With the same coach,Steaua needs the same fabulous path from the spring of the year 2008 in order to hope to take the title, but now the quality and the players’ labour conscription from the last two weeks predict a somber return
"The friendly matches are not relevant" is one of the stereotypes from this break. Because in Romania, there are 3 months between the turn and return, the friendly matches are very often. Steaua finished the training camp from Antalya and, 11 days before the official match with FC Vaslui, draws up the conclusions.
Steaua 2009 must take the example from Steaua 2008
They know what they need. Even Lăcătuş affirms this. "If we don’t have al least 14 victories in the 17 laps, we won’t take the title". What do they have to do in order to reach this performance? They shall look in the last return where they had a similar result and they will find the last year return. In the spring of the year 2008, Lăcătuş won with Steaua 12 matches from 15. The second part of the championship was exceptional, they missed the title, but they recovered amazingly the difference towards CFR and they demonstrated that it is possible.
You can see here what Lăcătuş declared after the defeat suffered in the friendly match with the Danish from Aalborg
Having the model from last year, Gazeta went on the story line and analyzed what happened in the two training camps considered vital for Lăcătuş in preparing the great offensive from the championship: Larnaca (Cipru), in the period January-February 2008, and Antalya (Turcia), in the period January-February 2009. What happened last year and what happens now? Does Steaua have a better period now than 12 months ago? Is it possible to repeat the TGV run from last year? The answers are in the following lines:
DEFENCE
The same players, but much more disordered!
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