There s a video of Romanian FIFA youtuber Theo going to this match and my man was still talking about the halftime subs when he suddenly realised a ball was heading towards the net for the 2-0 lmao, it was glorious. And no, iirc they played it safer after the goal lol
As a Romanian and a fan of FCSB, you covering this made me so so happy, and also in the romanian news, the way they presented it, that moment wasn't just happenstance, they saw FC Mitdjiland doing the same thing in other games from the kick off, and planned it, its why two players ran at the GK.
Fcsb's only loss to rangers was due to half of their starters being injured or suspended or not available(one of the starters was at home burrying his father). They played a winger and two APs in fm terms as a midfield and rangers looked really bad. They also got a goal disallowed wrongfully in the second minute. Ref whistled before the ball went in the net so var couldnt intervene. Solid performance in the EL so far.
I thought so too at the time regarding the goal but iirc there was a replay angle that seemed to show the GK managed to put his leg in front of the ball and it wasn’t Miculescu (our player) that touched it, in the post game interview he said he did. If he did that was a fair goal, if he didn’t that s a foul. Either way there should have been VAR. And you are confusing the starting lineup with the one against Midtjylland (even then Sut is a lot more of a defensive player, BWM maybe?), against Rangers we played a 4231 with Baba Alhassan (Anchor Man? Regular DM? Half Back? Idk, not much of a tactics guy) and Edjouma (Segundo Volante? Idk, he was terrible regardless and a large reason for the loss even though others are obviously to blame as well) as DMs and 3 wingers (or whatever Miculescu is, then again he just had a massively rare amazing game so I can’t say that at this point). There was also some voluntary rotation (CB Mihai Popescu for LB Radunovic, Pantea for Cretu) as we aren’t doing that well in the league (6th before this matchday but in a tight table, with a match in hand and we always start slowly in the league and pick up pace later) and we had a derby against Rapid upcoming that we never win lately. Predictably, we drew anyway
It's crazy because Midtjylland was at the forefront of set piece design a few years ago, they are a club we've heard of because of their set piece success
I'VE SEEN THIS KICK-OFF TACTIC BEFORE. Like, years ago a German amateur team in either the third division or one of the Regionalligas actually played this and scored directly. Imma try to find out where and when this was exactly. Hold on.
Uefa are doing FCSB dirty as the only mention on their website about them was when they lost against Rangers . They haven't said a peep when FCSB was dominating in the early stages and being at the top. Thanks for covering them and this goal. The best part of the goal was that he kissed the ball before chesting it in.
I think he loves ange, which is also the reason i also now have a soft spot for spurs. Any top-level club smart enough to give a chance to one of the, very obviously and consistently, most talented managers of the past decade deserves some love.
Just a note for those unaware, FCSB are the privately owned FC Steaua Bucharest, who split off from the nationally owned CSA Steaua Bucharest sports club in 1998 or so while the rest of the sports teams remained public. It's all very complicated but they've been in conflict with the original one since around 2011 and were forced to rename themselves FCSB in 2017 because the CSA reinstated the football team. UEFA attributes all previous titles, including the European Cup win in 1986, to FCSB as well. It's all very complicated.
@pavlikmorozovgaming468 I'm not really knowledgeable enough to judge whether they're the 'real' one or not, but yes the Steaua that was reinstated in 2017 is in the second division which is pretty good, considering they started from the bottom division.
There we see a difference between adult/pro football and playground football as kids. There's an actual rule against scoring goals like that on the playground. It's called the "I'm taking my ball and going home you meanie!" rule...
Also FCSB are actually a phoenix club for Steauea Bucuresti (nailed that spelling I’m sure), the only Romanian team to win the Champions League. That’s a crazy story in and of itself. It was in the ‘80s and their goalkeeper made something like four saves in the penalty shootout to help them beat Barcelona. He even got to lift the trophy for the team in honor of his heroics.
Not really a phoenix club as that implies we went bankrupt which we didn’t (unlike loads of other Romanian clubs), we were forced to be privatised by a 1998 law that barred state owned clubs from being in the first tier but then the army (OG Steaua Bucuresti owner. Close spelling lol, you just added an extra “e” at the end. Technically it s Steaua București but even us natives don’t really use the diacritics when writing online) got angry and claimed they never sold the Steaua brand so they sued us and we lost the rights to all history before 2003 so far (1998-2003 we were a nonprofit organisation rather than a share based company so that got wiped too). However, UEFA still considers FCSB to be the 1986 winners as for a long time they hadn’t even been notified of all the ongoing trials in Romania (because they weren’t fully settled and they still aren’t to this day). The army has rebuilt a new club in the 4th tier in 2017 which has the rights to the old logo and name of the team, it is called CSA (“Clubul Sportiv al Armatei”, Army Sports Club) Steaua Bucuresti. It now plays in the second tier from which it can’t promote due to the same law that started the privatisation in the first place. Similar split identity situations in Romanian football include the two Universitatea Craiovas (CSU vs FCU, in that case the argument is indeed over who is the rightful successor of the OG Craiova that went bankrupt in 2013) as well as the 3 Dinamos (one, first tier FC Dinamo 1948 has the sporting continuity just like FCSB and also the rights to the name and badge leased, the second is the third tier CS Dinamo owned by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (original Dinamo owner), the third is the third tier ACS FC Dinamo, a team created by one of Dinamo s former private investors that somehow got the rights to the name and badge for himself (yes, he is the one that s leasing it to the first tier Dinamo)). At least the 3 Dinamos are relatively civil with one another, the state owned club having hinted at a future reunification multiple times unlike CSA Steaua vs FCSB which is way more virulent and bigger as obviously there is a CL title in the argument along with the size of the fanbase (that s massive for Dinamo too, Steaua and Dinamo ARE the two biggest clubs in the country) and the personal rivalries involved.
@@Storecton You re right, I thought CSU Craiova won the rights to 1991-2011 (first exclusion)/2014 (definitive bankruptcy) too but it turns out that s not the case, the argument is over the moment the club got privatised in just like with Steaua even if Mititelu s privatised club later did go bankrupt. Why do we have all of these fights damn it?
@@edi0157 I also think is one but it finished some years ago, it was for the Politehnica Timisoara. Now I'm not sure for another one because either it was a clone or the two clubs indeed made a trade for their stuffs, and I'm talking about the CSM Resita with Catalin Rufa's team
@@Storecton Yea, Politehnica Timisoara was a whole thing too. The OG team went bankrupt and the town hall decided to move ACS Recas from a different town into Timisoara and call it ACS Politehnica Timisoara American franchise-style (the name is leased from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara, not to be confused with the one in Bucharest of the same name), they went back up to the first tier (from 2nd), then they should have been relegated but because Rapid went bankrupt themselves they weren’t, then they got into debt so hard that they got a 14 points penalty, STILL survived relegation and then finally got relegated on H2H. Where they met….ASU (later SSU) Politehnica Timisoara, a phoenix club set up by the fans that started in the 5th tier. Then got relegated again, twice in a row and eventually went bankrupt in 2021, leaving SSU as the only club representing the old Poli so they got an agreement with the university to use the brand from then on. They are now in the 3rd tier and have former GK Costel Pantilimon as director. As for Resita, I didn’t even know this one lol. It seems that the OG CSM Resita somehow managed to go bankrupt twice in 4 years between 2004-2008 (holy hell lads), got refounded, meanwhile Rufa, the owner of CSM Ramnicu Valcea (which is two counties away from Resita, 334 km according to Google though it is a bit of roundabout road path) exchanged his club for a newly (2007, this took place in 2013) founded Damila Maciuca so became the owner of that club and instantly moved it to Resita, renaming it CS Metalul Resita. At this point, FCM Resita also existed as a phoenix club but it lost town hall funding in favour of Metalul. That only lasted for two years though as relations cooled between Metalul and the town hall so they moved AGAIN, to Snagov. Where is Snagov? On the infamous for its interminable traffic every weekend DN1 road between Ploiesti and Bucharest (Bucharest dwellers spending their weekend at the mountains have to go through this road leading to huge traffic), a mere 572 km by road from Resita. Oh, and for a little while the current Rapid owner Victor Angelescu also invested there apparently. They actually lasted until 2019 when Rufa gave up the club but then went bankrupt half a season later. As for FCM, it got back its funding, renamed to CSM Scolar Resita and later CSM Resita and exists to this day, they are now 3rd in Liga 2 but idk if they actually have the promotion right due to that privatisation law. Wild story ngl, think this one takes the cake
Ahahaha, as a FCSB fan I was waiting for you to do a video on this lol, you didn’t even speak about the rest of the match nevermind the other results. I will now add some further points you might be interested in as there is more too! 1. “Why have I never heard of FCSB before?”-Well, this was an expertly avoided subject by Zealand lol but you should have if you followed European competitions for the past few years as we have been competing under this name for a while. It s all very complicated but basically we are the former Steaua that got privatised away from the army due to a 1998 law barring state-owned teams from competing in the first tier and then years later the army claimed they never sold the Steaua brand, it all went to court and the trials are still ongoing but we have lost the rights to the name and badge as well as any titles earned before 2003 (from 1998-2003 we were a non profit association rather than a share based company so 1 title, 1 cup and 1 supercup belong to the former association which no longer exists so literally no one). The army has created a new club in the 4th tier that quickly made it to the second one but is now stuck there due to the same law that forced the initial privatisation in the first place. UEFA still considers us the successor to the historical team. Yep, it s a mess and not even the only case of split identity in Romania (see the two Universitatea Craiovas, the 3 Dinamos…). 2. There s a video of Romanian FIFA youtuber Theo going to this match and my man was still talking about the halftime subs when he suddenly realised a ball was heading towards the net for the 2-0 lmao, it was glorious. 3. For the past two matches and a half we have been without our captain Olaru (CM) which is the main force of the team as he got a stupid red vs PAOK (first one was for a foul and/or complaining to the ref afterwards, the second one was for GRABBING THE BALL IN ORDER TO GAIN A FOUL. Not even the first stupid red he got this season, he also raised his leg wayyy too far and put his leg through the back of someone in order to “play for the ball” in a league game (he had no chance). Idk what is up with him this season, maybe thought he was about to leave or something but no one will buy him when he does stuff like this) and got injured after that. 4. In fact, we keep getting injuries which understandably lead the opposition coach to think we were timewasting. We played a midfield 3 with a single defensive player (Sut), a CAM (Tanase) and a winger (Baluta), the last two with barely any physical presence. We HAD more defensive options that would later come on but one of them was terrible vs Rangers (Edjouma) so they weren’t picked. Tanase pulled up with a muscle injury in the 7th minute. He still scored A FREE KICK GOAL (deflected by the wall, but still) before getting subbed off in the 30th minute. His replacement in the match (Baba Alhassan), turns out, is also injured and will be out for 5 weeks. Injuries and some stupid rotation ahead of a league derby against Rapid (we never win those anyway, might as well have rotated then. We drew 1-1) is also why we got spanked vs Rangers. Well, that, a controversial 2nd minute goal chalked off that wasn’t checked by VAR due to the ref blowing too early and Edjouma dropping a proper 1/10 performance. 5. Thanks Hoffenheim for not giving up after going down in 90+3 to Lyon and getting a 90+7 draw so we can keep being in the top 8 lol. 6. The pressing routine was planned, our guys said in the post match interview they studied Midtjylland s kick offs as they have tried this in their league as well. Also, the goalscorer Birligea especially has that in him ever since he arrived two months ago. As for the other dude (Miculescu), well, I am amazed he finally had a great game and we paid 1.7 million euros for him lol. He was dribbling around destroying his opponents this match though tbf to him, fair play! Anyway, yeah, we have done amazingly so far even if we were definitely lucky in some regards. I thought we were going to get the 9-10 points that seem to be necessary for top 24 and even that some people thought was a bit optimistic. Well, we already have 9. That the objective done, if we can push further that s great but I won’t be mad if we can’t. Our next games are Olympiakos (H, 50-50 tie imo), Hoffenheim (A, will be difficult even if they are struggling domestically), Qarabag (A, technically we should be the favourites but they have had some very impressive results lately) and United at home (why did you have to sack Ten Hag lads, I am actually scared now). By the time United comes we will have probably gotten top 24 mathematically which would be massive, can’t wait for that game especially but also the rest of them, let Olympiakos come if they dare!
They were prepared pre match too according to the coach and the goalscorer after the game as Midtjylland does this type of kickoffs in their league as well
they could just put one defender close to the goalie so he has an option to pass it away if he sees that he can't make the long ball. You can still put 9 players in the other half.
You're really telegraphing this play to the opponent if the entire squad is on the halfcourt line at kickoff. Also The goalkeeper is standing way too high up the field for this play to work. If you have to stand halfway up your own half to be able to hit off a long range kick, then this play is probably not meant for you.
Thank you for making a video about my favorite team...they also don t name now anymore Steaua Bucharest...ist only just FCSB because they went to justice and lose in front of the army who has now a football team with the name of Steaua stuck in 2nd league for the last 3 years because they don t have the right to go up...you can make a video about it...its a joke what is going on
Didn't count on the gunner eh? It's an American football term for those unfamiliar. If that guy keeps that up, the NFL might want to talk to him about that speed.
@edi0157 yea he can play it once he talks about it after its transformative either way he should link the vid or play it once because this is so annoying
@@hmp01 I know that technically he is allowed to comment on it but this is an automated system handling reviews don’t forget and 3 strikes leads to the whole channel being terminated so I get why he is cautious. I followed it fine (then again I watched the match live on TV as I support FCSB) but yeah, he could at least leave a link to the play in the comments
I was there. In the stadium. I saw this live. None of us had any idea what the fuck happened. It was glorious.
Did they do the same routine immediately after? I’m assuming not but would like to know.
There s a video of Romanian FIFA youtuber Theo going to this match and my man was still talking about the halftime subs when he suddenly realised a ball was heading towards the net for the 2-0 lmao, it was glorious. And no, iirc they played it safer after the goal lol
Yes they did, the second time the gk hit the ball properly :))))@@robbiestrong6398
As a Dane i can tell ya. Every fan of the other Superliga clubs have been playing that clip on repeat and laughed their butts off
Det er sgu smukt
You re welcome lads!
I heard the World Cup Final in 2026 is being played on Zealand's forehead.
I heard Bolivia's stadium was on top of Zealand's forehead which explains the altitude sickness
Did you guys see them breaking into his forehead for the Copa final?
I heard something the other day
I've heard that if you were to run a marathon you would cover as much distance as Zealand's forehead
Nice to see a fellow hockey fan in the footballing sphere.
I want FM to give me the freadom to do such buffoonery
Imagine conceding this goal and it knocking you out from the competition on the final day lol
The guy scored with his heart both literally and figuratively
ROMANIAN CLUB MENTIONED IN A ZEALANDISM AAAAAAAA 🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴
WHAT THE FUCK IS A UNITED WHEN WE HAVE 9 POINTS!🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴
@@fratuvictormihai9356 WHAT ON EARTH IS A MANCHESTER UNITED, NEVER HEARD OF THEM!🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴
As a Romanian fan i will tell you ,this year is one of the best in a long time for us ,quarters at Euro's now great results in the europa league .
As a Romanian and a fan of FCSB, you covering this made me so so happy, and also in the romanian news, the way they presented it, that moment wasn't just happenstance, they saw FC Mitdjiland doing the same thing in other games from the kick off, and planned it, its why two players ran at the GK.
Fcsb's only loss to rangers was due to half of their starters being injured or suspended or not available(one of the starters was at home burrying his father). They played a winger and two APs in fm terms as a midfield and rangers looked really bad. They also got a goal disallowed wrongfully in the second minute. Ref whistled before the ball went in the net so var couldnt intervene. Solid performance in the EL so far.
Rangers don't just look really bad, they are really bad
I thought so too at the time regarding the goal but iirc there was a replay angle that seemed to show the GK managed to put his leg in front of the ball and it wasn’t Miculescu (our player) that touched it, in the post game interview he said he did. If he did that was a fair goal, if he didn’t that s a foul. Either way there should have been VAR. And you are confusing the starting lineup with the one against Midtjylland (even then Sut is a lot more of a defensive player, BWM maybe?), against Rangers we played a 4231 with Baba Alhassan (Anchor Man? Regular DM? Half Back? Idk, not much of a tactics guy) and Edjouma (Segundo Volante? Idk, he was terrible regardless and a large reason for the loss even though others are obviously to blame as well) as DMs and 3 wingers (or whatever Miculescu is, then again he just had a massively rare amazing game so I can’t say that at this point). There was also some voluntary rotation (CB Mihai Popescu for LB Radunovic, Pantea for Cretu) as we aren’t doing that well in the league (6th before this matchday but in a tight table, with a match in hand and we always start slowly in the league and pick up pace later) and we had a derby against Rapid upcoming that we never win lately. Predictably, we drew anyway
Can we all just stop and admire the hand drawn Zealand logo in the background?
Midtjylland wanted to copy Brentford kick off tactics and failed horribly
AIN NO WAY YOU DID A VIDEO ON THIS GOAL, all the love by brother!!
I was waiting for him to, he didn’t even mention the rest of the results or even Tanase s free kick goal lol
Attended the game. Had no idea what was going on, many werent even back to their seats yet. Glorious. FCSB este Steaua! ❤💙
Amazing. Stretching a 15sec vid into 9+minutes.
Analytical analysis 😅😁
It's crazy because Midtjylland was at the forefront of set piece design a few years ago, they are a club we've heard of because of their set piece success
I'VE SEEN THIS KICK-OFF TACTIC BEFORE.
Like, years ago a German amateur team in either the third division or one of the Regionalligas actually played this and scored directly. Imma try to find out where and when this was exactly. Hold on.
Still holding
Uefa are doing FCSB dirty as the only mention on their website about them was when they lost against Rangers . They haven't said a peep when FCSB was dominating in the early stages and being at the top. Thanks for covering them and this goal. The best part of the goal was that he kissed the ball before chesting it in.
The "Zealand has a soft spot for Spurs" theory grows stronger every day. Just come out at this point mate!
I think he loves ange, which is also the reason i also now have a soft spot for spurs.
Any top-level club smart enough to give a chance to one of the, very obviously and consistently, most talented managers of the past decade deserves some love.
@@jord.an6123 Spurs 1-2 Ipswich
Just a note for those unaware, FCSB are the privately owned FC Steaua Bucharest, who split off from the nationally owned CSA Steaua Bucharest sports club in 1998 or so while the rest of the sports teams remained public.
It's all very complicated but they've been in conflict with the original one since around 2011 and were forced to rename themselves FCSB in 2017 because the CSA reinstated the football team.
UEFA attributes all previous titles, including the European Cup win in 1986, to FCSB as well.
It's all very complicated.
The real Steaua is in the second division
@pavlikmorozovgaming468 I'm not really knowledgeable enough to judge whether they're the 'real' one or not, but yes the Steaua that was reinstated in 2017 is in the second division which is pretty good, considering they started from the bottom division.
@@pavlikmorozovgaming468 both teams are and arent steaua, its complicated, most of the people accepted fcsb as steaua anyway
Some fans didn't even come back from the toilet/food shops to see this goal 😂
Romania back with the Gigabrain plays, what a nation
we have the Gigibrain plays
There we see a difference between adult/pro football and playground football as kids. There's an actual rule against scoring goals like that on the playground. It's called the "I'm taking my ball and going home you meanie!" rule...
The y in Midtjylland is closer to the ou sound in you. Not exactly but closer. And the d is silent.
you'd be rage quitting football manager if that happened
Also FCSB are actually a phoenix club for Steauea Bucuresti (nailed that spelling I’m sure), the only Romanian team to win the Champions League. That’s a crazy story in and of itself. It was in the ‘80s and their goalkeeper made something like four saves in the penalty shootout to help them beat Barcelona. He even got to lift the trophy for the team in honor of his heroics.
Not really a phoenix club as that implies we went bankrupt which we didn’t (unlike loads of other Romanian clubs), we were forced to be privatised by a 1998 law that barred state owned clubs from being in the first tier but then the army (OG Steaua Bucuresti owner. Close spelling lol, you just added an extra “e” at the end. Technically it s Steaua București but even us natives don’t really use the diacritics when writing online) got angry and claimed they never sold the Steaua brand so they sued us and we lost the rights to all history before 2003 so far (1998-2003 we were a nonprofit organisation rather than a share based company so that got wiped too). However, UEFA still considers FCSB to be the 1986 winners as for a long time they hadn’t even been notified of all the ongoing trials in Romania (because they weren’t fully settled and they still aren’t to this day). The army has rebuilt a new club in the 4th tier in 2017 which has the rights to the old logo and name of the team, it is called CSA (“Clubul Sportiv al Armatei”, Army Sports Club) Steaua Bucuresti. It now plays in the second tier from which it can’t promote due to the same law that started the privatisation in the first place. Similar split identity situations in Romanian football include the two Universitatea Craiovas (CSU vs FCU, in that case the argument is indeed over who is the rightful successor of the OG Craiova that went bankrupt in 2013) as well as the 3 Dinamos (one, first tier FC Dinamo 1948 has the sporting continuity just like FCSB and also the rights to the name and badge leased, the second is the third tier CS Dinamo owned by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (original Dinamo owner), the third is the third tier ACS FC Dinamo, a team created by one of Dinamo s former private investors that somehow got the rights to the name and badge for himself (yes, he is the one that s leasing it to the first tier Dinamo)). At least the 3 Dinamos are relatively civil with one another, the state owned club having hinted at a future reunification multiple times unlike CSA Steaua vs FCSB which is way more virulent and bigger as obviously there is a CL title in the argument along with the size of the fanbase (that s massive for Dinamo too, Steaua and Dinamo ARE the two biggest clubs in the country) and the personal rivalries involved.
@@edi0157 I throught the CS and FC U Craiova is about the OG one from 1948 until 1991 or 1990.
@@Storecton You re right, I thought CSU Craiova won the rights to 1991-2011 (first exclusion)/2014 (definitive bankruptcy) too but it turns out that s not the case, the argument is over the moment the club got privatised in just like with Steaua even if Mititelu s privatised club later did go bankrupt. Why do we have all of these fights damn it?
@@edi0157 I also think is one but it finished some years ago, it was for the Politehnica Timisoara. Now I'm not sure for another one because either it was a clone or the two clubs indeed made a trade for their stuffs, and I'm talking about the CSM Resita with Catalin Rufa's team
@@Storecton Yea, Politehnica Timisoara was a whole thing too. The OG team went bankrupt and the town hall decided to move ACS Recas from a different town into Timisoara and call it ACS Politehnica Timisoara American franchise-style (the name is leased from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara, not to be confused with the one in Bucharest of the same name), they went back up to the first tier (from 2nd), then they should have been relegated but because Rapid went bankrupt themselves they weren’t, then they got into debt so hard that they got a 14 points penalty, STILL survived relegation and then finally got relegated on H2H. Where they met….ASU (later SSU) Politehnica Timisoara, a phoenix club set up by the fans that started in the 5th tier. Then got relegated again, twice in a row and eventually went bankrupt in 2021, leaving SSU as the only club representing the old Poli so they got an agreement with the university to use the brand from then on. They are now in the 3rd tier and have former GK Costel Pantilimon as director.
As for Resita, I didn’t even know this one lol. It seems that the OG CSM Resita somehow managed to go bankrupt twice in 4 years between 2004-2008 (holy hell lads), got refounded, meanwhile Rufa, the owner of CSM Ramnicu Valcea (which is two counties away from Resita, 334 km according to Google though it is a bit of roundabout road path) exchanged his club for a newly (2007, this took place in 2013) founded Damila Maciuca so became the owner of that club and instantly moved it to Resita, renaming it CS Metalul Resita. At this point, FCM Resita also existed as a phoenix club but it lost town hall funding in favour of Metalul. That only lasted for two years though as relations cooled between Metalul and the town hall so they moved AGAIN, to Snagov. Where is Snagov? On the infamous for its interminable traffic every weekend DN1 road between Ploiesti and Bucharest (Bucharest dwellers spending their weekend at the mountains have to go through this road leading to huge traffic), a mere 572 km by road from Resita. Oh, and for a little while the current Rapid owner Victor Angelescu also invested there apparently. They actually lasted until 2019 when Rufa gave up the club but then went bankrupt half a season later. As for FCM, it got back its funding, renamed to CSM Scolar Resita and later CSM Resita and exists to this day, they are now 3rd in Liga 2 but idk if they actually have the promotion right due to that privatisation law. Wild story ngl, think this one takes the cake
Ahahaha, as a FCSB fan I was waiting for you to do a video on this lol, you didn’t even speak about the rest of the match nevermind the other results. I will now add some further points you might be interested in as there is more too!
1. “Why have I never heard of FCSB before?”-Well, this was an expertly avoided subject by Zealand lol but you should have if you followed European competitions for the past few years as we have been competing under this name for a while. It s all very complicated but basically we are the former Steaua that got privatised away from the army due to a 1998 law barring state-owned teams from competing in the first tier and then years later the army claimed they never sold the Steaua brand, it all went to court and the trials are still ongoing but we have lost the rights to the name and badge as well as any titles earned before 2003 (from 1998-2003 we were a non profit association rather than a share based company so 1 title, 1 cup and 1 supercup belong to the former association which no longer exists so literally no one). The army has created a new club in the 4th tier that quickly made it to the second one but is now stuck there due to the same law that forced the initial privatisation in the first place. UEFA still considers us the successor to the historical team. Yep, it s a mess and not even the only case of split identity in Romania (see the two Universitatea Craiovas, the 3 Dinamos…).
2. There s a video of Romanian FIFA youtuber Theo going to this match and my man was still talking about the halftime subs when he suddenly realised a ball was heading towards the net for the 2-0 lmao, it was glorious.
3. For the past two matches and a half we have been without our captain Olaru (CM) which is the main force of the team as he got a stupid red vs PAOK (first one was for a foul and/or complaining to the ref afterwards, the second one was for GRABBING THE BALL IN ORDER TO GAIN A FOUL. Not even the first stupid red he got this season, he also raised his leg wayyy too far and put his leg through the back of someone in order to “play for the ball” in a league game (he had no chance). Idk what is up with him this season, maybe thought he was about to leave or something but no one will buy him when he does stuff like this) and got injured after that.
4. In fact, we keep getting injuries which understandably lead the opposition coach to think we were timewasting. We played a midfield 3 with a single defensive player (Sut), a CAM (Tanase) and a winger (Baluta), the last two with barely any physical presence. We HAD more defensive options that would later come on but one of them was terrible vs Rangers (Edjouma) so they weren’t picked. Tanase pulled up with a muscle injury in the 7th minute. He still scored A FREE KICK GOAL (deflected by the wall, but still) before getting subbed off in the 30th minute. His replacement in the match (Baba Alhassan), turns out, is also injured and will be out for 5 weeks. Injuries and some stupid rotation ahead of a league derby against Rapid (we never win those anyway, might as well have rotated then. We drew 1-1) is also why we got spanked vs Rangers. Well, that, a controversial 2nd minute goal chalked off that wasn’t checked by VAR due to the ref blowing too early and Edjouma dropping a proper 1/10 performance.
5. Thanks Hoffenheim for not giving up after going down in 90+3 to Lyon and getting a 90+7 draw so we can keep being in the top 8 lol.
6. The pressing routine was planned, our guys said in the post match interview they studied Midtjylland s kick offs as they have tried this in their league as well. Also, the goalscorer Birligea especially has that in him ever since he arrived two months ago. As for the other dude (Miculescu), well, I am amazed he finally had a great game and we paid 1.7 million euros for him lol. He was dribbling around destroying his opponents this match though tbf to him, fair play!
Anyway, yeah, we have done amazingly so far even if we were definitely lucky in some regards. I thought we were going to get the 9-10 points that seem to be necessary for top 24 and even that some people thought was a bit optimistic. Well, we already have 9. That the objective done, if we can push further that s great but I won’t be mad if we can’t. Our next games are Olympiakos (H, 50-50 tie imo), Hoffenheim (A, will be difficult even if they are struggling domestically), Qarabag (A, technically we should be the favourites but they have had some very impressive results lately) and United at home (why did you have to sack Ten Hag lads, I am actually scared now). By the time United comes we will have probably gotten top 24 mathematically which would be massive, can’t wait for that game especially but also the rest of them, let Olympiakos come if they dare!
it literally looks like an NFL kickoff gone wrong, hysterical
I don't have the footage but I assume FCSB learned from the kickoff after the 1-0? I mean you have to be prepared to start sprinting like that.
They were prepared pre match too according to the coach and the goalscorer after the game as Midtjylland does this type of kickoffs in their league as well
That's like a punt block/return touchdown
That was my first reaction. The way they sprinted after the goalkeeper is like an unblocked gunner going after the punter
imagine zealandism running like the fcsb player
they could just put one defender close to the goalie so he has an option to pass it away if he sees that he can't make the long ball. You can still put 9 players in the other half.
died when he pronounced mitjyland
FCSB is my Romanian team. Hadn’t seen the highlights until now. What. The fuck.
Bro let me wake up
Bro didn't let you sleep or wake up 😭
Shane Long. Fastest Premier League goal ever. 6.8 seconds when I’m not mistaken
They need the 2 centrebacks going wide to give a short passing option if there's a lot of pressure.
I wonder if they tried it again for the kick off after that goal
lol I was watching this game and laughed so hard
4:10 what you came here for, you're welcome
Nevermind he paused for another 2 minutes...
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SUPER SLIME SOCCER
I was sure you were gonna talk about this 😂
as a Midtjylland fan, I've been waiting for the moment you would make a video on us, but not like this man... you cant do this to me, Z :(
Just call them FC Midgetland, that's what we all do here in denmark 🙂
We all have no clue what a chipping wedge is
It's a type of golf club
As an FC Copenhagen fan, I probably shouldn't laugh at that, but I am
what's about the really big door?
What's the deal with FCSB? It both kinda is and definitely is not Steaua Bucharest?
Qué lindo es fútbol!
rocket league kickoff goal
Did we just watch a QB get blitzed????? What in the American Football???
This is like a punt block return touchdown when you get too cute with a punt play. 😂
i’m so early ik vini scored a hattrick
Wow i cant belive u lied in the title zealand i am utterly shocked and i dont think i can trust u
europa league and conference league analysis video please Z ! ! ! !
Teams are trying to turn the game into other sports.
Why can’t you just show the clip in full and then analyse?
Vasco na NFL
Who said fifa isn't realistic
Zealand casually promoting his new merch in the background
You're really telegraphing this play to the opponent if the entire squad is on the halfcourt line at kickoff. Also The goalkeeper is standing way too high up the field for this play to work. If you have to stand halfway up your own half to be able to hit off a long range kick, then this play is probably not meant for you.
I pray that one day Danish clubs will live up to their potential in Europe but yet again another season of poor performances.
Thank you for making a video about my favorite team...they also don t name now anymore Steaua Bucharest...ist only just FCSB because they went to justice and lose in front of the army who has now a football team with the name of Steaua stuck in 2nd league for the last 3 years because they don t have the right to go up...you can make a video about it...its a joke what is going on
Didn't count on the gunner eh?
It's an American football term for those unfamiliar. If that guy keeps that up, the NFL might want to talk to him about that speed.
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Arousingly early
It is a bad executed play
can you leave the video playing once
you cant play videos correctly, wtf
at least link the original vid so I can watch it for myself
Many times he does that because he s scared of copyright claims, he s said that before
@edi0157 yea he can play it once he talks about it after its transformative either way he should link the vid or play it once because this is so annoying
@@hmp01 I know that technically he is allowed to comment on it but this is an automated system handling reviews don’t forget and 3 strikes leads to the whole channel being terminated so I get why he is cautious. I followed it fine (then again I watched the match live on TV as I support FCSB) but yeah, he could at least leave a link to the play in the comments