Liga 1 week 17 summary

By: sasha | December 2nd, 2008

Dinamo Bucureşti maintained their top of the table form as they defeated a very tough Argeş Piteşti 2-0. The match was deadlocked until the Piteşti’s Ilie Poenaru was red-carded ten minutes after the re-start. With the man advantage Mircea Rednic’s Câinii Roşii got off the mark six minutes after the hour with Adrian Cristea’s close-range strike through the fog. Deep into added time former-Independiente man Osvaldo Miranda doubled the margin

Dorinel Munteanu’s Steaua Bucureşti got by Unirea Voluntari Urziceni 1-0 on a last minute as ex-AEK Athens striker Pantelis Kapetanos scored as time ran out as his shot from outside the box took a huge deflection into the goal.

Rapid Bucureşti came from behind to defeat Politehnica Iaşi 2-1. Romulus Miclea gave Iaşi the lead twelve minutes after the start after accepting a through-ball but with his strike taking a pronounced deflection over Vulturii Visinii ‘keeper. Juliano Spadacio leveled the match just past the half-hour mark as he jumped on a rebound off Ovidiu Herea’s drive. João Paulo scored the winning goal with twenty-six minutes remaining as Juliano Spadacio provided him a perfectly placed cross in close.

Timişoara continued to make their run up the table with a 4-0 destruction of Braşov. The match got off to a bad start for Braşov with a dreadful own goal by Cristian Oroş at the seventeenth minute. Armenian international Artavazd Karamyan brought the fans to their feet with a perfectly placed left footed shot to the opposite corner of the highest quality. Lukáš Magera scored twice to round out the scoring, heading in Dorin Goga’s cross at the sixty-third minute and bringing the match to its 4-0 final with eight minutes remaining with a close-range volley.

Defending champion CFR Cluj snuck-by Gaz Metan Mediaş 2-1. Romanian capped Gabriel Mureşan struck just past the half hour mark as his free-kick snuck through the wall. However Alexandru Curtean leveled match into added time with a perfect drive to the opposite corner. Cluj found the winner three minutes into added time with Sebastián Dubarbier gathering a long ball off and driving the ball into the net.

FC Vaslui shocked Universitatea Craiova with a late goal to earn a 1-1 draw. Mihai Dina opened the scoring five minutes into the match with Mike Temwanjera equalizing the match two minutes into added time.

Elsewhere Gloria Bistriţa defeated Gloria Buzău 2-0, with the Vampirii Albaştri’ Cristian Coroian opening the scoring at the tenth minute with Cristian Silvăşan making it 2-0 six minutes before the break.

Farul Constanţa overcame CS Otopeni 1-0 with Dejan Rusmir goal two minutes past the half-hour mark.

Elsewhere Oţelul Galaţi and Pandurii Târgu Jiu played to a scoreless draw

With the end of week seventeen Liga 1 breaks for the long winter break.