the third tier.
And yet, he has the second place with an intact advantage, also of 8 points, after Petruescu’s players overturned the score in the 2nd half of the trip to Peciu Nou, where they quickly scored twice in the round of the regular season as well , in which they drew 2-2 against “Comunal”, this time defeating the white-greens 2-1 but especially doing the police a favor.
“Violeti” are 12 points behind the Bihorenes who became champions of the series, but also 8 ahead of the newly promoted Peciului Nou, being blown in the back of their necks by Phoenix, by 3 points.
Variations on the same theme, in a 3rd league championship with a competitive system in the image and likeness of FRF, and enjoying yourself without cringing at “272-0’s football” really takes up all your time. Absurd theater.
Politehnica approaching him in the 5th stage of the play-off with Murariu – Haloş, Bocşan – capt., Radu Ciurel, Pamfile (90th minute, Vlaicu) – Rotariu, Olariu, Pureca, Prună (75, Marincu), Popa (75, Istratie), Curescu, while Miklos – Oprea, David Ciurel, Adamcsik, Roşu and Sfichi remained on the reserve bench.
FC Bihor prevailed in Timisoara with Pînzariu, ex-policeman Călin Jurj, Preklet, Băican, Gagyi, captain Ricardo-Florin Farcaş, ex-policeman Gîdea (minute 89, Ioviţă), Calugher – replaced from minute 64 by ex-policeman Bogdan Vasile, Vînau (80, Moga ), Chitaş (80, Ciocan) and the goal scorer Sergiu Jurj, replaced in the 64th minute with Tincău, Bob – Săutiuţ, Hosu and Bactăr remaining on the bench.
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