With a three-goal home victory, our U18 team moved to within a single point of leaders Rapid in the Youth League play-offs. Our U17s drew, while the U15s and U16s suffered narrow defeats away to FCSB.
We were unable to recover from the setback of our home defeat to Rapid in the previous round, as Kollár Péter’s side came away from Timișoara without a point this time. Although our place in the championship play-offs is secure, we have dropped two places from the top of the table.
FC Bacău drew level after we had taken a two-goal lead, but Tajti Mátyás struck in stoppage time to secure a 3–2 win over the second-division side in Saturday’s friendly at the Municipal Stadium.
Romania’s youth national team is preparing for its first-ever appearance at the U17 World Cup, with two players developed at the Szeklerland Football Academy included in the squad.
We could not handle the pressure of being favourites: our Women’s Superliga team lost 3–1 to Rapid Bucharest at Burus Csaba Sportpark. After a goalless first half, the visitors scored three times, and Shala Jehona’s late goal proved to be no more than a consolation.
Our U18 and U17 teams both faced Farul Constanța in Ovidiu in the third round of the academy play-offs. The U15 and U16 home fixtures against Farul, also scheduled for this weekend, have provisionally been postponed to 12 December.