{"id":285382,"date":"2025-11-15T04:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T04:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285382\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T04:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T04:03:13","slug":"november-internationals-2025-romania-vs-usa-arn-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285382\/","title":{"rendered":"November Internationals 2025 – Romania vs USA – ARN Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2025 test campaign comes to a close for the USA when they touch down in Bucharest on Saturday. It\u2019s been a frustrating year for the Eagles. Though they improved on the poor showing in Scotland, they let an early lead against Georgia go to waste and ultimately came up 13 points short. Romania meanwhile were sloppy but had too much muscle up front for the Canadians to contend with.<\/p>\n

\"\" Current World Ranking: 21<\/a> (63.02 points)
2025-11-08 \u2013 Romania 31, Canada 21 (Bucharest)
2025-07-18 \u2013 Argentina XV 52, Romania 14 (Buenos Aires)
2025-07-12 \u2013 Uruguay 70, Romania 8 (Montevideo)
2025-07-05 \u2013 Chile 40, Romania 16 (Santiago)
2025-03-16 \u2013 Portugal 7, Romania 21 (Oeiras)<\/p>\n

\"\" Current World Ranking: 16<\/a>\u00a0(67.40 points)
2025-11-08 \u2013 Georgia 43, USA 30 (Batumi)
2025-11-01 \u2013 Scotland 85, USA 0 (Edinburgh)
2025-09-14 \u2013 USA 29, Samoa 13 (Denver)
2025-09-06 \u2013 USA 21, Japan 47 (Sacramento)
2025-08-22 \u2013 Canada 34, USA 20 (Calgary)<\/p>\n

\"\"
\nIN
\nOUT<\/p>\n

2
\nStefan Buruiana
\nOvidiu Cojocaru<\/p>\n

3
\nThomas Cretu
\nCosmin Manole<\/p>\n

8
\nAdrian Mitu
\nKemal Altinok<\/p>\n

13
\nMihai Graure
\nAtila Septar<\/p>\n

\"\"
\nIN
\nOUT<\/p>\n

3
\nTonga Kofe
\nPono Davis<\/p>\n

7
\nCory Daniel
\nMakeen Alikhan<\/p>\n

David G\u00e9rard has made four changes to his Romania lineup, three enforced\u2026 captain Ovidiu Cojocaru retired after the win over Canada, while Cosmin Manole was injured and Atila Septar returned to his French club\u2026 Stefan Buruiana and Thomas Cretu come into the front row with Mihai Graure taking Septar\u2019s place in the midfield\u2026 highly-rated youngster Adrian Mitu is recalled in the back row
\nAndrei Mahu captains Romania for the first time following Cojocaru\u2019s retirement\u2026 the 34-year-old \u2013 who stands 6\u20199\u2033 (2.05m) \u2013 has been a towering presence for the Oaks since changing his allegiance from his home country of Moldova two years ago
\nthe Oaks feature one new cap this week\u2026 Fijian loosehead prop Joji Sikote is among the reserves
\nScott Lawrence has made just two changes to his run-on side, with Leicester tighthead Tonga Kofe getting the nod at No3 and Cory Daniel recalled at openside flanker\u2026 skipper Jason Damm slides from lock to the back of the scrum with Marno Redelinghuys shifted from the flank to the second row<\/p>\n

\"\" Jason Damm<\/a> (Captain)<\/p>\n

(on loss to Georgia) \u201cWe knew the match would be physical and a battle within the forwards. I\u2019m really happy with the effort the fellas put in on our side, but obviously Georgia stepped up in the second half and really pushed us to the limit.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cool but sunny weather is good news for the Eagles, though the heavy Pacific influence in Romania\u2019s backline might also benefit. Curiously the Eagles have left their Top 14 regular Nafi Ma\u2019afu on the bench, which this week is a more conventional 6\/2 split. The Oaks have also opted for six forwards in reserve, with one of them usual top lock Marius Antonescu. While Romania are at home, the Eagles have historically fared well in Bucharest. Expect a very close match with the favorites tag based on current world rankings. USA are slight favorites in Bucharest.<\/p>\n

\"\"
ROMANIA
1 Alexandru Savin, 2 Stefan Buruiana, 3 Thomas Cretu, 4 Nicolaas Immelman, 5 Andrei Mahu (capt.), 6 Cristi Boboc, 7 Cristi Chirica, 8 Adrian Mitu, 9 Alin Conache, 10 Hinckley Vaovasa, 11 Tevita Manumua, 12 Jason Tomane, 13 Mihai Graure, 14 Iliesa Tiqe, 15 Gabriel Pop<\/p>\n

Replacements: 16 Tudor Butnariu, 17 Joji Sikote, 18 Vasile Balan, 19 Marius Antonescu, 20 Dragos Ser, 21 Matthew Tweddle, 22 Gabriel Rupanu, 23 Nicolas Onutu<\/p>\n

\"\"
USA
1 Ezekiel Lindenmuth, 2 Kaleb Geiger, 3 Tonga Kofe, 4 Tevita Naqali, 5 Marno Redelinghuys, 6 Paddy Ryan, 7 Cory Daniel, 8 Jason Damm (capt.), 9 Ruben de Haas, 10 Luke Carty, 11 Rufus McLean, 12 Tavite Lopeti, 13 Dom Besag, 14 Mark O\u2019Keeffe, 15 Toby Fricker<\/p>\n

Replacements: 16 Mike Sosene-Feagai, 17 Payton Telea-Ilalio, 18 Maliu Niuafe, 19 Nafi Ma\u2019afu, 20 Vili Helu, 21 Makeen Alikhan, 22 Mitch Wilson, 23 Michael Baska<\/p>\n

Date: Saturday, November 15
Venue: Stadionul Arcul de Triumf, Bucharest
Kickoff: 17:00 local (07:00 Pacific, 10:00 Eastern)
Weather Forecast: sunny, 50\u00b0F (10\u00b0C), wind SW 6-9 mph (10-15 km\/h)
Broadcasts: Paramount+<\/a> (USA), TVR Sport<\/a> (Romania), DAZN<\/a> (Canada), RugbyPass TV<\/a><\/p>\n

Referee: Sam Grove-White (Scotland)
Assistants: Saba Abulashvili (Georgia) & Peter Martin (Ireland)
TMO: Ben Whitehouse (Wales)<\/p>\n

HEAD-TO-HEAD (10): \"\" USA 7, \"\"\u00a0Romania 3
2024-07-05 \u2013 USA 20, Romania 22 (Chicago)
2023-08-05 \u2013 Romania 17, USA 31 (Bucharest)
2018-11-17 \u2013 Romania 5, USA 31 (Bucharest)
2016-11-13 \u2013 Romania 23, USA 10 (Bucharest)
2014-11-08 \u2013 Romania 17, USA 27 (Bucharest)
2012-11-26 \u2013 Romania 3, USA 34 (Bucharest)
2005-05-29 \u2013 USA 28, Romania 22 (Tokyo)
1999-10-09 \u2013 Romania 27, USA 25 (Dublin)
1988-09-17 \u2013 Romania 7, USA 17 (Moscow)
1924-05-11 \u2013 Romania 0, USA 37 (Paris)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 test campaign comes to a close for the USA when they touch down in Bucharest on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-285382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}