Romania\u2019s national football team in Ploiesti this past Sunday grabbed a 3-nil win in the match against Lithuania. The fixture counted towards Series C\u2019s fourth group, in the League of Nations\u2019 last-but-one round. Scoring for Romania were George Puscas, on 7 minutes, Claudiu Keseru in minute 47 and Nicolae Stanciu in the 66th minute. The win against Lithuania earned Romania the 2nd position in Group C, while this coming Tuesdays\u2019 away match against Montenegro is crucial, if Romania wants to maintain its runner-up status in Group C. On condition that Serbia secures its direct qualification in the European Championship at the end of the qualifying round, as a runner-up team Romania is officially entitled to continue its fight for the qualification to the Euro 2020. Lithuania was relegated to Series D in the wake of their defeat against Romania. On Tuesday Lithuania will take on Serbia in Belgrade.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s news from rugby now, as this past Saturday in Bucharest Romania\u2019s national rugby team was thrashed in the test match against the US, 5-31. This is the Unites States\u2019 7th win against Romania, in 9 games played. The Unites States also walked away with the Pershing Cup, a trophy offered by the Romanian Rugby Federation as of 2014, for the matches pitting Romania\u2019s national squad against the US.<\/p>\n
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We carry on with news from men\u2019s handball, as on Saturday, Dobrogea Sud Constanta defeated Swedish opponents Malmo, 23-22. The match counted towards the first leg of the EHF Cups\u2019 third preliminary round. On Sunday, CSM Bucharest secured a position in the Challenge Cup\u2019s round of 16, having secured a home win against Cypriot opponents Parnassos Strovolou, 47-14. The game counted towards the second leg of the competition\u2019s third preliminary round. We recall that on Saturday, also on home turf, in Bucharest, CSM also won, 32-24. In the Champions League on Sunday, Dinamo Bucharest sustained a dramatic defeat by Norwegian challengers Elverum away from home, 29-28. Elverum fatefully scored from a 7-meter throw, in the last second of the game. Dinamo Bucharest are thus 3rd-palced in the league\u2019s group D, on a par with 4th-placed Elverum, which has a poorer goal average.<\/p>\n
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And now, news from women\u2019s handball. CSM Bucharest are at the top of the table in the Champions League\u2019s group D, according to the final rankings. In Bucharest on Sunday, CSM trounced German challengers Bietigheim, 32-24. In January, in the competition\u2019s second main group, CSM face Hungarian side Gyor, Slovenia\u2019s Krim Ljubljana and German side Thuringer. Two other Romanian teams have got through to the EHF Cup\u2019s group stage. In the last preliminary round, Magura Cisnadie defeated Zvezda Zvenigorod on home turf this past Sunday, 26-18. Holders CSM Craiova secured a 19-18 home win against Borussia Dortmund, having also secured a win away from home, 19-17. The Romanian domestic championship\u2019s current leader CSM Ramnicu Valcea has sustained a double-legged defeat by Danish challengers Ikast, 22-16 away and 21-19 on home court, this past Sunday in Valcea.<\/p>\n
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