The Pandurii Chronicle
Match26 Aug 2028
14 matches without a win for Pandurii
The run now stands at 14, and the questions being asked around Pandurii are no longer polite ones.
Match28 Aug 2028
Every point is an argument now for Pandurii
Position 10 and 1 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Match23 Aug 2028
Pandurii bow out of the cup
Voluntari go through and Pandurii go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
The dugout28 Aug 2028
Matteo Marini: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Pandurii have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Cosmin Bancu in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Pandurii this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Cosmin Bancu was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match26 Aug 2028
Botosani take the points off Pandurii
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout28 Aug 2028
Nicusor Ratiu gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout28 Aug 2028
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Alexandru Coman left the room before anybody could ask which.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at Pandurii
- The dugout Bogdan Marin left out for tactical reasons at Pandurii
- Looking ahead Antonio Borduşanu faces his old club