“You think that’s the problem?!”

Marius Șumudică announced that he is not even thinking about resigning from Rapid and lit up live on TV when it came to how he manages things at the team.

The arrival of Marius Șumudica at Rapid did not improve things much to the team and after three matches in which the future looked promising, things took a downward slope again, and the failure in Botoșani put even more “straw on the fire”, already talking about the possible departure of the coach.

Marius Șumudică, vehemently related to how his opponents view him at the moment: “Do you think this is the problem?”

The coach of Rapid had a live intervention on TV in which he called things out and specified what is happening at the team he took over a few weeks ago. Marius Șumudică does not consider that the problems faced by the team since his arrival are due to his attitude on the sidelines.

“Did I tell you that you were going to see another Shumudica? Do you think that’s the problem? That I’m not aggressive on the sidelines? They are players with personality, they have to understand… You probably thought so. I have a dialogue with the players. I don’t insult my players, I don’t swear at them. There are all kinds of coaches in this world who bring insults.

It’s not about that, I’m probably calmer than in previous years. Probably also the experience, I’m older too, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t put my heart into it. The rapid will climb where it belongs. I know what we are doing and what is happening in the team. We had discussions… We do not exclude this drama of luck.

In Botoșani, we played on a rather difficult pitch. I had to give the team an air of superiority in the game. Rapid has long been a reactive, counter-attacking team. It is not easy to turn a reactive team into an attacking one. This is not done overnight, even if in the first half we had two rare opportunities.

At Slobozia we had two rare opportunities, at Iasi we have two opportunities to make it 3-0. We had opportunities in the first half, Botoșani none. We start the “soft” second half and score a goal. It’s not very easy to come back from 1-0 down. I sent Săpunaru up front and he also had a great opportunity” stated Marius Șumudică, at Digisport.

Fast, dramatic failure on the move at the “red lantern”

Before this stage, FC Botoșani was last ranked in the Superligabut managed an unexpected victory at home with Rapid. Chica-Rosa and Aldair scored the hosts’ goals, which save Botoșani, for the moment, from last place.

Rapid ticks off the third failure in this championship and the second since the arrival of Marius Șumudica on the technical bench. After 12 stages, the Giulești are in 12th place, five points away from the first place that leads to the play-offs.