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, 06.09.2021, 13:45

Romania’s
national football team on Sunday defeated Lichtenstein 2-0 in the 2022 World
Cup preliminaries. Scoring for Romania were Alin Toşca on minute 11 and
Cristian Manea seven minutes later. Romania dominated the game and had no
trouble securing the win. Attending the match hosted by National Arena Stadium
in Bucharest were some 10 thousand fans. Following Thursday’s win in Iceland,
this is Romania’s second consecutive victory in preliminary Group J. After five
rounds, Germany tops the group tables with 12 points, followed by Armenia with
10 points, Romania with 9 points, North Macedonia with 8 points, Iceland with 4
points and Lichtenstein with zero points. Romania will next play North
Macedonia in Skopje.



In the round of
16 at the US Open, the last Grand Slam tournament of the year, Simona Halep,
seeded 12th in the competition, lost on Sunday to Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina,
seeded 5th, score 6-3, 6-3. The Ukrainian player won at the end of 1
hour and 16 minutes of playtime. An Olympic bronze medalist in Tokyo, Svitolina
now leads 6-5 in head-to-head encounters with Halep. For reaching the round of
16, Halep will receive a 265-thousand-dollar check and 240 WTA points.




Romania won ten medals, 5 gold and 5 silver, at
the European Under-21 Rowing Championships hosted by Kruszwica, Poland. The gold
medals went to the women’s four plus one crew, the coxless four, the single scull
and the women’s eight crews, as well as to the men’s coxless four crew. Romania
ranked 1st in the medal standings. In the women’s single-scull race,
the new European champion, Simona Radiș, achieved a new world record. Radiș is
also the defending

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