They did play together before for Romania U20. It's not much since our U20 team has about 7 days of training during a year but it's something and they looked good together.Italy go almost full strength against Romania. Romania finally select lots of their first choice players in position, with the exception of the halfbacks, with a combined age of 41, who have never played together before. Talk about a baptism of fire.
Out of all our younger players those two are the ones with the most potential. Besides pure skill I think both are hard-working, have very good mental and a drive to perform.
The early red card ruined the match, the scoreboard looks bad but I've seen a few signs of improvement although the bar was set really low tbh.
Moreover, we had a few injuries (Mureșan, the young flyhalf, injury worries me the worst; he might miss the RWC) + Moțoc will be suspended and he will be a big loss for us.
Despite all the hate against Apjok and the selection, I would wait for the RWC to end before I talk about our staff. Maybe something can still be salvaged and we won't embarrass ourselves.