Liga 1 week 17 summary

Dinamo Bucureşti maintained their top of the table form as they defeated a very tough Argeş Piteşti 2-0. The match was deadlocked until the Piteşti's Ilie Poenaru was red-carded ten minutes after the re-start. With the man advantage Mircea Rednic's Câinii Roşii got off the mark six minutes after the hour with Adrian Cristea's close-range strike through the fog.



Deep into added time former-Independiente man Osvaldo Miranda doubled the margin




Dorinel Munteanu's Steaua Bucureşti got by Unirea Voluntari Urziceni 1-0 on a last minute as ex-AEK Athens striker Pantelis Kapetanos scored as time ran out as his shot from outside the box took a huge deflection into the goal.



Rapid Bucureşti came from behind to defeat Politehnica Iaşi 2-1. Romulus Miclea gave
Iaşi the lead twelve minutes after the start after accepting a through-ball but with his strike taking a pronounced deflection over Vulturii Visinii 'keeper.



Juliano Spadacio leveled the match just past the half-hour mark as he jumped on a rebound off Ovidiu Herea's drive.



João Paulo scored the winning goal with twenty-six minutes remaining as Juliano Spadacio provided him a perfectly placed cross in close.



Timişoara continued to make their run up the table with a 4-0 destruction of Braşov. The match got off to a bad start for Braşov with a dreadful own goal by Cristian Oroş at the seventeenth minute.



Proud Armenian international Artavazd Karamyan brought the fans to their feet with a perfectly placed left footed shot to the opposite corner.



Lukáš Magera scored twice to round out the scoring, heading in Dorin Goga's cross at the sixty-third minute



and bringing the match to its 4-0 final with eight minutes remaining with a close-range volley.




Defending champion CFR Cluj snuck-by Gaz Metan Mediaş 2-1. Romanian capped Gabriel Mureşan struck just past the half hour mark as his free-kick snuck through the wall.



However Alexandru Curtean leveled match into added time with a perfect drive to the opposite corner.



However the Cluj found the winner three minutes into added time with Sebastián Dubarbier gathering a long ball off and driving the ball into the net.



FC Vaslui shocked Universitatea Craiova with a late goal to earn a 1-1 draw. Mihai Dina opened the scoring five minutes into the match



Mike Temwanjera equalized the match two minutes into added time.



Elsewhere Gloria Bistriţa defeated Gloria Buzău 2-0, with the Vampirii Albaştri' Cristian Coroian opening the scoring at the tenth minute



Cristian Silvăşan made it 2-0 six minutes before the break.



Farul Constanţa overcame CS Otopeni 1-0 with Dejan Rusmir goal two minutes past the half-hour mark.



Elsewhere Oţelul Galaţi and Pandurii Târgu Jiu played to a scoreless draw

Romania Liga 1 week 16	P	W	D	L	GS	GA	Pts
Dinamo Bucureşti	17	11	2	4	25	13	35
Unirea Voluntari Urziceni	17	11	1	5	28	14	34
Timişoara	17	10	5	2	32	20	29
CFR Cluj	17	8	5	4	24	13	29
Steaua Bucureşti	17	7	8	2	24	13	29
Universitatea Craiova	17	7	7	3	23	16	28
Rapid Bucureşti	17	8	4	5	22	17	28
Argeş Piteşti	17	8	3	6	24	21	27
Vaslui	17	7	4	6	19	16	25
Oţelul Galaţi	17	6	5	6	22	20	23
Braşov	17	5	8	4	14	13	23
Gloria 1922 Bistriţa	17	6	3	8	17	22	21
Pandurii Târgu Jiu	17	5	6	6	17	22	21
Farul Constanţa	17	5	4	8	14	24	19
Politehnica Iaşi	17	4	4	9	13	25	16
Gaz Metan Mediaş	17	4	3	10	18	31	15
CS Otopeni	17	2	3	12	14	31	9
Gloria Buzău	17	0	3	14	6	30	3