Oțelul and Corvinul Hunedoara met in the tenth round of the Ligi I, and the visitors came away with a 2-3 win at home. The match opened with Oțelul taking the lead through Daniel Pirvulescu in the twentieth minute, but Corvinul turned things around after the break. By then the hosts had settled into their rhythm, but the visitors sensed blood when Miguel Silva equalised on the hour mark.
Pirvulescu's early strike gave Oțelul something to build on, though the momentum shifted quickly after half-time. Corvinul's Miguel Silva found the net in the fifty-first minute, and that goal seemed to switch off the hosts at the back. Gideon Uche Goodlad put the visitors ahead in the sixty-second minute before Denis Bordun added a second in the sixty-fourth. And here's the thing — Oțelul had dominated possession but were chasing the game.
The hosts refused to lie down, and Ángel Nahuel Gillard pulled one back in the seventy-third minute after VAR confirmation. It was a late lifeline, but Corvinul had the deeper squad and managed to see out the remaining minutes. Several substitutions came in quick succession as both sides tried to find a winner, with Daniel Pirvulescu, Sérgio Ribeiro and Teodor Lungu all being replaced for Oțelul in the seventieth minute.
The statistics tell a story of frustration for the home side. Oțelul held 60 per cent possession and took eighteen shots, six of which were on target, yet they could only salvage a single goal from those efforts. Corvinul were more clinical with seven shots on target yielding three goals, and their 39 per cent shooting accuracy speaks for itself. The hosts created three big chances while the visitors matched that number, but the difference was in the conversion.
To be fair, this result shifts the table picture slightly. Corvinul move up to seventh place on thirteen points from ten games, while Oțelul remain fourteenth with just ten points. The visitors have now gone unbeaten in two league outings, having lost to Universitatea Craiova and Petrolul Ploiești earlier in September. Oțelul's recent run has been tougher, with defeats to Universitatea Cluj and Rapid Bucharest compounding their struggles.
We had backed the hosts to win with seventy-eight per cent confidence, but the match went the other way. Corvinul's away record is not something to dismiss lightly, and they showed the composure to take their chances when it mattered. The old head settled them down after the early scare, and by the end they had rescued all three points on the road.
