Pantelimon 1 - 0 Rapid (365237040)

Clouds darkened the skies at 7 Mai 1986 as 60000 spectators turned up for the match. Vasily Fatkin was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Abel van Asselt and Lucien Laubscher. Pantelimon started off with a 4-5-1 lineup. The following players took the field: Onofrei - Ştefan, Mogoş, Fernandes, Geoană - Novaković, Muşuroi, Petraru, Anca, Cosbuc - Theodorescu.

Rapid tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players had been chosen: Ilie - Sánchez, Botoş, Mihalache - Quadrio Aristarchi, Conde, Morega, Dumitrescu, Rinaldo - Dollmantis, Chalmers.

Pantelimon made a bid to take the lead as a ball coming in on the right hand side left O. Ştefan completely alone with keeper I. Ilie, who made a spectacular block. Rapid's S. Conde had to watch the rest of the game from the sidelines, after twisting his ankle with 23 minutes having been played. C. Cannavaro was the replacement. The referee showed Rapid's I. Chalmers the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. 40 minutes into the game, I. Fernandes had to leave the pitch due to a knee injury. In came F. Leoveanu. 0 - 0 was the halftime score. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Pantelimon, with 51 percent of the ball.

Rapid had several good opportunities to take the lead, especially 60 minutes in when R. Dollmantis came up alone against V. Onofrei who managed a block. 81 minutes into the match, Rapid nearly took the lead, as F. Botoş broke through on the right. V. Onofrei made the save, however. I. Petraru caused the crowd to go mental with his goal up the middle after 89 minutes. This gave Pantelimon the 1 - 0 lead. Rapid's B. Dumitrescu was shown a yellow card after 89 minutes for slicing down an opponent. Due to a severely mistimed tackle, M. Anca of Pantelimon spent some time on the grass writhing in agony before he could get up and continue the game. Pantelimon claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 52 percent.

Pantelimon's best player was T. Muşuroi. F. Leoveanu on the other hand, had a terrible day. Most important Rapid player was B. Dumitrescu. M. Quadrio Aristarchi turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 1 - 0.