On Saturday in Lisbon, Romania secured a dramatic 28-27 win against
\nPortugal in the second leg of the Rugby Europe Championship. The Romanians
\nmanaged to win in the last minutes of a game when they had been dominated all
\nthe time. Alexandru Savin scored the first try for the Romanian side in the 49th
\nminute; Nicolas Onutu added a second in the 74th minute and Ovidiu
\nCojocaru scored a third on 79 minutes. Daniel Plai converted the last two tries
\nwhile Florin Vlaicu converted three penalty shots on minutes 4, 21 and 34. The
\nRomanian side is to play Spain in Bucharest next week. <\/p>\n
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The 2021 and 2022 editions of Rugby Europe Championship are counting
\ntowards qualification for the World Cup due in France in 2023. Under the
\nregulations, the first two sides in the ranking are directly qualified for the
\nfinal tournament whereas the team on the third position will play a tie
\ngame. <\/p>\n
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Let’s move on to handball now, as Romanian women’s side CSM Bucharest
\nwill be up against Russian side CSKA Moscow in the quarterfinals of the
\nChampions League. CSM lost to SCM Ramnicu Valcea in Bucharest on Saturday 21-27
\nbut won on aggregate after a 33-24 victory in the first game. The Russians
\nsecured an aggregate win against Krim Mercator Ljubljana of Slovenia. <\/p>\n
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In men’s competitions, the selection of Kosovo obtained an unexpected
\n30-25 win against the Romanian national handball side in Group 8 of the second
\nround of the European Championship preliminaries. Sweden ranks first in the
\ngroup with 6 points out of three games followed by Romania and Kosovo with 3
\npoints out of 4 games. Montenegro comes 4th with 2 points out of 3
\ngames. The first two sides in each group as well as the four best sides on the
\nthird position are qualified for the final tournament. <\/p>\n
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Last weekend saw the football games counting towards the 27th
\nleg of Romania’s first league championship. On Friday in Medias, Universitatea
\nCraiova clinched a 2-0 win against local side Gaz Metan. On Saturday, FC
\nVoluntari secured a 1-0 away win against Academica Clinceni whereas the match
\npitching Hermannstadt against Viitorul Constanta ended in a goaless draw. FCSB
\nobtained a 1-0 win against UTA Arad. <\/p>\n
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On Sunday, Astra Giurgiu won 1-0 against Chindia Targoviste in Buzau
\nwhile CFR Cluj obtained a 4-0 home win against Poli Iasi. Monday will see two
\ngames: FC Botosani versus Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe and Dinamo Bucharest versus FC
\nArges. FCSB and CFR are topping the table each with 60 points followed by
\nCraiova seven points less. <\/p>\n
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