{"id":12205,"date":"2026-09-29T06:02:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12205"},"modified":"2026-09-29T06:02:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:02:53","slug":"nations-league-romania-lose-4-2-to-bosnia-and-herzegovina-coach-gheorghe-hagi-takes-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12205","title":{"rendered":"Nations League: Romania lose 4-2 to Bosnia and Herzegovina, coach Gheorghe Hagi takes blame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romania <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frf.ro\/nationale\/masculin\/echipa-nationala\/liga-natiunilor-romania-bosnia-hertegovina-2145-antena-1\/\">lost<\/a> 4-2 to Bosnia and Herzegovina at Bucharest\u2019s National Arena on Monday evening, September 28, in their second match of the new UEFA Nations League campaign. Head coach Gheorghe Hagi accepted responsibility for the defeat, saying that he and his players had \u201cfailed the test.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bosnia and Herzegovina led 3-1 at half-time following goals from Armin Gigovi\u0107 in the 12th minute, Tarik Muharemovi\u0107 in the 19th, and Haris Tabakovi\u0107 in the 40th. Daniel B\u00eerligea scored for Romania in the 28th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Ermin Mahmi\u0107 added Bosnia\u2019s fourth goal in the 55th minute, before Alexandru Cic\u00e2ld\u0103u reduced the deficit for Romania seven minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>The match was played without spectators. It was Hagi\u2019s first official home match since beginning his new spell as Romania\u2019s head coach. He left several prominent players out of the squad, including Radu Dr\u0103gu\u0219in, Denis Man, Ianis Hagi, and R\u0103zvan Marin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was confident that we would play well, but unfortunately Bosnia taught us a lesson tonight,\u201d Hagi said after the match, as quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/agerpres.ro\/sport\/2026\/09\/29\/fotbal-gheorghe-hagi---eu-si-echipa-nu-am-trecut-examenul-sunt-principalul-vinovat--1597803\">Agerpres<\/a>. \u201cThe team looked like one that has played at the World Cup, with courage and great confidence in its game. We, myself and the team, did not pass the test.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged that his decision to use two different line-ups in Romania\u2019s first two Nations League matches had not worked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted two different teams that could cope with European football. It seems I was wrong, and I take responsibility,\u201d he stated. \u201cI planned everything and thought this was the right approach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The coach further said Romania needed to change direction and work extensively following the performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must build a strong team. We can no longer talk about what happened in the past,\u201d Gheorghe Hagi said. \u201cWe have to build a team that makes Romania happy. The only way to calm the supporters is through results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Romania began its Nations League campaign with a 2-1 defeat to Sweden last Friday. The team will next face Poland in Warsaw on October 2 before hosting Sweden at the National Arena on October 5.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania lost 4-2 to Bosnia and Herzegovina at Bucharest\u2019s National Arena on Monday evening, September 28, in their second match of the new UEFA Nations League campaign. Head coach Gheorghe Hagi accepted responsibility for the defeat, saying that he and his players had \u201cfailed the test.\u201d Bosnia and Herzegovina led 3-1 at half-time following goals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}