Romania blast Uruguay in Teros’ worst performance of the year

Los Teros were handed their biggest loss of the year this morning, going down 40-0 against Romania in Bucharest. In what was Los Teros’ worst performance of the year the South Americans were no match for the Eastern Europeans who won the postponed fixture with ease.

The match kicked-off on Monday afternoon but was abandoned due to severe thunder storms with Romania leading 18-0. It had been suspended in the 35th minute but rest for Los Teros did not enable a different outcome as Romania stormed home in a one-sided contest.

Romania ran in five tries, two of them going to hooker Otar Turashvili. Such was the performance of the Oaks forward pack that Uruguay had no answer and could do little more than defend. Also crossing was back-rower Dorin Lazar while winger Stephen Shennan and replacements Sabin Stratila each scored once.

Veteran inside center Florin Vlaicu converted two tries and added two penalties. Meanwhile Tudorel Bratu converted a try.

Next up for Uruguay is a fully capped international against Spain on Saturday. Back-to-back losses for the South Americans would harm the country’s World Ranking. Romania will also be playing on Saturday, doing so against the Argentina XV in a non-capped international.

 

SCORING

ROMANIA 40
Tries – O. Turashvili 2 (5′, 69′), S. Shennan (20′), M. Lazar (61′), S. Stratila (73′)
Cons – F. Vlaicu 2/4 (6′, 21′), T. Bratu 1/1 (74′)
Pens – F. Vlaicu 2/2 (10′, 37′)
Yellow cards – V. Lucaci (41′)

URUGUAY 0

 

TEAMS

ROMANIA
1 Gigi Militaru (17 Constantin Pristavita 58′), 2 Otar Turashvili (16 Andrei Radoi 71′), 3 Alexandru Tarus (18 Alex Gordas 64′), 4 Johan van Heerden (19 Valentin Poparlan 51′), 5 Marius Antonescu, 6 Dorin Lazar, 7 Viorel Lucaci, 8 Stelian Burcea (capt.) (20 Razvan Ailenei 67′), 9 Valentin Calafeteanu (21 Tudorel Bratu 73′), 10 Jody Rose (23 Sabin Stratila 69′), 11 Adrian Apostol, 12 Florin Vlaicu, 13 Jack Umaga, 14 Stephen Shennan (22 Dennis Perju HT), 15 Catalin Fercu

URUGUAY
1 Mateo Sanguinetti (18 Juan Echeverría 58′), 2 Germán Kessler, 3 Mario Sagario (17 Diego Arbelo 62′), 4 Diego Magno (19 Ignacio Dotti 51′), 5 Diego Ayala, 6 Juan Manuel Gaminara (capt.), 7 Matías Beer, 8 Gonzalo Campomar, 9 Guillermo Lijtenstein (22 Santiago Arata 52′), 10 Martín Secco, 11 Andrés Rocco, 12 Facundo Klappenbach (20 Andrés Vilaseca 36′), 13 Nicolás Freitas, 14 Leandro Leivas (21 Pedro Deal 64′), 15 Federico Favaro (23 Rodrigo Silva 36′)

Not used: 16 Ignacio Secco

 

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Damián Schneider (UAR)