Saturday 8th June 2013 Romania KO: 18:00 Russia Stadionul National Arcul de Triumf, Bucharest Facts & Figures

KEY FACTS HEAD TO HEAD

• Romania have won three out of the last five meetings • Saturday’s meeting will be the 31st time the two sides between the two countries, with a a 33-3 win 2001, a 25-0 have met. Romania have won twenty one of these win in 2012 and a 29-14 win in 2013. On the other two meetings, Russia in comparison have only won eight. occasions, there was a21-21 draw in 2010 and a 28-19 There has been one 21-21 draw in 2010. victory for Russia in 2009. This will be the second meeting • The first time the two teams met was back in between the two sides in the IRB Nations Cup. The first was September 1976. Romania came out on top that day back in June 2008 with Romania coming out on top 13-12. 14-3. • Romania have won six of their last 10 at Arcul de Triumf • The last meeting between the two was back in stadium, Bucharest. This included February’s encounter with February 2013 in Bucharest, Romania came out 29-14 Russia, which ended 29-14 in favour of Romania. Russia have victors. only ever won four times at this ground in the 13 times they • Romania’s highest margin of victory over the Russians have played here. These came against Romania in 2007 (22- was in 1994 (30-0) and in 2011 (33-3). Russia’s highest 12) and 2009 (28-19) and against Uruguay in 2009 (29-26) margin of victory against their Romanian opponents and 2012 (19-13). was in 2004, when they won 23-9 in Almaty, • Both teams are coached by Welshmen. is the Kazakhstan. head coach of Romania and Kingsley Jones of Russia. • It will be the 13th meeting of these sides in the city • Full back YURY KUSHNAREV could pass 350 points for Russia of Bucharest. Romania have only lost twice to Russia if he scores two points on Saturday. His points total stands at when playing here. Both of these defeats were at 348 and he is currently Russia’s record points scorer. Saturday’s venue, the Arcul de Triumf stadium, in 2007 (22-12) and 2009 (28-19). • There is very little between the packs in terms of size. UNDER THE MICROSCOPE Romania will have a 2kg per man weight advantage up front on Saturday, weighing in at an average • Romania have failed to score a try on five occasions in their 109kg per man. Russia’s 107kg per man compares last 20 games. Russia have failed to score a try in their last favourably. 20 games on six occasions. This included a game against Romania which they lost 25-0 in February 2012. • A win for Russia on Saturday would be the first time since FORM GUIDE early 2010 that they have won three consecutive matches. • If DANIEL CARPO was to score a try on Saturday, he would • Romania have won four of their last five games, the become Romania’s top try scorer in fixtures between the other result being a draw back in March against two. Georgia which finished 9-9. Romania have not conceded more than 15 points in their last five TEAM NEWS games. • Russia have won three of their last five matches. These • PAULICA ION has played in more matches between these were a 43-32 win against Belgium, a 31-23 win over two sides than any other player, appearing eight games for Portugal and a 13-9 win over Spain. Their two losses Romania. came against Georgia (23-9) and Romania (29-14). In • CONSTANTIN PRISTAVITA and IONUT DUMITRU will make their four previous matches, they have conceded over their Test debuts on Saturday. twenty points in each game. • In addition, replacements DORIN LAZAR, VLAD NISTOR and FLORIN IONITA will make their Test debuts if they come off the bench for Romania on Saturday. ARE YOU EXPERIENCED? • wins his 40th cap for Romania on Saturday. MACOVEI made his Test debut in a 58-0 win over Ukraine in • Romania field a more experienced starting XV with a 2006. total of 501 caps compared to Russia’s total of 289. • wins his 50th cap for Romania this • Russia’s ARTEM FATAKHOV is the oldest man on the weekend. CALAFETEANU made his Test debut in a 25-10 win field on Saturday at the age of 33. over Japan in 2004. • Romania’s VLAD NISTOR is the youngest man on the • CATALIN FERCU and both win their 60th field at the age of 19. caps for Romania against Russia on Saturday. FERCU made his debut in a 22-20 win over Canada in 2005 whilst VLAICU made his Test debut in a 58-0 win over Ukraine. MAN IN THE MIDDLE • ILYA OSMINKO will make his Test debut for Russia. ALEXANDER KHUDYAKOV will also make his Test debut for • JOAQUIN MONTES of Uruguay will referee Saturday’s Russia if he comes off the bench this weekend. match between Romania and Russia. It will be MONTES’ 10th Test match that he has refereed.

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ROMANIA Catalin IRB RANKING: 18 Fercu Test #: 391 RC Timisoara Replacements 16 Eugen Capatana (RC Timisoara) 14 13 12 11 17 Horatiu Pungea (RC Timisoara) Ionut Csaba Florin Adrian 18 Dorin Lazar (RC Timisoara) Dumitru Gal Vlaicu Matei 19 Vlad Nistor (Castres Olympique) CSA Steaua Bucuresti CSM CSA Steaua Bucuresti Limoges 20 Florin Surugiu (CSM Bucharest) 21 Florin Ionita (CSA Steaua Bucuresti) 10 9 22 Ionut Botezatu (CSM) Tiberius Valentin Ionut Dimofte Calafeteanu Rouen RC Timisoara

8 Key Stats Daniel # Caps Starting Lineup: 501 Avg Age Starting Lineup: 26 Carpo Oldest Player: Paulica Ion (30) RC Timisoara Youngest Player: Vlad Nistor (19) 6 7 Avg Weight Forwards: 109 kg Viorel 5 4 Mihai Lucaci Macovei (C) Marius Valentin CSA Steaua Bucuresti Sirbe Poparlan St Nazaire Tarbes RC Timisoara Officials 3 2 1 Referee: Joaquin Montes (Uruguay) - 9 Tests Paulica Andrei Constantin Ion Radoi Pristavita Tests at Venue: 0 Tests Romania: 0 Tests USA Perpignan CSM CSM Russia: 0 Tests Test Debut: 13/12/2011 - Hong Kong v Kenya Assistant Referee 1: Robert Diaconescu (Romania) Assistant Referee 2: 1 2 3 Crisitian Serban (Romanian) Alexey Valery Evgeny Volkov Tsnobiladze Pronenko TV Match Official: VVA Podmoskovye Enisey STM Enisey STM Razvan Iordachescu (Romania)

4 5 6 Ilya Denis 7 Osminko Antonov Pavel Andrey Butenko Slava CSP Moscow Slava CSP Moscow Temnov (C) Enisey STM Enisey STM 8 Replacements Artem 16 Andrey Polivalov (Strela-Agro) Fatakhov 17 Innokentiy Zykov (Enisey STM) Strela-Agro 18 Evgeny Matveev (VVA Podmoskovye) 19 Andrey Garbuzov (Krasny Yar) 9 10 20 Anton Ryabov (Krasny Yar) Alexey Sergey 21 Alexander Khudyakov (Krasny Yar) Shcherban Sugrobov 22 Ivan Kotov (Kuban Krasnodar) Enisey STM Slava CSP Moscow

11 12 13 14 Igor Alexey Yaroslav Andrey Kurashov Makovetskiy Rechnev Otrokov Key Stats Enisey STM Krasny Yar Enisey STM Krasny Yar # Caps Starting Lineup: 289 Avg Age Starting Lineup: 28 Oldest Player: Artem Fatakhov (33) 15 Youngest Player: Alexey Shcherban (22) Avg Weight Forwards: 107 kg Yury Kushnarev Kuban Krasnodar

RUSSIA IRB RANKING: 19 Test #: 148

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Recent Results Date Team A Result Team B Venue 09/02/2013 Romania 29 14 Russia Bucharest 25/02/2012 Russia 0 25 Romania Sochi 26/02/2011 Romania 33 3 Russia Bucharest 27/02/2010 Russia 21 21 Romania Sochi 28/02/2009 Romania 19 28 Russia Bucharest

Summary Romania 15 Matches (1 Draw) Russia 9 Won 5 363 Points 227 40 Tries 21 23 Conversions 13 39 Penalties 32 0 Drop Goals 0

Player Records For Romania against Russia For Russia against Romania - 9 Appearances 9 - 3 Players Florin Vlaicu - 52 Points 43 - Yury Kushnarev 2 Players - 3 Tries 5 - Alexander Gvozdovsky Florin Vlaicu - 7 Conversions 4 - 2 Players Florin Vlaicu - 11 Penalties 10 - Yury Kushnarev - Drop Goals -

Player Records in a Match For Romania against Russia For Russia against Romania Florin Vlaicu on 09/02/2013 - 24 Points 13 - Vladimir Simonov on 20/03/2004 On 3 Occasions - 2 Tries 2 - On 2 Occasions Petre Mitu on 18/03/2001 - 4 Conversions 2 - On 4 Occasions On 2 Occasions - 5 Penalties 4 - On 3 Occasions - Drop Goals -

Team Records in a Match For Romania against Russia For Russia against Romania On 18/03/2001 - 42 Points 33 - On 20/03/2004 On 2 Occasions - 5 Tries 4 - On 20/03/2004 On 18/03/2001 - 4 Conversions 2 - On 5 Occasions On 2 Occasions - 5 Penalties 4 - On 3 Occasions - Drop Goals -

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Head Coach: Lynn Howells Recent Matches Debut: 02/02/2013 v Portugal (W 19-13) Date Opponent Result Venue Winning Ratio: 80.00% Average Tries per Match: 1.60 16/03/2013 Georgia D 9 9 Bucharest

09/03/2013 Belgium W 32 14 Brussels Romania Record Under Lynn Howells 23/02/2013 Spain W 25 15 Gijon 4 Wins 1 Drawn 0 Lost 09/02/2013 Russia W 29 14 Bucharest 114 For Points 65 Against 02/02/2013 Portugal W 19 13 Lisbon 8 For Tries 5 Against

7 For Conversions 2 Against Points For 114

20 For Penalties 12 Against Points Ag 65

0 For Drop Goals 0 Against Tries For 8

Tries Ag 5 Player Info For Romania

Caps as Caps v Player Pos Age Debut Caps Won Drawn Lost Points Tries Cons Pens DGs Sub Opponent Constantin Pristavita 1 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Andrei Radoi 2 26 22/03/2008 24 13 2 16 1 7 5 1 0 0 0 Paulica Ion 3 30 22/10/2003 56 22 8 26 2 28 5 1 0 0 0 Valentin Poparlan 4 25 16/06/2007 23 12 3 12 0 11 25 5 0 0 0 Marius Sirbe 5 26 22/03/2008 15 6 1 11 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 6 26 28/11/2009 17 4 2 11 1 5 5 1 0 0 0 Mihai Macovei (C) 7 26 03/06/2006 39 11 7 19 1 19 25 5 0 0 0 Daniel Carpo 8 28 23/02/2008 42 13 7 26 3 13 40 8 0 0 0 Valentin Calafeteanu 9 28 20/11/2004 49 28 2 25 2 22 159 8 19 26 1 Tiberius Ionut Dimofte 10 28 26/06/2004 61 10 6 34 3 24 95 13 3 8 0 Adrian Matei 11 27 16/03/2013 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Florin Vlaicu 12 26 03/06/2006 59 17 6 33 3 23 343 5 66 60 2 Csaba Gal 13 28 26/11/2005 56 19 4 28 2 26 17 3 1 0 0 Ionut Dumitru 14 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Catalin Fercu 15 26 19/11/2005 59 1 7 38 3 18 120 24 0 0 0 Total 501 156 55 279 23 199 839 74 89 94 3 Eugen Capatana 16 26 31/03/2012 6 6 1 5 1 0 10 2 0 0 0 Horatiu Pungea 17 27 10/11/2012 5 4 0 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 Dorin Lazar 18 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Vlad Nistor 19 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Florin Surugiu 20 28 11/06/2008 29 16 4 17 1 11 10 2 0 0 0 Florin Ionita 21 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ionut Botezatu 22 25 14/02/2009 14 6 2 6 1 7 5 1 0 0 0 Records For Romania Caps Tries Points 91 - Cristian Petre 33 - Petre Motrescu 369 - Danut Dumbrava 77 - Adrian Lungu 28 - Gabriel Brezoianu 343 - Florin Vlaicu 77 - Romeo Stefan Gontineac 27 - Florica Murariu 335 - Petre Mitu

Player Records (In a Match) Team Records (In a Match) Points: 30 - Ionut Tofan v Spain on 05/10/2002 Points: 100 v Bulgaria on 21/09/1976 Tries: 5 - 3 players Tries: 17 v Morocco on 17/11/1976 Conversions: 12 - Virgil Popisteanu v Portugal on 13/04/1996 Conversions: 12 v Portugal on 13/04/1996 Penalties: 6 - 3 players Penalties: 7 v Argentina Jaguars on 15/06/2010 Drop Goals: 3 - 2 players Drop Goals: 4 v West Germany on 29/10/1967

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Head Coach: Kingsley Jones Recent Matches Debut: 11/02/2012 v Portugal (W 33-32) Date Opponent Result Venue Winning Ratio: 46.67% Average Tries per Match: 2.27 16/03/2013 Belgium W 43 32 Sochi

Russia Record Under Kingsley Jones 09/03/2013 Portugal W 31 23 Coimbra 7 Wins 0 Drawn 8 Lost 23/02/2013 Georgia L 9 23 Sochi 296 For Points 429 Against 09/02/2013 Romania L 14 29 Bucharest 34 For Tries 49 Against 02/02/2013 Spain W 13 9 Sochi 24 For Conversions 38 Against Points For 110 26 For Penalties 33 Against Points Ag 116

0 For Drop Goals 3 Against Tries For 13

Tries Ag 9 Player Info For Russia

Caps as Caps v Player Pos Age Debut Caps Won Drawn Lost Points Tries Cons Pens DGs Sub Opponent Alexey Volkov 1 26 19/04/2008 20 12 3 8 0 12 5 1 0 0 0 Valery Tsnobiladze 2 32 23/10/2010 16 2 2 5 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 Evgeny Pronenko 3 29 07/02/2009 30 4 3 12 1 17 0 0 0 0 0 Ilya Osminko 4 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Denis Antonov 5 26 12/06/2011 12 1 1 4 0 8 10 2 0 0 0 Pavel Butenko 6 26 10/03/2012 11 3 1 4 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 Andrey Temnov (C) 7 30 11/06/2005 26 4 3 15 1 10 20 4 0 0 0 Artem Fatakhov 8 33 12/11/2005 52 13 5 22 2 28 5 1 0 0 0 Alexey Shcherban 9 22 23/10/2010 8 5 0 2 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 Sergey Sugrobov 10 30 26/02/2005 12 4 1 5 0 7 25 0 5 5 0 Igor Kurashov 11 26 27/05/2006 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Alexey Makovetskiy 12 30 23/01/2010 28 3 2 11 0 17 15 3 0 0 0 Yaroslav Rechnev 13 31 25/05/2003 13 1 1 6 0 7 5 1 0 0 0 Andrey Otrokov 14 27 10/03/2012 5 1 0 2 0 3 10 2 0 0 0 Yury Kushnarev 15 28 12/11/2005 54 8 6 28 2 24 348 6 45 76 0 Total 289 63 28 126 6 157 443 20 50 81 0 Andrey Polivalov 16 26 23/02/2013 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 Innokentiy Zykov 17 32 11/02/2012 9 6 0 4 0 5 5 1 0 0 0 Evgeny Matveev 18 29 21/04/2007 33 17 5 15 1 17 25 5 0 0 0 Andrey Garbuzov 19 29 26/02/2005 46 16 7 20 1 25 25 5 0 0 0 Anton Ryabov 20 24 12/06/2011 8 4 1 3 0 5 20 0 4 4 0 Alexander Khudyakov 21 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ivan Kotov 22 24 08/06/2012 3 0 0 1 0 2 5 1 0 0 0

Records For Russia Caps Tries Points 78 - Andrey Kuzin 31 - Vyacheslav Grachev 348 - Yury Kushnarev 75 - Alexander Khrokin 25 - Andrey Kuzin 347 - Konstantin Rachkov 73 - Vyacheslav Grachev 16 - Konstantin Rachkov 178 - Vladimir Simonov

Player Records (In a Match) Team Records (In a Match) Points: 29 - Konstantin Rachkov v Germany on 16/04/2000 Points: 104 v Denmark on 13/05/2000 Tries: 4 - 3 players Tries: 17 v Denmark on 13/05/2000 Conversions: 8 - 2 players Conversions: 8 on 3 Occasions Penalties: 6 - 2 players Penalties: 6 on 3 Occasions Drop Goals: 2 - Konstantin Rachkov v Georgia on 08/03/2003 Drop Goals: 2 v Georgia on 08/03/2003

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