Chivu defended their performance, despite the drop of two points.
He said: “We had a good intensity in the first half, but we made a bad last pass and were not very aggressive for the goal. However, the boys did what we asked of them and they did it with a certain intensity.
“Yes, in the second half our energy fell a bit, we were slow in our maneuvers, but it was not easy to attack such an organized low block.
“We had to move the ball a little faster, even if the field was slow. We will take the good things we did because I saw some very good.”
We are never ashamed
On the debut of Petar Sucic and Luis Henrique, Chivu also said: “It's not easy, they have had two training sessions, they are in a new reality and they have to adapt to our requests, but they tried to do their best.”
In the result, Chivu was on it: “We are never ashamed of what we do on the field, we respect our opponents. We have a strong team, but we know that you have to do something more in football than your opponent to win.
“We tried it today, we were proactive for most of the competition, sometimes even fluent and clear, but at the moment with the small energy we have, even if I am not looking for apologies, we struggled a bit from a physical point of view.
“But from the point of view of attitude and respect for the opponent, this never lacked.”