Dan Alexa: “the refereeing – a shame!”

The head coach of the Polytechnic was satisfied with how his students managed with a colleague less in the failure at Buftea, score 0-1 with Rapid. Dan Alexa considers that the decision of the referee Ionuţ Coza to eliminate Cristian Bocşan has unbalanced the match.

“I can only say about this game: the refereeing – a shame! Like the whole behavior. I want to congratulate my team, because they played a very good match in ten people from the 17th-18th minute… we had one-on-one situations with the goalkeeper. We were organized. Sure, Rapid put pressure, but they had opportunities when we took a risk. Because we had nothing to defend. But as referee, Coza, I said I do not comment on the referee, but… was foul in the attack in the first phase, foul on Coada clear. And then the natural movement of the hand, from what I saw on replays. The balance is broken. Until that minute, Rapid had not entered the box. We put pressure on them and somehow controlled the initial hostilities. Coza, a referee I’ve appreciated so far. But you know very well, a Rapid supporter, he was in Rapid’s gallery! I said it, I assume everything! Because it’s true. Rapid didn’t need Coza’s refereeing to win today. For everything that happened, because we are a small team, a team with very little money, which we are struggling to get. We were coming on an upward trend, we had our chance. I think that elimination was decisive for what happened next “, Dan Alexa declared at Digi Sport.

“We still hope for the 4th place, we play with Mioveni on Monday, the team showed all the time that it deserves to be in this play-off. I played at least on an equal footing with all opponents, except for the match in Mioveni. I am very proud of my players, because today they played a good game, they had a rhythm. It is very difficult to play from the 18th minute in ten people against Rapid and even so I missed the bigger opportunities “, the technician of the Polytechnic also specified.