Daniel Mitrita

Defensive Midfielder - Free Agent
24 Feb 2047
Sunday
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1050 Edition

The Petrolul Courier

10 Sep 2046
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Dragos Deac

90 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Petrolul lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Petrolul throw away a 3-goal lead

3 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Dinamo Bucharest the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Petrolul will enjoy reviewing.

Player ratings

A brace, and Florin Bancu takes the afternoon — 8.12

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Florin Bancu provided it, and the 8.12 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Mariano Peretti yet — 8.18

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.18 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Noa Ojea signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Noa Ojea and Petrolul agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Petrolul

Jhon Banguera 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.

Squad

Words at Petrolul training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sebastian Ademola is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Andrés Flores

Marked 8.22 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Match

Florin Bancu rescues a point for Petrolul

It needed Florin Bancu to find the net to bring anything home at all: 4‑4 against Dinamo Bucharest, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

Back issues
1049 Edition

The Petrolul Courier

3 Sep 2046
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Dragos Deac

97 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Petrolul lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Mihai Deac keeps Petrolul in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Mihai Deac signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mihai Deac commits to Petrolul for another 2 years.

Squad

Jhon Banguera 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 Petrolul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

CFR Cluj take the points off Petrolul

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Match

No time for CFR Cluj to settle

The goal that put CFR Cluj ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Petrolul equalised, 2 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Andrés Flores

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Patrick Elyounoussi takes the honours

Marked 7.75 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Petrolul had the best player on the pitch.

Player ratings

The cruellest goal, and it is Lukas Masopust's

A touch he did not want, a bounce he could not have read, and his name in the wrong column. There is no consoling a man after one of these, and Petrolul will not try tonight.

In brief