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Wednesday, 6 November 1968
International Friendly Match

Romania 0 England 0 [0-0]
 

 

Match Summary
Romania Squad
England Squad

Stadionul 23 August, Sector 2, Bucureşti
Attendance: 65,000;
Kick-off: 2.30pm local, 1.30pm BST

 
Results 1965-1970

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Match Summary

Officials

Romania

Type

England

Referee (-) - Radoslav Fiala
x (-).

Linesmen - tbc

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  Possession  

Romania Team

 

Rank:

No official ranking;
EFO ranking

ELO rating 24th
Colours: Yellow jerseys, blue shorts, red socks.
Capt: Ion Barbu Manager: Angelo Niculescu
Romania Lineup
  Gornea, Gheorghe     G     GA
2 Sătmăreanu, Lajos     RB      
3 Barbu, Ion     LB      
4 Dinu, Cornel     RHB      
5 Mocanu, Mihai     CHB      
6 Gergey, L. Vasile     LHB      
7 Petescu, Mircea V., off 25th min.     OR      
8 Pârcălab, Ion     IR      
9 Dobrin, Nicolae, off 80th min.     CF      
10 Dumitrache, Florea     IL      
11 Lucescu, Mircea     OL      
Romania Substitutes
  Nunweiller, Radu, on 25th min. for Petescu            
  Domide, Flavius V., on 80th min. for Dobrin            

unused substitutes:

-
 
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Averages:

Age - Appearances/Goals - -

 

England Team

 
Current World Champions Colours: The 1966 Umbro away uniform - Red crew necked jerseys, white shorts, white socks.

Rank:

No official ranking;
EFO ranking

ELO rating 1st
Capt: Bobby Moore, 47th captaincy Manager: Sir Alfred Ernest Ramsey, 48 (22 January 1920), appointed 25 October 1962, effective part-time 31 December, full from May 1963.
61st match, W 39 - D 13 - L 9 - F 134 - A 63.
England Lineup
  Banks, Gordon 30   G Stoke City FC 46 41ᵍᵃ
2 Wright, Thomas J., injured off 10th min. 24 21 October 1944 RB Everton FC 2 0
3 Newton, Keith 27   LB Blackburn Rovers FC 11 0
4 Mullery, Alan P. 26 23 November 1941 RHB Tottenham Hotspur FC 12 0
5 Labone, Brian 28 23 January 1940 CHB Everton FC 12 0
6 Moore, Robert F.C. 27 12 April 1941 LHB West Ham United FC 64 2
7 Ball, Alan J. 23   OR Everton FC 28 4
8 Hunt, Roger 30   IR Liverpool FC 33 18
9 Charlton, Robert 31   CF Manchester United FC 88 46
most goals 1968
10 Hurst, Geoffrey C. 26   IL West Ham United FC 22 10
11 Peters, Martin S. 24 8 November 1943 OL West Ham United FC 22 8
England Substitutes
854   McNab, Robert, on 11th min. for Wright 25 20 July 1943 RB Arsenal FC 1 0

unused substitutes:

-

substitute record:

Bob McNab is the second player, after Norman Hunter, to make his England debut as a substitute.
 
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Averages:

Age - Appearances/Goals - -

 

    Match Report by Mike Payne

 

    Match Report by Norman Giller

Tommy Wright, who had partnered his Everton team-mate Ray Wilson at full-back against Russia, now had Blackburn's Keith Newton playing with him at left-back. England's World Cup heroes Cohen and Wilson had both had their international careers ended by injuries after playing together in twenty-seven matches. Wright and Newton, who would later continue their partnership at club level with Everton, hardly had time to get to know each other before Wright went off injured in the tenth minute to be replaced by Arsenal's Bob McNab who, despite playing out of position, gave a sound debut performance in a dreary, defence-dominated match.

Source Notes

TheFA.com
Original newspaper reports
Rothman's Yearbooks
Mike Payne's England: The Complete Post-War Record (Breedon Books Publishing Company, Derby, U.K., 1993)
Norman Giller
, Football Author

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CG