Sports weekend

At the European water polo championship held in Split, Croatia, the Romanian side played against Serbia for the ninth place in the ranking. Sadly Romania lost to Serbia 17-1 and occupied the tenth position out of the 15 participating sides.

Steliu Lambru, 09.09.2022, 12:42

At the European water polo championship held in Split, Croatia, the Romanian side played against Serbia for the ninth place in the ranking. Sadly Romania lost to Serbia 17-1 and occupied the tenth position out of the 15 participating sides.

Last night in Group B of the Conference League, British side West Ham United secured a 3-1 win against FCSB. In the other groups match Anderlecht Brussels outperformed Danish side Silkeborg 1-0.

In the group A of the preliminaries for the European Womens Volleyball Championship, on Sunday, Romanias national side will be taking on Israel in an away game. In the other game of the group, the Faeroe Island will be up against Croatia. Romania comes first in the ranking with 12 points followed by Croatia with 11, Israel with 7 and the Faeroes with no points.

This weekend will be seeing the matches of the Champions League in womens handball. Romanian side CSM is part of group A together with Ljubljana, Ferencvaros, Odense, Kristiansand, Most, Bietigheim and Brest Bretagne. In their first home game on Sunday, CSM takes on Slovenian side Ljubljana. The second Romanian side in the competition, Rapid Bucharest has joined Group B, which also includes Esbjerg, Gyor, Metz, Buducnost, Storhamar, Lokomotiv Zagreb and Kastamonou. Rapids first away game will be against Croatian side Lokomotiv Zagreb.

The rugby competition Europe Super Cup kicks off on Saturday. Romanian Wolves will be playing in the competition against Georgian sides Batumi and Black Lion and the Israelis from Tel Aviv Heat. The Romanian fifteen will be playing their first game against Tel Aviv Heat.

In the 10th leg of Romanias First Football League, FC Botosani will be up against UTA Arad on Friday. Chindia Targoviste plays Sepsi Sf. Gheorghe on Saturday, when FC Hermannstadt is up against Petrolul Ploiești. FCU Craiova takes on Rapid Bucharest. Sunday will see the matches pitching Farul Constanța against FC Argeș and CFR Cluj against CSU Craiova. The leg ends on Monday when CS Mioveni plays Universitatea Cluj and FCSB meets FC Voluntari. Rapid ranks first in the first leagues standings followed by Farul with 18 points and Petrolul with 17.

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