The owls lost to Romania in the away game with a 0-1 result. Finland was destined to fail in good finish areas.
Riku Porvari,
Riku Salminen
11.6. 23:50 • Updated June 12 00:22
The owls bowed to Romania as a guest in Bucharest with goals 0-1. The loss to the Finnish men’s national football team was the first in the League of Nations.
Head coach Markku Kanervan According to Finland, Finland did not succeed in its finish line on Saturday night. In addition, Finland lost the ball a few times too easily, allowing Romania to counter-attack, Kanerva said.
– We knew they were a strong counterattack team. They were still dangerous today. It was also unfortunate when Nikolai Alho slipped in it (in the situation leading to the goal), Kanerva assessed after the match.
Robin Lodin according to Romania did not get many goals in the match, while Finland even had a chance to win the match.
– Romania scored the leading goal and then started to retreat, which gave us goals. It is a pity that there were no goals today when there were good places for it.
Finland held the ball and scored the goal – Romania scored
Finland started the game strongly, but after five minutes the match was determined by Romania.
The home keeper was awarded a penalty in the 16th minute Jesse Joronen Fortunately, Finland rejected. A moment later, the game was suspended for a few minutes as frustrated Romanian supporters threw flares at the field.
After about half an hour, however, the home fans got to celebrate when Romania scored a counterattack. George Puscas got to focus and Nicusor Bancu pushed the ball freely into the goal. We took a break in a 1-0 situation.
You can see Romania’s winning goal in the video at the beginning of the story.
Sports Expert Pekka Lagerblomin According to the report, Romania took advantage of the facilities left by Finland’s midfield.
– From there, the defenders got to focus on the penalty area for dangerous main players. These situations came too often and too much, they caused chaos and, for example, that penalty kick, Lagerblom said during the break.
Finland returned from the break, intrigued. Right at the beginning of the second half Joel Pohjanpalo already tried once.
With 53 minutes played, Pohjanpalo had a fantastic opportunity to reply but his shot flew harmlessly into the side-netting of the goal. Florin Nițan. After that, they went without a good finish for a long time, even though Joronen had to do some fighting work.
With ten minutes left in the match, Finland started to score. First Glen Chamber bait for Robin Lodille but Lod shoots wide
Two minutes before the actual playing time, Lod fed the top spot to Pohjanpalos, who hit the ball past the goal. After overtime, the Owners were disappointed when Romania grabbed its first victory in the League of Nations.
Watch Lodi and Pohjanpalo’s finish spots in the video below.
You can see the highlights of the Romania-Finland match below.
(match start times during Finnish time)