Adrian Mutu criticized Mircea Lucescu’s national team, after Romania

Adrian Mutu (45 years old) was at the match between Romania and Lithuania and criticized the performance of the national team prepared by Mircea Lucescu.

“Briliantul”, the best scorer in the history of the Romanian national team, with 35 goals scored, equal to Gică Hagi, specified at the end of the confrontation with Lithuania that the turf negatively influenced the performance of Mircea Lucescu’s students this evening.

Adrian Mutu criticized the performance of Mircea Lucescu’s national team in Romania Lithuania 3-1

Adrian Mutu discussed the good and bad aspects of the confrontation with Lithuania. Mutu said he was happy with the result achieved by the “tricolors”, who achieved an important victory on a difficult ground. Moreover, Mutu noted that there was a period of time when the initiative in attack was more on the side of the Lithuanians, but the final result is the most important.

“The result is good, but the game was not as good as the one in Kosovo, but in the end the result matters. I can’t say if I liked anyone in particular.

Mihăilă scored, then we had an apathetic period in which we allowed them quite a lot and this was also seen on the scoreboard. The most important thing is that we won.

The pitch is very bad and that has confused us, because we have a team full of technical players, so we need a better pitch. Unfortunately, the turf was very bad, we hope that it will be better in the next matches”, said Adrian Mutu, according to the report Digi Sport.

Romania, free way to the World Cup in 2026

If they win their Nations League group, Romania has a clear path to the World Cup. The national team trained by Mircea Lucescu aims to qualify for the final tournament in 2026, and ranking first in the Nations League group is the first step towards the World Championship. Romania would manage to be in the 2nd ballot box for the World Cup preliminaries, and the route would be much easier.

The ballots, if Romania wins the Nations League group, would look like this:

Urn 1: France, Spain, England, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal, Italy, Croatia, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Austria

Urn 2: Ukraine, Turkey, Poland, Sweden, Wales, Hungary, Serbia, Slovakia, Romania, Czech Republic, Scotland, Norway

Urn 3: Slovenia, Greece, Ireland, Finland, Albania, Georgia, Iceland, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel

Urn 4: Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Armenia, Belarus, Kosovo, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Cyprus, Lithuania, Latvia, Faroe Islands

Box 5: Moldova, Andorra, Malta, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein, San Marino