TheBreakdown
Full time1 December 2007
Portugal
8–23
Romania
Estadio Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal · European Nations Cup Men's 2008Head-to-head

Romania won by 15 points.

Scoring

  1. –PPortugal penalty · Gonçalo Malheiro3–0
  2. –TPortugal try · Goncalo Foro8–0
  3. –CRomania conversion · Florin Vlaicu8–2
  4. –CRomania conversion · Florin Vlaicu8–4
  5. –PRomania penalty · Danut Dumbrava8–7
  6. –PRomania penalty · Danut Dumbrava8–10
  7. –PRomania penalty · Florin Vlaicu8–13
  8. –TRomania try · Valentin Poparlan8–18
  9. –TRomania try · Robert Dascalu8–23

Line-ups

Portugal

  1. 1Juan Murre PekeProp
  2. 2Joao CorreiaHooker
  3. 3Cristian SpachukProp
  4. 4Eduardo AcostaSecond row
  5. 5Goncalo UvaSecond row
  6. 6Diogo CoutinhoFlanker
  7. 7Vasco UvaFlanker
  8. 8Tiago GiraoNumber 8
  9. 9Luis PissarraScrum-half
  10. 10Gonçalo MalheiroFly-half
  11. 11Goncalo ForoWing
  12. 12Francisco MiraCentre
  13. 13Federico Abreu De SousaCentre
  14. 14Antonio AguilarWing
  15. 15Pedro LealFull-back
  16. 16Rodrigo AguiarBench
  17. 17Duarte FigueiredoBench
  18. 18Juan SeverinoBench
  19. 19Antonio SarmentoBench
  20. 20Jose PintoBench
  21. 21Pedro CabralBench
  22. 22Diogo GamaBench

Romania

  1. 1Nicolae NereProp
  2. 2Marcel MihalacheHooker
  3. 3Radu BasalauProp
  4. 4Alin CosteSecond row
  5. 5Valentin PoparlanSecond row
  6. 6Vasile RusFlanker
  7. 7Mihai MacoveiFlanker
  8. 8Costica MersoiuNumber 8
  9. 9Ciprian CaplescuScrum-half
  10. 10Danut DumbravaFly-half
  11. 11Stefan Eugen CiuntuWing
  12. 12Dan VladCentre
  13. 13Csaba GalCentre
  14. 14Gheorghita BigiuWing
  15. 15Florin VlaicuFull-back
  16. 16Flavius DobreBench
  17. 17Bogdan ZebegaBench
  18. 18Cosmin RatiuBench
  19. 19Stelian BurceaBench
  20. 20Iulian AndreiBench
  21. 21Tiberius Ionut DimofteBench
  22. 22Robert DascaluBench

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Context

All-time, Portugal 8–24 Romania in 32 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Portugal going in
Romania going in

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Results to 27 September 2026. Scoring and line-ups come from World Rugby match summaries where available; older Tests may have neither.