The Metaloglobus Bucharest Sentinel
Match28 Oct 2028
Nobody wins at Metaloglobus Bucharest
18 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Player ratings30 Oct 2028
Up for the corner, and Damià Sabater delivers — 7.56
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Damià Sabater scored, was marked 7.56, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad30 Oct 2028
George Puşcaş 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 Metaloglobus Bucharest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Oct 2028
A row about effort at Metaloglobus Bucharest
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mario Tudose was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout30 Oct 2028
The manager makes an example of Stefan Višić
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match28 Oct 2028
Metaloglobus Bucharest find a way past Steaua Bucharest
Steaua Bucharest made Metaloglobus Bucharest work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad30 Oct 2028
Metaloglobus Bucharest count the cost of losing Razvan Maxim
35 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout30 Oct 2028
A promise honoured at Metaloglobus Bucharest
Something was said to Dani Iglesias and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Player ratings30 Oct 2028
George Puşcaş takes the honours
Marked 7.68 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Metaloglobus Bucharest had the best player on the pitch.
In brief
- Squad Metaloglobus Bucharest are still strangers to each other
- The dugout Ianis Balasa: “That is the standard”
- The dugout Omar Pašagić dropped after a run of poor form