Ilie Dumitrescu named the teams that will reach the play-offs: “You’ll see!”

Shortly after the final whistle in the CFR Cluj – Rapid Bucharest 1-1 match, Ilie Dumitrescu (55 years old) took a quick look at the Superliga standings and said which, in his opinion, will be the teams that will reach the playoffs -off.

The former great striker of the national team did not need much time to think and instantly nominated 5 teams that are not allowed to miss the final battle of the championship.

Ilie Dumitrescu does not anticipate too many surprises in the fight for the play-off

The draw recorded at the “Dr. Constantin Rădulescu”, score 1-1 with CFR Cluj, keeps Rapid Bucharest out of the play-off places. Giulești have 24 points, one less than the next three ranked, Sepsi, Dinamo and Craiova University. However, the last two mentioned also have a less contested game.

Also, if they fail to beat Unirea Slobozia in Sunday night’s match, FCSB will also remain outside the play-off zone at the end of the 17th round.

Despite these details, Ilie Dumitrescu supports that things will settle down in the return of the regular season, and before entering the play-offs there won’t be too many surprises at the top of the standings.

The current TV analyst nominated without hesitation 5 formations that will be in the play-off, and these are U Cluj, CFR Cluj, Universitatea Craiova, FCSB and Rapid. Thus, there was only one position left unallocated by Ilie Dumitrescu, and according to the former great striker, there will be a big battle for this. Petrolul, Dinamo or Sepsi, teams that are in the top 6 at the moment, plus Oțelul or Farul will have to fight to reach the play-offs, Ilie Dumitrescu hinted:

The return has just begun, you’ll see. It’s very hard. There are real chances for U Cluj, but if you look at the ranking, it will be very difficult for certain teams that are not used to this fight and the pressure of the result stage by stage to stay in the upper part. Also Rapid, FCSB, Craiova and CFR Cluj will be in the play-off. And U Cluj. Some will disappear. The fight for the title is balanced. FCSB loses at Botoșani, CFR, before, if it was 1-0, it never lost again, Craiova lost important points. The top teams lost a lot of matches. But to stay there, there is still a lot to do, there are still many matches to play. There will be no surprises in the play-off!”, declared Ilie Dumitrescu, at Digi Sport.

FCSB – Unirea Slobozia, Petrolul – Dinamo and UTA Arad – Universitatea Craiova, matches of interest for the play-offs

There are still four scheduled matches in the 17th stage of the Romanian Super League, and the most important in the fight for the play-off are FCSB – Unirea Slobozia, Petrolul – Dinamo and UTA Arad – Universitatea Craiova.

With a success registered in front of Slobozia on Sunday evening, FCSB can climb, temporarily at least, to the 3rd place in the ranking, 3 points behind the leader U Cluj.

On the other side, Petrolul and Dinamo are fighting to stay in the play-off zone, so the dispute between the two promises to be an electrifying one.

Instead, Craiova University meets an injured UTA Arad, which comes after two consecutive defeats, 0-1 against Dinamo and 0-2 against Rapid. And with a ticked off success in this confrontation, the Oltenians would come within two points of the leader U Cluj and would equal CFR.