Cristi Balaj, harsh reaction against the refereeing at the Dinamo Bucharest match

Cristi Balaj, the president of CFR Cluj, had an acid reaction to the referee after the draw with Dinamo, score 1-1.

The president of CFR Cluj, Cristi Balaj, was not at all pleased with the manner of refereeing during the game with Dinamo Bucharest. The former FIFA referee highlighted several errors made by the referee brigade.

Cristi Balaj, harsh reaction to the refereeing in Dinamo – CFR Cluj 1-1

Cristi Balaj complained the granting of erroneous free kicks against CFR Cluj, and the Transylvanian official said that because of such a phase, Dinamo managed to score. Moreover, Balaj bluntly said that the referees were afraid to take certain decisions against Dinamo.

“The disappointment is huge. I haven’t seen such mediocre refereeing in a long time, to try to be classy. I didn’t think there was such a thing at League 1 level. It stirred the spirits in our goal when the striker just got a hand on the opponent. You are allowed to grab the opponent. Mentally, you have a jam and want to see things that didn’t happen. There is no blowing the whistle on something that didn’t happen unless you have a mental jam. The kick from the corner that Dinamo gave, and I don’t blame the assistant because he was masked… Cojocaru had an excellent angle and saw that the striker cleared the ball. It doesn’t matter the distance so much, the angle. An unwritten rule is that when the referee does not know whether it was a corner or a goal kick, he awards a goal kick because a goal may be reached. It’s an unwritten rule. You can’t help but have doubts at least. Some free kicks were given for the hosts under pressure from the crowd. The entry from the 61st minute on Munteanu. He goes into it with no desire to play the ball. It’s a shot in the neck area. It’s an obvious empty situation. Why does the VAR not intervene? It’s an obvious empty situation. If no foul was shown, if the game is not restarted, the VAR can intervene. Take a picture and judge by the picture. It’s a red card. I don’t know why they were afraid. There were wrongly awarded free kicks, the wrongly awarded goal from a corner. Elimination, invention of a foul by a referee. It was a big offside. When the distance between the attacker and the defender is one meter, he gives the decision to the offside referee and then you have time to draw as many lines as you want”, said Cristi Balaj, at Digi Sport.

Dan Petrescu attributed the draw with Dinamo to medical problems

However, the visiting technician, Dan Petrescu, had a speech much more potentized at the end of the match at the Arc de Triumf stadium. “The Badger” did not hesitate to criticize his players for the lack of inspiration in the first half of the game, but he wanted to mention the fact that some footballers of CFR Cluj played with certain medical problems.

“Today, three players who started the match were uncertain. I did player testing. Camora felt bad, Louis Munteanu played with back pain. About five players. I want to make the team, but it’s still a tough time. I think we could produce more in attack. We are not talking about the podium, we are talking about the play-offs. There are 12 teams, they will fight until the end. It’s not long, the stages are passing, all the teams are there. Now we are in the fight for the play-offs, I don’t think anyone is thinking about the title. It’s playing. We have good players as well, everyone who plays there has good players”, Petrescu also said, according to the previously mentioned source.