The Pandurii Chronicle
Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrei Man
18 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pandurii lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Both of them Mihai Iancu's — 8.52
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.52, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Vlad Hagi runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Pandurii
Vlad Hagi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Matvey Lukin falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match14 Nov 2026
Pandurii see off Astra
Three points for Pandurii, 2‑1 the final word against Astra in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Pandurii pick somebody else ahead of Ovidiu Keseru
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
The pass was always on for Ovidiu Moldovan
Chances created: 5. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Bogdan Vătăjelu spends the afternoon fouling
Fouls conceded: 6. He was booked, he was fortunate not to be booked twice, and the referee had run out of patience long before the end.
In brief
- Loan watch George Bancu has made Astra’s shirt his own
- The terraces The press have found their man in Mihai Iancu
- The terraces The stand has a song for Mihai Iancu