Although they didn’t have a special motivation, after already mathematically securing the 1st place in the series from the last stage, the players from FC Bihor still gave their fans a holiday gift: a new victory.
Thus, on Friday evening, the red-blues defeated the CSC Peciu Nou team at home, with a score of 1-0 and reached a total of 62 points.
It was the fifth consecutive game in which the students of coach Florin Farcaş did not concede a goal. It is also their fifth win in the play-offs and 19th in the current Ligue III season.
Held at the Iuliu Bodola Stadium, in the presence of approximately one thousand spectators, the match in the 6th stage of the 8th Series play-off was decided in the second half, after a goal scored by team captain Ricardo Farcaş, who scored with a header in the 80th minute.
No goal in the first half
The first opportunity of the game belonged to the team from Timișoara, which, in the 7th minute, sent a shot from 22 meters, through Marco Giuricici, but was stopped by goalkeeper Mihai Pînzariu.
Oradea’s reply came three minutes later, when Adrian Gîdea sent from the right, and Vadim Calugher restarted from 10 meters, over the crossbar.
In the 25th minute, FC Bihor had a cursive offensive action on the left side. Gîdea sent Sergiu Jurj into the box, who passed behind to Vadim Calugher, and the midfielder of the Oradea team shot from 16 meters, just wide of the bar.
Until the break, the guests had another good opportunity. After an action on the right, the ball was passed inside the box to Denis Bud, who sent it over the goal.
The last scoring phase of the first half happened in the 45th minute, when FC Bihor benefited from a shot from the corner of the field on the right side. Adrian Gîdea executed, the ball was rejected from 6 meters to Florin Chitaş, who, from 14 meters, sent a volley just over the crossbar.
photo source: Facebook FC Bihor – Alex Covaci
Penalty missed by the guests
In the second half, the guests started a bit braver, and in the 54th minute they benefited from a shot from 11 meters, after the intervention of Ricardo Farcaş on Ioan Fandel in the box. The referee awarded a penalty, and the kick from 11 meters was executed by Marco Giuricici, but he sent it into the crossbar and the scoreboard remained unchanged.
After this penalty, the red-blues woke up, started to press and attack the opposing goal more and more dangerously. In the 71st minute, the people of Oradea requested a shot from 11 meters, after a foray into the box by Florin Chitaş, who fell following contact with an opponent. Oltean referee Adelin Pavel, however, allowed the game to continue.
In the 76th minute, Ricardo Farcaş employed Marius Hosu from the center of the field, who took over in the box, advanced on the left side and shot from an angle, but he took the goalkeeper off the hook. The corner kick that followed was executed by Florin Chitaş, and Csaba Preklet restarted with a header from 6 meters, but the goalkeeper held back.
The captain scores again with his head
The score opened in the 80th minute. The same Florin Chitaş executed a new corner from the left, high in the corner of the small box, at the first bar, from where the captain Ricardo Farcaş deflected with his head to the far corner and beat the goalkeeper, score 1-0.
This phase would be the last and most dangerous opportunity in the game, and the game ended with Oradea’s victory.
FC Bihor thus ticked off their fifth success in the play-off and is the authoritative leader of the series, having 12 points more than the second-placed Poli Timişoara, who also won on Friday evening, 3-2 away from home. on the field of Phoenix Buziaş, so that she also mathematically secured qualification for the barrage.
photo source: Facebook FC Bihor – Alex Covaci
Deserved victory
“It was a hard-earned victory, a deserved victory. We fought for the goal almost the whole half. (…) We are in a period where the players are quite confident, given the fact that they have already won the play-off and reached the play-offs. Thus, a state of confidence was created, but also a state of relaxation, a lack of concentration at the time of the offensive game. But, all in all, it is gratifying that we won, we knew how to suffer, considering that the opponents had a penalty. That’s how it is in football, but I think it’s a well-deserved victory, because we dominated from start to finish,” said the coach of the FC Bihor team, Florin Farcaş.
In the ranking, with three stages before the end, FC Bihor is the authoritative leader, with 62 points, Politehnica Timișoara is in second place with 50 points, CSC Peciu Nou is in 3rd place with 39 points, and Phoenix Buziaș is in position 4th, with 36 points.
As a result, it is already known, FC Bihor will participate in the first-place promotion play-off, and Politehnica Timișoara will play the second-place play-off.
In the next stage, FC Bihor will play on Tuesday, May 7, from the same time, 18, with Phoenix Buziaş, also at the “Iuliu Bodola” Municipal Stadium.
FC Bihor Oradea – CSC Peciu Nou 1-0 (0-0)
Scored: Ricardo Farcaș (min. 80)
FC Bihor: M. Pânzariu – C. Jurj, Cs. Preklet, A. Băican, K. Gagyi – R. Farcaş – captain, V. Calugher (min. 61 Sg. Ciocan), A. Vînău (min. 46 A. Moga) – A. Gîdea (min. 90+1 L . Iovita), Sg. Jurj (min. 46 M. Hosu) and Fl. Chitaş (min. 81 B. Vasile). Coach: Florin Farcaş
CSC Peciu Nou: M. Braşoveanu – M. Rosenblum (min. 75 Fl. Dobie), I. Mera, Ov. Buză (min. 62 Ov. Radu), A. Gania, M. Giuricici (min. 75 S. Sporin), A. Ignea, D. Bud (min. 85 Ed. Amariei), C. Ureche, I. Fandel, M. Enciu (min. 85 R. Țurcaș). Coach: Robert Frusa
Referees: Adelin Pavel (Osica de Jos – Olt) – Doru Zamfir (Slatina) and Zsolt Kopriva (Carei)
Observer for referees: Octavian Şovre (Satu Mare). Delegate for the game: Ioan Papp (Carei)
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