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Romanian League One’s final configuration for the
\nupcoming season has been decided on Thursday. In the promotion\/maintaining playoff
\ntie, FC Voluntari outclassed Dunarea Calarasi. We recall that in the second leg
\nof the tie FC Voluntari trounced Dunarea on home turf, 4-nil. Scoring for
\nVoluntari were the Czech Lukas Droppa, the Spaniard Jefte Betancor, Igor Arma\u015f and
\nCosmin Achim, who turned a penalty kick into a goal. In the first leg in
\nCalarasi, Voluntari also emerged as winners, 2-1. In the previous season,
\nDunarea came in 4th in according to the Second league’s Group1 rankings. FC
\nVoluntari came in 7th according to League One’s Group 2
\nclassification. On Wednesday and also in a League One playoff fixture, CS
\nMioveni secured an aggregate win against FC Hermanstadt, with a 2-1 away win in
\nMedias and a blank draw at home. In the previous season, CS Mioveni came in 3rd
\naccording to League Two’s Group1 rankings. Mioveni are the first second-tier
\nteam to have won a promotion\/maintaining playoff tie in League One. We recall
\nthat so far, only League One teams have had the upper hand in such confrontations. At the end of the season, FC
\nHermannstadt have been relegated to League Two. Politehnica Iasi and Astra
\nGiurgiu, two bottom-of-the table teams in League One, have also been relegated
\nto League Two. The Second League’s first two teams in descending order, FCU
\nCraiova and Rapid Bucharest, have been promoted to League One. <\/p>\n
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The headline-hitting event at the weekend is the
\nfriendly match pitting the national squad of Romania against England. The venue
\nof the game will be a stadium in Middlesbrough in England. The Brits are still
\npreparing for the European Football championship, which is drawing near. We
\nrecall that our national squad failed to qualify to the event. Ahead of the
\nfriendly against England, the Romanians are trailing a recent unnerving, 1-2
\ndefeat by Georgia behind them. Georgia is 91st-placed according to the world
\nrankings. Sports media at home has heavily criticized the national squad’s
\nbelow-par run in the match against Georgia. Head-coach Mirel Radoi also came under
\nfire for the faulty way in which he prepared the team and composed the starting
\nlineup. A satisfactory result in England could ease the tension that has occurred
\namong the team and among board members of the Romanian Football Federation, where
\npresident Razvan Burleanu as of late has been highly contested because of the
\nNational squad’s disappointing results in recent confrontations. <\/p>\n
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