GEO - 2T: both pushover, from rolling mauls stemming from
close-in line-outs (Kopaliani, Ghvaberidze); 2C:
Urjukashvili, Kvinikhidze

POR - T: Aguilar; C, 3P, DG: Malheiro

 SIN BINS:  36' Murinello, 38' Maissuradze, 74' Mtchedlishvili

NO BLOOD BINS!

POR bench: 16 Mota, 17 Sarmento, 18 Sequeira, 19 S Cunha,
20 J Uva, 21 Leal, 22 Moriera

SUBS: Geo -  60' 5/18,  62' 3/17,  77' 2/16
      Por -  55' 7/21,  64' 2/17

Scoring Sequence (GEO first): 0-3 (11') 0-10 (19) 7-10 (27)
7-13 (41) HT (42) 7-16 (45) 14-16 (65) 14-19 (85 DG) FT (86)

Ground soft (overnight rain). Sunny in the first half and
cool & windy afterwards

Some 15 thousand spectators

Young GEO pack outmuscled POR both in tight & loose

GEO unwisely played pick&drive from their half

POR disrupted the game cinically at times but Italian ref
showed sympathy to their kins

* WHEN this will end within FIRA AER fold?

POR waited for mistakes and cashed on them. All their PKs
were straight forward

Once (69') their kicker advanecd the spot by 5m, ref played blind man but the ball skewed to a tremendous applause

All in all, LOBOS won deservedly. There were more streetwise. As for LELOS, they completely neglected tactical kicking and tried to keep the ball in hand which they did NOT throughout the RWC 2003. They showed some promise but could well finish only FOURTH this year

Teams for GEO v POR

>> Georgia (* new cap)

15 Bessik Khamashuridze, 11 Irakli Machkhaneli, 14 Makho Urjukashvili; 13 Tedo Zibzibadze, 12 Kakha Alania, 10 Boba Kvinikhidze; 9 Bidzina Samkharadze* /

1 David Khinchaguishvili, 2 Levan Ghvaberidze*, 3 Avtandil Kopaliani; 4 Ilia Zedguinidze CAPT, 5 Mamuka Gorgodze; 6 Zviad Maissuradze*, 7 Rati Urushadze, 8 Besso Udessiani -

(Bench) 22 Lexo Gugava*, 21 Nono Andghuladze, 20 Irakli Modebadze / 16 George Kutarashvili*, 17 Michael Sujashvili*,
18 Zurab Mtchedlishvili, 19 Rezo Belkania*

Manager: Michael Burdzgla; Coaches: Paata Narimanashvili, Malkhaz Tcheishvili & David Chavleishvili

>> Portugal

15 Goncalo Malheiro, 14 Antonio Aguilar, 11 David Matues; 12 Frederico Sousa, 13 Diogo Mateus, 10 Filipe Grenho; 9 Luis Pissarra CAPT /

1 Rui Cordeiro, 2 Paulo Santos, 3 Joaquim Ferreira; 5 Marcello Dorey, 4 Lourenco Andrade; 6 Vasco Uva, 7 Paulo Murinello, 8 Antonio Cunha -

(Bench; two to be omitted) Francisco Morreira, Joao Uva, Sebastiao Cunha, Pedro Leal, Joao-Abreu Lima, Antonio Sarmento, Jose-Carlos Sequeira, Bernardo Mota, Paulo Goncalves

Coaches: Tomaz Moraiz & Luis Claro

>> Ref: Antonio Lombardi; TJs: Alessandro Milan & Elio Peri (Italy)

>> Kick-Off: Sun, 15 Feb; 16:00 GEO = 12:00 GMT