After FCSB only ended in a tie, 1-1, on Tuesday evening, the first leg of the 2nd preliminary round of the Champions League with Maccabi Tel Aviv on Thursday is the turn of the other three Romanian teams to perform in the Europa League and the Conference League respectively.
Revelation Corvinul Hunedoara has a difficult to impossible mission in Sibiu, where they play their home games in the Europa League, meeting the Croatian vice-champion Rijeka at 20:00. The difference between the two teams is easy to understand from the fact that the value of the Hunedor team is a maximum of 6 million euros, while the total for the guests is 40 million and two players, Niko Jankovic and Tony Fruk, are estimated at 5 million each.
But the coach of the League 2 team from us, Florin Maxim, does not despair and says that things were the same in the 1st preliminary round with the vice-champion of Hungary, Paksi, and Corvinul is the team that went further (4-0 in Budapest, 0- 2 at home). The match will be broadcast live by Digi Sport 3 and Prima Sport 2.
In the Conference League, both representatives, CFR Cluj and Universitatea Craiova, are now making their debut in the new European season. The Railways are heavy favorites at home to Belarus’ Neman Grodno. After this match, the former player of UTA, who left a year ago for Grenoble, in Ligue 2, the Moldavian international Virgil Postolachi, will arrive in Cluj. Neman Grodno played with FCSB two years ago and it was very difficult for the Bucharesters to advance, 0-0 and 1-1.
CFR played two seasons ago, in the company of another team from Belarus, Shakhtior Sologorsk, and it was also very difficult, 0-0 and 1-0 in Cluj. In order to force the best possible result in Cluj, Dan Petrescu will play in attack with three men: Deac, Bîrligea, Kamara. The match starts at 20:30 and will be broadcast on Digi Sport 1 and Prima Sport 1.
The Oltenians have their first away game, from 21:15 in Branik, Slovenia, against Maribor, a team where midfielder Alexandru Crețu played for several years. Only those who have an account on the Superbet.ro website can watch the match in Live Streaming format. In fact, the match had been bought by Athena 1 but they forgot to make room for it in the schedule and instead of the match there will be a replay of some episodes of the Adela series. However, the Antena Play platform, for a monthly subscription fee, will broadcast it.
Maribor is a team that played in the Champions League groups six seasons ago and that evolves in Europe every year, so it has a lot of international experience. But it seems to be in a less favorable moment, as evidenced by the fact that it was unexpectedly eliminated in the preliminary round 1 of the Europa League by the Bulgarians from Botev Plovdiv.
Source: www.cotidianul.ro
