Romania’s candidacy for the Rugby World Cup 2023 is still alive

After a comfortable 38-12 win over the Netherlands in Amsterdam on Saturday. Romania moved into the third position in the European Rugby World Cup 2023 qualifying table. Rugby Fans can buy France Rugby World Cup 2023 Tickets from our website.

Romania moved into the third position in the European Rugby World Cup 2023 qualifying table

The Oaks finished with 28 points across the two-year qualification cycle, from 2021 to 2022, 16 points behind champions Georgia and one point behind the region’s two automatic qualifiers, Spain.

Romania will now compete in the Last Qualification Tournament against three other teams for the 20th and final ticket to the Rugby World Cup 2023. The victor of the competition will be placed in Pool C alongside Wales, Australia, Fiji, and Europe 1 qualifier Georgia.

Romania entered the game against the Netherlands as a clear favorite, having won all eight previous meetings with the division’s worst team. Gabriel Rupanu, Ionut Dumitru, Hickley Vaovasa, and Ovidiu Cojocaru all scored tries for Romania immediately after the half-hour mark. And Ionel Melinte converted all but one of the conversions for a 26-0 advantage.

The Dutch, on the other hand, put up a strong performance in the second half at the National Rugby Centre. Scoring tries through Spike Salman and Christopher Raymond just before halftime. Romania, already ahead 26-12, held their line intact in the second half and added a couple more tries for a 38-12 victory.

The Dutch resistance was finally broken in the 71st minute, with Nicolas Onutu crossing the line before skipper Mihai Macovei added a sixth five minutes later. “We were 26-0 ahead and then let the Netherlands back into things,” Romania head coach Andy Robinson stated after the game. We are good when we play well, but we lose focus at times, which is a lesson for us.

Now we’ll play some games in the summer to prepare for the repechage, which will take place in November – as a squad, we need to get fitter, but we can improve from here.

Since returning to European rugby’s second tier for the first time in 19 years in 2021, the Netherlands has yet to win in nine games. However, with more exposure against higher-ranked teams, head coach Zane Gardiner is certain that they will continue to progress as a team.

We just need more time at this level; we can compete in patches of games right now, but we need to compete for 80 minutes at a time, he explained. Rugby Fans can buy RWC 2023 Tickets from our website.

Romania will now compete in the Last Qualification Tournament against three other teams

Georgia wins for the fifth time in a row

Georgia, meanwhile, won their fifth consecutive Rugby Europe Championship title in Tbilisi, defeating fellow European Rugby World Cup 2023 qualifiers Spain 49-15. With half an hour to go and Georgia just ahead 21-15, the game was on a knife’s edge, but the Lelos turned up the heat in the last quarter, scoring four converted tries.

Vasil Lobzhanidze, a scrum-half, kicked the first drop goal of his 64-test career in the third minute at the Dinamo Stadium.

After a penalty exchange between the respective fly-halves, Tedo Abzhandadze and Manuel Ordas, Spain, who entered the match as the Rugby Europe Championship 2022 leader, scored the first try through dangerous winger Jordi Jorba.

Georgia quickly responded through fellow number 14 Akaki Tabutsadze, who scored his 11th try in as many games, and flanker Optra Giorgadze, who added another try to make the half-time score 18-8.

To get back into the game, Spain needed to score first, and they did so nine minutes into the second half when hooker Santiago Ovejero rumbled over, with Ordas adding the trimmings to make it a three-point game.

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Spain, on the other hand, failed to worry the scorers after that, and Georgia went up a gear to win convincingly. Before Captain Merab Sharikadze sprinted beneath the posts to create more gap between the teams, an Abzhandadze penalty made it 21-15.

Soon after, Tabutsadze and Giorgidze both scored their second tries of the game, and hooker Giorgi Chkoidze completed an outstanding victory. We played well when it mattered in this game, and winning the trophy again means everything to us. Spain is a talented team that played well, but we played better, and now we start preparing for next year’s World Cup,” Georgia head coach Levan Maisashvili stated.

In defeat, Spain’s head coach, Santiago Santos, was stoic. “We have to congratulate Georgia; they did a better job and deserved to win,” he remarked. It’s upsetting to lose this game, but the greater picture is that we’ll be at the World Cup, and we’re excited to see how the sport develops in our country.

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