Romania make it
Romania beat Spain 48-3 in Bucharest on Saturday, thus ensuring that they will end in third place on the European Nations Cup and so qualify for répechage and so keep their hopes alive of attending the 2011 World Cup.
They needed to win against Spain to leapfrog Portugal and they did it convincingly.
At half-time the Oaks led 24-3 after scoring three tries in the half before 3 500 spectators at Stadionul Arcul de Triumf.
Scorers:
For Romania:
Tries: Ciuntu, Dimofte, Lucaci, Dumitras, Fercu
Cons: Vlaicu 4, Dumbrava
Pen: Vlaicu
For Spain:
Pen: Mazo
Teams:
Rumania: 15 Florin Vlaicu, 14 Catalin Fercu, 13 Ionut Dimofte, 12 Robert Dascalu, 11 Stefan Ciuntu, 10 Iulian Dumitras, 9 Lucian Sarbu, 8 Daniel Carpo, 7 Mihai Macovei, 6 Viorel Lucaci, 5 Cristian Petre, 4 Sorin Socol (captain), 3 Dragos Dima, 2 Bogdan Zebega, 1 Cezar Popescu
Replacements: 16 Andrei Radoi, 17 Mihaita Lazar, 18 Valentin Ursache, 19 Cosmin Ratiu, 20 Valentin Ivan, 21 Danut Dumbrava, 22 Csaba Gal
Spain: 15 Pedro Martin, 14 Benjamín Pardo,13 Juan Cano, 12 Javier Canosa, 11 Ignacio Martín, 10 Manuel Mazo 9 Hernán Quirelli, 8 Matthew Cook, 7 Federico Negrillo, 6 Rafael Camacho, 5 Jesús Recuerda, 4 Leandro Fernández-Aramburu (captain), 3 Jesús Moreno,2 José Maria Bohorquez, 1 Anthony Pradalie
Replacements: 16 Marco Pinto, 17 David Gurgenadze, 18 César Bernasconi,19 Carlos Souto, 20 Sale Ibarra,21 Iván Criado,,22 Matías Tudela
Referee: John Lacey (Ireland)
Assistant referees: Alan Rogan (Ireland), Darragh McCormack (Ireland)