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Full time7 November 1987
USSR
12–9
Italy
Venue not recorded · Federation Internationale de Rugby Amateur Championship 1987Head-to-head

USSR won by 3 points.

Scoring

  1. 14’PUSSR penalty · Igor Mironov3–0
  2. 20’PUSSR penalty · Igor Mironov6–0
  3. 24’PItaly penalty · Stefano Bettarello6–3
  4. 33’DUSSR drop goal · Oleg Sljussar9–3
  5. 34’PItaly penalty · Stefano Bettarello9–6
  6. 71’PUSSR penalty · Igor Mironov12–6
  7. 80’PItaly penalty · Stefano Bettarello12–9

Line-ups

USSR

  1. 1Boris SamardinProp
  2. 2Rauf 'Roman' MalikovHooker
  3. 3Andrey KirpaProp
  4. 4Nikolay PlotnikovSecond row
  5. 5Sergey StrelinikovSecond row
  6. 6Viktor KushnarevFlanker
  7. 7Alexander OvchinikovFlanker
  8. 8Alexander TikhonovNumber 8
  9. 9Igor BorisovScrum-half
  10. 10Oleg SljussarFly-half
  11. 11Igor MironovWing
  12. 12Igor NechaevCentre
  13. 13Mihail ParshinCentre
  14. 14Vladislav VorapaevWing
  15. 15Evgeny ZuevFull-back
  16. Andrey SokolovBench
  17. Ramil 'Roman' HairulinBench

Italy

  1. 1Guido RossiProp
  2. 2Antonio GaleazzoHooker
  3. 3Tito LupiniProp
  4. 4Mauro GardinSecond row
  5. 5Antonio ColellaSecond row
  6. 6Raffaele DolfatoFlanker
  7. 7Marzio InnocentiFlanker
  8. 8Pietro RealeNumber 8
  9. 9Francesco PietroscantiScrum-half
  10. 10Stefano BettarelloFly-half
  11. 11Marcello CuttittaWing
  12. 12Rodolfo AmbrosioCentre
  13. 13Fabio GaetanielloCentre
  14. 14Luigi SalvatiWing
  15. 15Daniele TebaldiFull-back
  16. Gianni ZanonBench

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Context

All-time, USSR 9–4 Italy, 1 drawn in 14 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

USSR going in
Italy 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.