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Men's Rugby World Cup 1991 · Parc Municipal des Sports, Brive La Gaillarde · 12 October 1991Head-to-head
Full-time reportFull time
Romania won by 2 points.Half-time 6–9 · Tries 0–3

Pitch map

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365256
Totals only: no positions in the feed
Tacklesmademissed
FIJ6312
ROU6526
Kicks at goalconv.pensdrops
FIJ0/02/23
ROU1/11/10
← Romania attack · Fiji attack →Hover a try for detail · dots = tackles made · dashed = penalty goal · orange = missed · squares = rucks · triangles = line breaks and defenders beaten · rings = turnovers · bars at the foot = zone counts · thin lines = kicks from hand = attacking entries and ball won per band
  • Territory is not in the feed for this match.
  • Zone counts are not in the feed for this match.
  • Tackle positions are not in the feed for this match.
  • Kick positions are not in the feed for this match.
  • Ruck, line break, turnover, lineout and kick-from-hand positions are not in the feed for this match.
  • Tries with a dashed ring have no recorded position, so they sit in the in-goal at the end that side attacked.
Tries and goal kicks as a table
MinTeamWhatScore
36′RomaniaTry, Gheorghe Ion, converted6–4
52′RomaniaTry, Hary Dumitras12–13
56′RomaniaTry, Catalin Sasu12–17
Sample dataTerritory shares are estimated, and tries without a recorded position are placed in the in-goal. Other positions are as logged by the match feed and approximate.

Score progression

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05101520HT0′20′40′60′80′
36′Gheorghe Ion52′Hary Dumitras56′Catalin Sasu
FIJ

Team stats

ROU
0%Possession100%
92Carries80
332Metres gained287
6Clean breaks3
26Defenders beaten12
131Passes81
17Offloads10
63Tackles made65
12Tackles missed26
24/32Rucks won20/25
19/24Lineouts won16/18
15/16Scrums won15/15
4/5Mauls won17/18
9Penalties conceded15
45Kicks from hand56
Goal kicking
FIJ conversions 0/0, penalties 2/2 · ROU conversions 1/1, penalties 1/1. Pale segment = set piece lost.

Match statistics and event positions come from World Rugby’s public match feed, which is unofficial and not licensed for reuse; TheBreakdown reduces them to the figures shown. This feed has team statistics but no positions for this match.

Line-ups

Fiji

  1. 1Peni VolavolaProp
  2. 2Dranivesi BaleiwaiHooker
  3. 3Naibuka VuliProp
  4. 4Ilaitia SavaiSecond row
  5. 5Aisake NadoloSecond row
  6. 6Ifereimi TawakeFlanker
  7. 7Alifereti DereFlanker
  8. 8Max OlssonNumber 8
  9. 9Pauliasi TabulutuScrum-half
  10. 10Tomasi RabakaFly-half
  11. 11Tevita VonolagiWing
  12. 12Kalaveti NaisoroCentre
  13. 13Noa NadrukuCentre
  14. 14Filimoni SeruWing
  15. 15Opeti TuruvaFull-back
  16. 19Pita NarumaBench
  17. 20Epeli NaituivauBench

Romania

  1. 1Constantin StanProp
  2. 2Gheorghe IonHooker
  3. 3Gabriel VladProp
  4. 4Constantin CojocariuSecond row
  5. 5Sandu CiorascuSecond row
  6. 6Gheorghe DinuFlanker
  7. 7Nicusor MarinFlanker
  8. 8Hary DumitrasNumber 8
  9. 9Daniel NeagaScrum-half
  10. 10Neculai NichiteanFly-half
  11. 11Lucian ColceriuWing
  12. 12Nicolaie FulinaCentre
  13. 13Adrian LunguCentre
  14. 14Catalin SasuWing
  15. 15Nicolae RaceanFull-back
  16. 17Ilie IvanciucBench

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Context

All-time, Fiji 2–1 Romania in 3 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Fiji going in
Romania going in

Also on this day

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