TheBreakdown
Full time18 November 2017
Romania
17–13
Samoa
Stadionul National Arcul de Triumf, Bucharest, Romania · Tour 2017Head-to-head

Romania won by 4 points.

Scoring

  1. 19’PRomania penalty · Florin Vlaicu3–0
  2. 36’PSamoa penalty · Tim Nanai-Williams3–3
  3. 38’TSamoa try · Motu Matu'u3–8
  4. 39’CSamoa conversion · Tim Nanai-Williams3–10
  5. 50’PSamoa penalty · Tim Nanai-Williams3–13
  6. 59’TRomania try · Andrei Radoi8–13
  7. 60’CRomania conversion · Florin Vlaicu10–13
  8. 80’CRomania conversion · Florin Vlaicu12–13
  9. 80’TRomania try · Ovidiu Cojocaru17–13

Line-ups

Romania

  1. 1Mihaita LazarProp
  2. 2Andrei RadoiHooker
  3. 3Andrei UrsacheProp
  4. 4Johannes van HeerdenSecond row
  5. 5Marius AntonescuSecond row
  6. 6Andrei GorcioaiaFlanker
  7. 7Mihai MacoveiFlanker
  8. 8Stelian BurceaNumber 8
  9. 9Florin SurugiuScrum-half
  10. 10Florin VlaicuFly-half
  11. 11Ionut DumitruWing
  12. 12Sione FakaosileaCentre
  13. 13Paula KinikinilauCentre
  14. 14Fonovai TangimanaWing
  15. 15Marius SimionescuFull-back
  16. 16Ionel BadiuBench
  17. 17Ovidiu CojocaruBench
  18. 18Alexandru GordasBench
  19. 19Ionut MuresanBench
  20. 20Vlad NistorBench
  21. 21Tudorel BratuBench
  22. 22Jack UmagaBench
  23. 23Robert NeaguBench

Samoa

  1. 1Jordan LayProp
  2. 2Motu Matu'uHooker
  3. 3Donald BrighouseProp
  4. 4Faatiga LemaluSecond row
  5. 5Chris VuiSecond row
  6. 6Piula Fa'asaleleFlanker
  7. 7Jack LamFlanker
  8. 8Ofisa TreviranusNumber 8
  9. 9Dwayne PolataivaoScrum-half
  10. 10Tim Nanai-WilliamsFly-half
  11. 11David LemiWing
  12. 12Rey Lee-LoCentre
  13. 13Kieron FonotiaCentre
  14. 14Paul PerezWing
  15. 15Ah See TualaFull-back
  16. 16Manu LeiatauaBench
  17. 17James LayBench
  18. 18Hisa SasagiBench
  19. 19Brandon NansenBench
  20. 20Maurie FaasavaluBench
  21. 21Melani MatavaoBench
  22. 22JJ TaulagiBench
  23. 23Alapati LeiuaBench

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Context

All-time, Romania 3–1 Samoa in 4 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Romania going in
Samoa 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.