Daniel Niculae
Ciprian Marica
Florentin PetreBucuresti, Romania (AP) - Romania beat Russia 3-0 in an international friendly on Wednesday. Ciprian Marica gave Romania a 1-0 lead in the 45th minute at Ghencea stadium when the forward drove a left-foot shot past goalkeeper Igor Akinfeyev.Daniel Niculae doubled the lead in the 62nd with a 16-meter shot after taking a pass from Marius Niculae, who headed the ball past Akinfeyev from six meters in the 75th to make it 3-0.Romania attacked from the outset and had several shots at goal. The first chance came from Florentin Petre in the 22nd minute before Russia counterattacked and Vladimir Bystrov went close.Russia coach Guus Hiddink said his team had been "naive" and "foolish" in defense. He added that the pace of Romania's game was faster because more of its players are at big European clubs.Striker Adrian Mutu, who had been injured, captain Cristian and Marica were all replaced in the second half for Romania.The match was one of four friendlies for Russia ahead of the June 7-29 European Championship. Romania has one further warm-up match, against Montenegro.Lineups:Romania: Marius Popa (Razvan Stanca, 89), Cosmin Contra, Razvan Rat (Laszlo Sepsi, 87), Gabriel Tamas (Ovidiu Petre, 35), Cristian Chivu (Daniel Niculae, 46), Mirel Radoi, Florentin Petre (Banel Nicolita, 62), Ciprian Marica (Marius Niculae, 46), Adrian Mutu (Nicolae Dica, 46) , Razvan Cocis (Marian Aliuta, 85), Dorin Goian.Russia: Igor Akinfeyev, Sergei Ignashevich, Alexei Berezutskiy, Vasily Berezutskiy (Dmitry Sychev, 65), Alexander Anyukov, Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (Dmitry Torbinsky, 61 ), Yuri Zhirkov, Igor Semshov, Vladimir Bystrov, Roman Shirokov, Roman Adamov (Roman Pavlyechenko, 59).
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