Cupa României update
By: sasha | April 17th, 2009Cupa României moves the semi-finals Dinamo Bucureşti, Timişoara, CFR Cluj and Vaslui and advancing.
Dinamo BucureÅŸti defeated Rapid BucureÅŸti 4-2 in an exciting match. Costin Lazăr gave Rapid the one goal lead ten minutes into the match however an own-goal by DănuÈ› Perjă leveled it eight minutes later. Gabriel BoÅŸtină gave Dinamo the lead eight minutes before the half volleying in a loose ball from the top of the box following a corner. Six minutes past the hour Marius Niculae doubled Dinamo’s lead as he headed Adrian Scarlatache’s cross in. With ten minutes left the Romanian international Niculae added his second of the night as he stylishly chipped the ball over the ‘keeper before heading it in. João Paulo Andrade added a consolation goal for Rapid in the second minute of added time but the match as decided with Dinamo winning 4-2.
TimiÅŸoara defeated Gloria BistriÅ£a 2-0 with both goals coming in the last minutes of the match. Just as regulation time ended striker Lukáš Magera raced into the box to fire a shot through goalkeeper Călin AlbuÅ£’s net and into the net. Two minutes into added time Alex Curtean drove the insurance goal in.
Defending champions CFR Cluj edged Pandurii Târgu Jiu 1-0. In a highly controversial decision Alexandru Piţurcă was adjudged a penalty off a corner, resulting in the matches lone goal as Sixto Peralta converted from the spot with two minutes left in the half.
The big upset of quarter-finals was Vaslui’s 2-0 defeat Unirea Urziceni. Wesley gave the Vaslui the lead thirty two minutes into the match as he volleyed in Nemanja Milisavljević’s cross from eleven metres. Bulgarian Stanislav Genchev doubled the margin with eleven minutes remaining as he drove the ball in from thirty-five metres.
The semi-finals will now pair CFR Cluj versus Vaslui and Dinamo BucureÅŸti versus TimiÅŸoara
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