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Romania 3-0 Nigeria - November 16, 2005 / Friendlies 2005

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Friendlies 2005 - Intercontinental

Stadionul Steaua - Bucarest - Romania

November 16, 2005

500

Romania

3 - 0

Nigeria

Daniel Niculae

17'

Florentin Petre

49'

Laurentiu Rosu

89'

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17' - Goal Daniel Niculae17

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46' - Substitution Banel Nicolitais substituted by Florentin Petre photo Sorin Ioan Paraschiv

46' - Substitution Costin Lazaris substituted by Sorin Ioan Paraschiv photo Ionut Mazilu

46' - Substitution Daniel Niculaeis substituted by Ionut Mazilu46

49' - Goal Florentin Petre49

58' - Substitution Abiodun Agunbiadeis substituted by Emma Onuh

66' - Substitution Nicolae Dicais substituted by Laurentiu Rosu66

75' - Substitution Razvan Ratis substituted by Mihai Nesu75

85' - Substitution Flavius Stoicanis substituted by Valentin Badoi85

89' - Goal Laurentiu Rosu89

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Romania

3 - 0

Nigeria

Romania Nigeria

Team line-ups

Romania

Coman

Danut Coman

Romania

B.date28/03/1979

Age26 years

H1m80

positionGoalkeeper

Goian

Nicolae Dorin Goian

Romania

B.date12/12/1980

Age24 years

H1m94

positionCentral defender

Tamas

Gabriel Tamas

Romania

B.date09/11/1983

Age22 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

Rat75

Razvan Rat

Romania

B.date26/05/1981

Age24 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

Nicolita46

Banel Nicolita

Romania

B.date07/01/1985

Age20 years

H1m77

positionRight full-back

Stoican85

Flavius Stoican

Romania

B.date24/11/1976

Age28 years

H1m80

positionRight full-back

Lazar46

Costin Lazar

Romania

B.date24/04/1981

Age24 years

H1m79

positionDefensive Midfielder

Bostina

Gabriel Bostina

Romania

B.date22/05/1977

Age28 years

H1m82

positionLeft Midfielder

Cocis

Razvan Cocis

Romania

B.date19/02/1983

Age22 years

H1m81

positionCentre Midfield

Dica66

Nicolae Dica

Romania

B.date09/05/1980

Age25 years

H1m81

positionOffensive Midfielder

Niculae1746

Daniel Niculae

Romania

B.date06/10/1982

Age23 years

H1m86

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Danut Coman		26	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Nicolae Dorin Goian		24	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gabriel Tamas		22	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Razvan Rat	75	24	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Banel Nicolita	46	20	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Flavius Stoican	85	28	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Costin Lazar	46	24	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gabriel Bostina		28	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Razvan Cocis		22	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Nicolae Dica	66	25	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Daniel Niculae	1746	23	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Nigeria

Aiyenugba

Dele Aiyenugba

Nigeria

B.date20/11/1983

Age21 years

H1m80

positionGoalkeeper

Adegoke

Mutiu Adegoke

Nigeria

B.date10/02/1984

Age21 years

H1m80

positionDefender

Raji

Nojim Raji

Nigeria

B.date02/08/1984

Age21 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

Sodje

Sam Sodje

Nigeria

B.date25/05/1979

Age26 years

H1m83

positionRight central defender

Obiefule

Paul Ikechukwu Obiefule

Nigeria

B.date15/05/1986

Age19 years

H1m83

positionDefensive Midfielder

Kaita

Sani Kaita

Nigeria

B.date02/05/1986

Age19 years

H1m79

positionDefensive Midfielder

Agunbiade58

Abiodun Agunbiade

Nigeria

B.date02/01/1983

Age22 years

H1m72

positionRight Midfielder

Salihu

Nasiru Salihu

Nigeria

B.date12/01/1979

Age26 years

positionMidfield

Ledor

Sam Ledor

Nigeria

B.date15/12/1986

Age18 years

H1m83

positionMidfield

Tyavkase

David Tyavkase

Nigeria

B.date30/12/1984

Age20 years

H1m78

positionForward

Akwuegbu

Benedict Akwuegbu

Nigeria

B.date03/11/1974

Age31 years

H1m90

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Dele Aiyenugba		21	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mutiu Adegoke		21	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Nojim Raji		21	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Sam Sodje		26	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Paul Ikechukwu Obiefule		19	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Sani Kaita		19	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Abiodun Agunbiade	58	22	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Nasiru Salihu		26	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Sam Ledor		18	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Tyavkase		20	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Benedict Akwuegbu		31	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

22.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Valentin Badoi	85	29	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mihai Nesu	75	22	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Sorin Ioan Paraschiv	46	24	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Florentin Petre	4946	29	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Laurentiu Rosu	8966	30	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Ionut Mazilu	46	23	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Emma Onuh	58		1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Daniel Niculae

Adrian Mutu

OUT

Danut Coman

Bogdan Lobont

OUT

Gabriel Bostina

Dorinel Munteanu

OUT

Costin Lazar

Sorin Ioan Paraschiv

OUT

Nicolae Dorin Goian

Adrian Iencsi

OUT

Flavius Stoican

Ionut Mazilu

OUT

Nicolae Dica

Valentin Badoi

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Mutiu Adegoke

Joseph Yobo

OUT

Abiodun Agunbiade

Wilson Oruma

OUT

Paul Ikechukwu Obiefule

Chris Obodo

OUT

David Tyavkase

Obafemi Martins

OUT

Benedict Akwuegbu

Stephen Makinwa

OUT

Dele Aiyenugba

Vincent Enyeama

OUT

Nojim Raji

Obinna Nwaneri

OUT

Sani Kaita

Ayila Yussuf

OUT

Sam Sodje

Chidi Odiah

OUT

Nasiru Salihu

Peter Odemwingie

OUT

Sam Ledor

Taye Taiwo

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Victor Piturca

Success rate in this team:

58 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

54 %

Piturca vs Nigeria

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on November 16, 2005

Piturca vs Eguavoen

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on November 16, 2005

Manager

Age

Match num

Augustine Eguavoen

Success rate in this team:

75 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

66 %

Eguavoen vs Romania

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on November 16, 2005

Eguavoen vs Piturca

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on November 16, 2005

Referee

Veaceslav Banari

1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Romania1 match	General total	Nigeria1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Romania1 match	Season total	Nigeria1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on November 16, 2005					Latest figure on November 16, 2005

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Key figures

End of streak for Nigeria after 3 consecutive wins away from home in Friendlies (since 18/05/2002). It's a record streak. The first of history

End of streak for Nigeria after 6 consecutive matches without a loss away from home (since 31/01/2004). It was the best streak for the club since 25/01/1992-21/06/1994 (7 matches).

It's the first time Laurentiu Rosu scores a goal in his professional career with Romania since the 02/02/2000 (with Romania vs Latvia )

Read the next 19 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VRomania 2-1 Finland18/08/2004

VRomania 2-1 North Macedonia04/09/2004

LRomania 0-2 Netherlands26/03/2005

VRomania 3-0 Armenia08/06/2005

VRomania 2-0 Andorra17/08/2005

VRomania 2-0 Czech Republic03/09/2005

Overall

LNetherlands 2-0 Romania04/06/2005

VRomania 3-0 Armenia08/06/2005

VRomania 2-0 Andorra17/08/2005

VRomania 2-0 Czech Republic03/09/2005

VFinland 0-1 Romania08/10/2005

LRomania 1-2 Ivory Coast12/11/2005

Current form

Away

DGabon 1-1 Nigeria09/10/2004

LLibya 2-1 Nigeria20/10/2004

LSouth Africa 2-1 Nigeria17/11/2004

DRwanda 1-1 Nigeria05/06/2005

VLibya 0-1 Nigeria17/08/2005

VAlgeria 2-5 Nigeria04/09/2005

Overall

VNigeria 2-0 Gabon26/03/2005

DRwanda 1-1 Nigeria05/06/2005

DNigeria 1-1 Angola18/06/2005

VLibya 0-1 Nigeria17/08/2005

VAlgeria 2-5 Nigeria04/09/2005

VNigeria 5-1 Zimbabwe08/10/2005

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	3	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	3	0
Winless streak	0	1
Drawless streak	7	8
Scoring streak	3	5
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	3	0

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	2	3
Unbeaten streak	3	6
Drawless streak	2	3
Scoring streak	7	12
Conceding streak	1	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

2	Number of games (Competition total)	1
0	Number of games (Home / Away)	1
0	Victories (Competition total)	1
0	Victories (Home / Away)	1
1	Draws (Competition total)	0
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
1	Losses (Competition total)	0
0	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

3	Goals scored (Competition total)	1
0	Goals scored (Home / Away)	1
4	Goals conceded (Competition total)	0
0	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	0
1.5	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1
0	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1
2	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0
0	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0

Betting aid

2	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	0
0	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	0
0	Clean sheets (Competition total)	1
0	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	1
0	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
2	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	0
0	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	0
0	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-0 (1 times)

Bookings

0	Yellow cards (Competition total)	0
0	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	0
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Daniel Pancu	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	1 goal	Obafemi Martins
-		Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	1 goal	Obafemi Martins
Daniel Pancu	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)		-
Adrian Iencsi	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Obafemi Martins

Historical head to head

Home

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

2 gf

0 ga

Total

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

2 gf

0 ga

Historical head to head

Away

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

2 ga

Total

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

2 ga

Largest victory

Overall	2 - 0	May 25, 1994
Home	2 - 0	May 25, 1994

Largest victory

No success yet

Latest head to head

May 25, 1994 - Rencontres amicales 1994

Romania

2 - 0

Nigeria

Best historical scorers against Nigeria

	Ilie Dumitrescu	1 goal	1994 - 1994
	Dan Petrescu	1 goal	1994 - 1994

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 25/05/1994. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Romania

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 25/05/1994. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Nigeria

Ioan Lupescu	1 match	1994 - 1994
Constantin Galca	1 match	1994 - 1994
Corneliu Papura	1 match	1994 - 1994
Viorel Moldovan	1 match	1994 - 1994
Iulian Chirita	1 match	1994 - 1994
Florin Prunea	1 match	1994 - 1994

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 25/05/1994. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Romania

Samson Siasia	1 match	1994 - 1994
Tijjani Babangida	1 match	1994 - 1994
Victor Ikpeba	1 match	1994 - 1994
Mutiu Adepoju	1 match	1994 - 1994
Nwankwo Kanu	1 match	1994 - 1994
Augustine Eguavoen	1 match	1994 - 1994