Saturday, 18 October 2008, 00:00 Clearer than the score is showing: CFR 1907 Cluj

Clearer than the score is showing: CFR 1907 Cluj "“ Dinamo Bucharest 1-0 (1-0)

Even since the first minutes of the match, CFR 1907 Cluj was looking like a champion, with a matching attitude, skipping the first dead moments and remembering that offence is the best defence. The battle cry belonged to Yssouf Kone, who stretched Lobonţ, in the 2nd minute, but the national team goalkeeper managed to deflect for a corner kick. The same players met in the 6th minute as well, but the Dinamo keeper saved again. The visitors awakened in the 10th minute, but Bratu failed to lift the ball past Stăncioiu. CFR 1907 continued their onslaught and Galiassi, in the 17th minute, was close to scoring but Cristea saved from the goal line and Dubarbier, a minute later, just missed the target. The inevitable came in the 41st minute, when Y. Kone deflected Pereira’s shot into the net and CFR 1907 Cluj finished the first half ahead: 1-0

Right after the break , in the 53rd minute, Dubarbier forced Lobonţ with a shot from outside the box and, later, in the 61st minute, sent the ball under the bar, but the Dinamo goalkeeper saved again. The railroaders played without constraints and closed into their opponents’ box with ease, missing chance after chance. In the 65th minute, Culio missed the goal by a few inches, after a shot from 22 meters. From the same position, Dubarbier tried his luck, in the 83rd minute, but the ball just missed its target. The match ending caught the Cluj players still on the offence, but the scoreboard remained unchanged until the final whistle. 1-0 and CFR 1907 Cluj defeated Dinamo, in a much clearer manner than the score was showing.

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