Dinamo București beat Farul 4-0 in the Liga I regular season on Sunday evening at the Dinamo Stadium. The hosts dominated from the first whistle and never looked like losing, with goals from Martin Pascual, Andrei Marginean, Catalin Cirjan and Diogo Pinto securing all three points. The result moved Dinamo further clear in third place while leaving Farul in fifth.
And here's the thing about the opening goal: Pascual struck in the twelfth minute, a quick burst that caught Farul napping. The visitors did not respond, and Marginean doubled the advantage just before the break in the forty-third minute. Then came the turning point at the half-hour mark — Daniel Armstrong picked up a booking in the forty-fifth minute, and Denis Alibec was sent off moments later. By then the match was effectively over.
Cirjan added a third early in the second half, the fifty-fourth minute, and the visitors had already switched to a back three without success. Farul tried to create something but their key passes were half the home side's tally. Pinto rounded off the scoring in the eighty-fifth minute, and the stadium fell silent as substitutions followed one another without urgency from either dressing room.
The statistics tell the story without embellishment. Dinamo had 45 per cent possession but created six big chances to Farul's three. The visitors enjoyed the ball more, with 55 per cent, but their shots accuracy of 60 per cent meant nothing when they could not convert. Dinamo's seven shots on target produced four goals; Farul's six on target yielded none. It was a case of the wheels coming off for the away side the moment Alibec saw red.
Dinamo now sit on twenty points from nine games, two ahead of fourth place with a game in hand. Farul remain on fourteen points, and the gap between them and the European spots is widening. The hosts have won six of nine, while Farul have drawn half their matches — a pattern that suggests inconsistency rather than collapse. What happened on Sunday was not a surprise to anyone who watched them closely.
