The Romanian national rugby team suffered a decisive defeat from the representative of Samoa with a score of 22-0. The last control match of “Duba” this autumn was held in Bucharest, on Saturday evening. at the Arc de Triomphe National Rugby Stadium.

In front of approximately 3,000 spectators, at the selection with no. 100 for Romania captain Mihai Macovey, the tricolors played the weakest match of the three that took place this month, clearly dominating in all sections and making many mistakes both in attack and defense, writes Agerpres.

After a few promising minutes for the Oaks early in the game, the visitors opened the scoring in the 6th minute through WJ Seuteny, who scored the first try of the match, converted by Danny Toala.

Just 6 minutes later, the same Toala scored a penalty, and three minutes later, against the background of inaccurate Romanian play, Taleni Seu scored the second try, also scored by Toala.

Thus, in just 15 minutes, the visitors took a 17-0 lead, and the first half was, with a few exceptions, in the account of the players from the Pacific Ocean, who in the 37th minute also scored a third try through Geoffrey Tumagu. Allen, not converted, half-time score 22-0 to the Samoans.

The second leg was somewhat atypical for a rugby match, with neither team able to get a single point on the scoreboard.

The guests took their foot off the accelerator, the confrontation took on the character of exhaustion, quite balanced, with phases of attack from one side, then from the other side, but still against the background of the dominance of the guests.

In fact, the Samoans managed to get the ball into our goal area three times, but none of the attempts were confirmed by the central referee, the Englishman Christoph Ridley, due to some violations of the game committed by them in the phases preceding the essay. .

The match finished 22-0 at half-time and Romania ended the autumn campaign with one win (30-23 against Chile) and two defeats (16-21 against Uruguay and 0-22 against Samoa).

Both Romania (20th place in the international ranking) and Samoa (12th place) have qualified for the 2023 World Cup in France.

Before the Romania-Samoa match at the Arc de Triomphe stadium, another control match was held – Tonga-Uruguay, in which the team of the Pacific region won with a score of 43-19.

Rugby World Cup 2023 – Group composition

Group A: New Zealand, France, Italy, Uruguay, Namibia

Group B: South Africa, Ireland, Scotland, Tonga, Romania

Group C: Wales, Australia, Fiji, Georgia, Portugal

Group D: England, Japan, Argentina, Samoa, Chile.