The Petrolul Courier
Squad10 Sep 2046
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.
Match8 Sep 2046
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 ratings10 Sep 2046
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 ratings10 Sep 2046
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.
Squad10 Sep 2046
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.
Squad10 Sep 2046
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.
Squad10 Sep 2046
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 ratings10 Sep 2046
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.
Match8 Sep 2046
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
- Player ratings The cruellest goal, and it is Lukas Masopust's
- Market Razvan Deac leaves for nothing
- Market Daniel Mitrita leaves for nothing