Romania closer to New Zealand

Romania beat Tunisia Romania 56-13 in Bistrita on Saturday, putting them into the last round of two play-off matches against Uruguay.

It was an easy win for Romania against a side whose defence was weak.

At half-time the Oaks led 30-6.

Tunisia who were without their best players scored their only try with five minutes to play.

The scorers:

For Romania:
Tries: Dimofte, Fercu, Vlaicu, Ianus, Calafeteanu, Petre, Penalty try
Cons: Dumbrava 4, Vlaicu 2
Pens: Dumbrava 3

For Tunisia:
Try: Souguir
Con: Chemseddine
Pens: Chemseddine 2

The teams:

Romania: 15 Florin Vlaicu, 14 Catalin Fercu, 13 Ionut Dimofte, 12 Csaba Gal, 11 Stefan Ciuntu 10 Dan Dumbrava 9 Valentin Ivan, 8 Alexandru Manta, 7 Daniel Ianus, 6 Stelian Burcea (captain), 5, Valentin Ursache, 4 Marius Sirbe, 3 Samuel Maris 2 Cezar Popescu, 1 Mihai Lazar.
Replacements: 16 Andrei Radoi, 17 Radu Basalau, 18 Cristian Petre, 19 Daniel Carpo, 20 Valentin Calafeteanu, 21 Ionel Cazan, 22 Catalin Nicolae.

Coaches: Romeo Gontineac, Steve McDowall

Tunisia: 15 Kherfani Abbes (captain), 14 Chelly Haithem, 13 Hamdi Amor, 12 Amor Mezgar, 11 Jabri Chadi, 10 Khalifa Chemseddine, 9 Khalfi Hossem, 8 Zegden Khaled, 7 Charni Ahmed, 6 Yosri Souguir, 5 Ben Abderrahmen Nizar, 4 Guetari Moktar, 3 Akram Aouamri, 2 Chahir Aouadi, 1 Ben Nhila Mohamed Anoir.
Replacements: 16 Kassar Mohamed El Aziz, 17 Ben Amor Abid, 18 Aymen Shili, 19 Kammoun Maher, 20 Mbarki Hamza, 21 Hamdi Jihed, 22 Marwan Ben Yahya.

Coach: Claude Saurel

Date: Saturday, 17 July
Referee: Pascal Gauzere (France)
Assistant referees: Mathieu Raynal (France), David Rosich (France)