Şelimbăr and Buzău Share Points in Late Drama
Viitorul Şelimbăr and Metalul Buzău played out a 1:1 draw in the sixth match of Lliga II's Regular Season on Saturday evening. V. Robu opened the scoring just before the break with a forty-third-minute strike, and the hosts looked set to take all three points. And here's the thing — A. Serban's eighty-fourth-minute goal turned the game on its head, and what followed was a frantic end to the contest.
The visitors controlled the tempo for long stretches, holding fifty-six per cent of possession and launching one hundred and forty-five attacks compared to the hosts' one hundred and twenty-seven. To be fair, Şelimbăr made their chances count, converting two shots on target into a goal, while Buzău were more clinical with four on target but only found the net once. The statistics tell a story of away dominance without the reward.
What the match really remembered was the final ten minutes. Three yellow cards for Şelimbăr in stoppage time alone — D. Iancu at eighty-ninth, C. Cocos at ninety-one, T. Lantos at ninety-three — plus G. Cretu's earlier caution at seventy-nine. The game opened up, nerves showed, and both sides gave the ref a busy afternoon. By then it was clear neither team wanted to lose.
Şelimbăr sit sixteenth with six points from six games, one win and three draws. Buzău are twelfth, eight points from the same number of matches. The hosts had won their previous outing against Dinamo Bucureşti but have not kept a clean sheet in three league games, while the visitors lost at home to Chindia before finding form away from the stadium.
Neither side will feel cheated. Six points separate them in the table, and both have shown they can take points from tough fixtures. And here's the thing about this division — results often come down to moments, not minutes of possession. The late cards suggest a match that stayed within bounds but barely.