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  1. England run 10 tries past Romania

    England run 10 tries past Romania

    Mark Cueto and Chris Ashton both scored a hat-trick of tries as England cruised to a 67-3 win over Romania in Dunedin. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:80'
    • England
    • Romania
    • FT Cueto is down once again receiving treatment that that right knee and Poitre has decided that enough is enough and puts an end to the clash.
    • 80+1 Flood breaks for England. They recycle the ball across the field to Tindall who has pretty much played himself to a standstill. England get a penalty but time has run out. They'll have to tap and go if they want another try ...
    • 80' Dumbrava breaks for Romania ... he chips upfield and although Foden fails to collect, Tindall is the next Englishman there and he dives on it. Romania could be in real trouble now as England look to run it from their own half ...
    • 77' England continue to push for another try. The ball just bounces off Tindall's shoulder. Armitage collects before offloading to Ashton but he is denied a fourth as Poitre has decided the ball went forward
    • 73' Romania retain possession despite boucing a pass of Mike Tindall's head. Dumbrava chips upfield and even collects himself. But he just takes his eye off the ball at the last minute and instead knocks on. Delon Armitage collects and runs the length of the pitch for a what he thinks is a try but the whistle has already gone and he will have to come all the way back
    • 71' CONVERSION ENGLAND! 67-3! Flood has been very solid since coming on at halftime and sure enough he adds the conversion from right out on the left wing
    • 70' TRY ENGLAND! 65-3! England run the ball from their own half, Foden passing in from touch to Flood ... The ball gets recycled through once again and eventually finds its way out through Mike Tindall to Chris Ashton, who wins the foot-race for the line in the left corner
    • 69' CONVERSION ENGLAND! 60-3! Flood takes England up to 60 points as he easily adds the conversion for Croft's try
    • 68' TRY ENGLAND! 58-3! Brilliant again from England. They spread the ball wide across towards the right wing. Palmer pops the ball up for Tuilagi, again on the angle. He offloads to Croft and it is Croft who runs over in the end for the try. A great whole-team try by England
    • 66' Ashton and others push Romania back about 10m up to the Romanian 22 ...
    • 64' Dumbrava squanders a golden opportunity to add another three points to Romania's tally but he pulls his penalty kick wide across the front of the posts. Shocking miss from the Romanian flyhalf. And Flood boots upfield and into Romanian territory
    • 61' CONVERSION ENGLAND! 53-3! Flood adds the conversion once again and England have passed the 50 point mark!
    • 60' TRY ENGLAND! 51-3! England get the penatly from the back of the scrum after a series of failed scrums from Romania. A couple of passes across the field from Engalnd and Tuilagi recieves the ball, forcing his way through a poor tackle and running over without any trouble
    • 58' England on the break again as Cueto is nearly put through for his fourth try of the day. The pass isn't fantastic from Moody and Cueto fails to collect, instead knocking on. It will be a Romanian scrum, deep inside their own half
    • 56' Romania knock on and Flood boots upfield. Apostol just collects and flings the ball back infield for no-one in particular. Ashton is there to dive straight on Vlaicu who has done well to collect
    • 55' England are standing firmly in defence as Romania, playing advantage, get a second chance at the scrum five and drive for the line. They are less than five metres out now as the crowd try to cheer the underdogs over the line ...
    • 54' Romania think they have scored a try when they crash over the line. They haven't heard the whistle though as Poitre said the lineout wasn't straight. There will be a scrum five ...
    • 53' Romania are enjoying an extended period of possession as Dumbrava takes the ball forward. England think they've turned the ball over by going over the top but Haskell is (wrongly) penalised for offside
    • 50' CONVERSION ENGLAND! 46-3! This time Flood does add the conversion, Foden having touched down right in between the posts
    • 49' TRY ENGLAND! 44-3! Flood finds Tuilagi on the angle after the lineout. Tuilagi does he stuff running into the Romanian 22 before offloading to Foden on the outside, and the England fullback has his name on the scoresheet!
    • 47' Cueto has gone down injured and he is staying down. It looks like a right knee injury and England hold Romania up and win the put in to the scrum
    • 47' Florin Adrian Vlaicu looks to run the ball from just inside his own half before running smack into Mike Tindall and being stopped dead
    • 44' Romania miss another opportunity after getting a great chance to double their tally early in this second half. Dumbrava again had the distance but not the direction
    • 43' One halftime substitution to update you with. Valentin Nicolae Calafeteanu has come on for Cazan for the second half.
    • 42' Another missed conversion kick from England, this time from FLood who has come on for Wilkinson, from out on the right wing
    • 41' TRY ENGLAND! 39-3! Youngs breaks before waiting, waiting, waiting. Just before contact he finds Tuilagi on the wing. Tuilagi breaks before passing back to Youngs, who runs away for the try. Youngs has been brilliant so far in this clash and that's a very deserved try
    • 41' Romania get the second half underway ...
    • HT There is the whistle. The ball goes dead and referee Poitre decides that that's enough for this half.
    • 40+1' Dumbrava bounces his decent kick off the left upright from the left wing and England will have a chance to run this from their own half ...
    • 40' Ionel Cazan very nearly gets Romania an opening try as he collects on the left wing before spotting a gap. Thompson sticks his foot in and punts the ball out in to touch to concede the penalty. But there's a lengthy delay as Cazan hurt his knee in thae process
    • 38' Romania very nearly double their tally as Dumbrava boots from just inside his own half after Moody is penalised under the high ball. He has the distance but not quite the direction, pulling it just wide of the right post
    • 37' PENALTY ROMANIA! 34-3! England are penalised right from the re-start and flyhalf Marin Danut Dumbrava easily kicks the three points to get his side off the mark with a couple of minutes left of the half
    • 36' CONVERSION ENGLAND! 34-0! Wilkinson adds another two point without too much trouble and further extends England's lead
    • 35' TRY ENGLAND! 32-0! Brilliant from Louis Deacon. He just holds the pass long enough to get round his man, offloading to Thompson, who in turn finds Ashton out on the right wing. And that's Ashton's second of the match
    • 35' Romania very nearly get a chance when Florin Adrian Vlaicu nealry collects a loose ball but Youngs does well to juggle with the ball before collecting ...
    • 34' CONVERSION ENGLAND! 27-0! Wilkinson takes his conversion kick with a different ball this time and he lands it. Although it could well be because it was right in front of the posts as well! Either way, Wilkinson converts and England have the extra two points
    • 33' TRY ENGLAND! 25-0! Youngs spreads the ball to Ashton, to Wilkinson ... back to Ashton on the angle and he runs over without any trouble for the try. That's the bonus point for England
    • 32' Another penalty is given away by Romania as the front row are penalised for illegal engagement. Croft collects the lineout ball ...
    • 31' Iulian Dumitras breaks for Romania but he gives away a penalty after failing to release the ball when he was brought down by Cueto. England kick upfield for territory ...
    • 27' Once again Wilkinson misses his conversion kick. He pulls it wide of the left post from the left wing and he is really struggling with his place kicking still
    • 26' TRY ENGLAND! 20-0! Cueto recieves the ball from Croft and dives over the line. Easy for Cueto, despite referee Poitre going up to the TMO to confirm the try but it's a quick and easy decision. Definitely a try.
    • 26' Wilkinson to Haskell on the outside ... he finds Croft, who has support on the outside of him ...
    • 25' Wilkinson chips up and across field after recieving the ball. It's an inch-perfect kick to Ashton, who breaks. Ashton passes inside him to Foden. Foden back out to Ashton and then Ashton goes for the looping pass inside to Croft, cutting out a few England players who had found themselves cramped on the wing. But that last pass is forward and the move breaks down
    • 23' CONVERSION ENGLAND! 15-0! No trouble for Wilkinson on that angle as he easily converts this try from almost right in front of the posts
    • 22' TRY ENGLAND! 13-0! A great line from Cueto. England are in a three-on-two situation but Cueto has it all in hand, throwing the dummy before running over on his own on the angle
    • 21' Wilkinson finds Tuilagi, who once again breaks through the Romanian line. Moody again breaks through on the right wing. Youngs takes a quick penalty finds Steve Thompson. Wilkinson takes it to five metres short. Youngs ... Tuilagi ... Cueto ...
    • 19' Dan Cole runs into Ovidiu Tonita but England retain possession and it is Tindall who is in support to boot upfield and out of his own half for the first time since the re-start
    • 17' Ouch! Not a great kick from Wilkinson as he pulls it wide from just inside the left wing.
    • 16' TRY ENGLAND! 8-0! Wilkinson hits the gas after recieving the ball and he finds Cueto on his outside. Cueto has Foden on his outside and Tindall inside him but he needs neither as he accelerates away down the left wing and England have their first try
    • 15' Once again England concede a penalty at the scrum but they manage to regain possession just inside their own half, Corbisiero breaking through the line before being pulled down. Engalnd have men outside ...
    • 13' England are playing advantage and will come back after Tindall breaks but only manages to offload to Cosmin Aurel Ratiu. They will come all the way back for the penalty and England will kick for touch again
    • 12' A ambitious throw from Chris Ashton just comes off when he loops the ball from in touch across to Foden just inside the posts. England have men over on the left but decide to kick upfield instead of running it all the way from their own half ...
    • 10' England earn themsleves a penalty on the halfway line after Stefan Eugen Ciuntu is penalised for not rolling away from the tackle. Wilkinson kicks for touch but fails to make it and Romania reply with one of their own, their's being much better! England will have a defensive line-out
    • 8' Tuilagi skips through two tackles before a third Romanian finally manages to pull him down. Eventually though England are called back to the scrum out on the right wing, offside and a forward pass cancelling out the penalties ...
    • 5' Romania fail to find touch and England are off again but once again Romania win the penalty at the breakdown, this time only on their own 22. And this time they do find touch from their clearance
    • 4' First Foden breaks on the right wing ... then it is Cobisiero's turn in the centre of the park to take the ball on a few extra metres. England recycle the ball out to the left wing. Skipper Moody breaks before offloading to Croft. But Croft goes down before offloading. Ben Foden is furious and eventually England concede the penalty just five metres out in front of the posts
    • 2' PENALTY ENGLAND! 3-0! Wilkinson is back on form as he drills his first kick of the day right through the centre of the posts. Not the most tricky kick he will take today from right in front of the posts. But Wilkinson stayed an extra hour after England had finished training yesterday, purely praticising kicks
    • 1' Adrian Marian Apostol is immediately pushed over the sideline into touch by Moody and Ashton. England have possession ... and now a penalty. Romania fail to re-arrange themselves after losing possession and are caught offside ...
    • 1' Here we go then. Wilkinson gets the clash underway for England ...
    • - Ok, anthems completed and we are just moments away from kick-off in Dunedin
    • - The teams are running out on the pitch now with just the anthems to come before kick-off ...
    • - England’s biggest win over Romania was 134-0 in 2001. And their recent meetings look like this: 1989 Bucharest England won 58-3; 1994 Twickenham England won 54-3; 2001 Twickenham England won 134-0
    • - Today’s referee is Roman Poitre. The Frenchman is making his World Cup debut in New Zealand. And to find out more about him, all you have to do is click here.
    • - Romania: 15-Florin Adrian Vlaicu, 14-Stefan Eugen Ciuntu, 13-Ionel Cazan, 12-Iulian Dumitras,11-Adrian Marian Apostol, 10-Marin Danut Dumbrava; 9-Lucian Mihai Sirbu, 8-Ovidiu Tonita, 7-Cosmin Aurel Ratiu, 6-Sandu Stelian Burcea, 5-Cristian Constantin Petre (captain), 4-Valentin Poparlan, 3-Silviu Florea, 2-Bogdan Zebega Suman, 1-Nicolae Nere /// 16-Marius Tincu, 17-Paulica Ion, 18-Mihai Macovei, 19-Daniel Gabriel Ianus, 20-Valentin Nicolae Calafeteanu, 21-Csaba Minya Gal, 22-Catalin Nicolae
    • - Romania are resting many of their big names and have rested 11 players heading into this clash. Fly-half Marin Dumbrava missed last week’s clash against Argentina but returns this week, but there is only a space on the bench for captain and hooker Marcus Tincu. In his absence, Constantin Petre will skipper the side.
    • - England: 15-Ben Foden, 14 Chris Ashton ,13 Manu Tuilagi, 12 Mike Tindall, 11-Mark Cueto, 10-Jonny Wilkinson, 9 Ben Youngs, 8- James Haskell, 7-Lewis Moody (captain), 6-Tom Croft, 5-Tom Palmer, 4-Louis Deacon, 3-Dan Cole, 2-Steve Thompson, 1-Alex Corbisiero /// Replacements: 16 Lee Mears, 17 David Wilson, 18 Simon Shaw, 19 Tom Wood, 20 Richard Wigglesworth, 21- Toby Flood,22 Delon Armitage
    • - Mike Tindall and Jonny Wilkinson both return for England today. Mark Cueto is also making his first start of the tournament, as is Alex Corbisiero.
    • - Romania are probably a team you know less about so check out all their vital statistics by looking at Romania’s page. Just click here.
    • - How much do you know about England? Check your knowledge by perusing out team guide. Just click here to have a look at England’s page.
    • - England have faced Romania four times before and have never lost to them, a fact that bodes well for Martin Johnson’s men today
    • - By now you should know everything you need to know about all the stadiums being used in this World Cup. But just in case you don’t have a look at our venue guide. All you have to do to access it is click here
    • - Hello and welcome to LIVE coverage from England’s third Pool B game at the Rugby World Cup. They are facing Romania today at Otago Stadium in Dunedin

  • Summary

    England versus Romania
    Cueto 15’, 22’, 26’, Ashton 32’, 35’, 70’, Youngs 41’, Foden 49’, Tuilagi 61’, Croft 67’ Tries  
    Wilkinson 22’, 32’, 35’, Flood 49’, 61’, 69’, 70’ Conversions  
    Wilkinson 2’ Penalties Dumbrava 38’
      Drops  

Live Team Line-Up

  • England

    Manager: Martin Johnson

    On the Field

    • Corbisiero Substitution Out (59′)
    • Thompson Substitution Out (51′)
    • Cole Substitution In (59′) Substitution Out (41′)
    • Deacon Substitution Out (59′)
    • Palmer
    • Croft Try
    • Moody Substitution Out (62′)
    • Haskell
    • Youngs Try Substitution Out (62′)
    • Wilkinson Substitution Out (41′)
    • Cueto Tries×3
    • Tindall
    • Tuilagi Try
    • Ashton Tries×3
    • Foden Try Substitution Out (52′)

    Subs

    • Shaw Substitution In (59′)
    • Mears Substitution In (51′)
    • Wigglesworth Substitution In (62′)
    • Armitage Substitution In (52′)
    • Flood Substitution In (41′)
    • Wood Substitution In (62′)
    • Wilson Substitution In (41′)

    Injured

    None

    Suspended

    None

  • Romania

    Manager: Romeo Gontineac

    On the Field

    • Nere
    • Zebega Substitution Out (51′)
    • Florea Substitution Out (62′)
    • Popirlan
    • Petre Substitution Out (53′)
    • Burcea
    • Ratiu Substitution Out (60′)
    • Tonita
    • Sîrbu Substitution Out (42′)
    • Dumbrava
    • Apostol
    • Dumitras
    • Cazan Substitution Out (41′)
    • Ciuntu
    • Vlaicu Substitution Out (72′)

    Subs

    • Nicolae Substitution In (72′)
    • Tincu Substitution In (51′)
    • Gal Substitution In (41′)
    • Calafeteanu Substitution In (42′)
    • Ion Substitution In (62′)
    • Macovei Substitution In (53′)
    • Ianus Substitution In (60′)

    Injured

    None

    Suspended

    None

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