Lelos in big win over Lobos

Georgia beat Portugal 31-3 in the Mikheil Meskhi Stadium in Vake on Saturday, to move to the top of the European Nations Cup, the "Six Nations B". They have the same number of points as Russia but have a better points' difference.

Standings, with matches played match points and points' difference

1 Georgia 5 - 13, 131
2 Russia 5 - 13, 80
3 Spain 6 - 12, 23
4 Romania 5 - 11, 71
5 Portugal 5 - 9, -28
6 Czech Republic 6 - 6, -277

Georgia play Romania this weekend.

Georgia scored five tries to nil in this convincing win on a cold but fine day. Both sides had much weakened teams because the match had had to be twice rescheduled because of unrest in Georgia and some players were not released by their clubs.

Portugal had just five players who went to the 2007 World Cup.

The Lelos won the game up front as their forwards dominated.

Scorers:

For Georgia:
Tries:  Katcharava, Khamashuridze, Dadunashvili, Guigauri, Bassilaia;
Cons:  Qiassashvili, Kvirikashvili 2

For Portugal:
Pen:  Cabral

Teams:

Georgia:  15 Irakli Qiassashvili, 14 Irakli Chkhikvadze, 13 David Katcharava, 12 Rezo Guigauri, 11 Bessik Khamashuridze; 10 Meko Kvirikashvili, 9 Irakli Abusseridze (captain), 8 Dimitri Bassilaia, 7 Rati Urushadze, 6 Shalva Sutiashvili, 5 Kakha Uchava, 4 David Datunashvili, 3 David Kubriashvili, 2 Levan Dadunashvili, 1 Goderdzi Shvelidze
Replacements:  16 Irakli Natriashvili, 17 Anton Peikrishvili, 18 George Chkhaidze, 19 Zviad Maissuradze, 20 Bidzina Samkharadze, 21 Lasha Malaghuradze, 22 Otar Barkalaia

Portugal:  15Vasco Gaspar, 14 Aderito Esteves, 13 Hugo Melo, 12 Francisco Mira, 11 Gonçalo Foro; 10 Pedro Cabral, 9 Magalhaes, 8 Tiago Girão, 7 Antonio Duarte, 6 Juan Severino, 5 Sebastião Cunha, 4 Eduardo Acosta, 3 Juan Murré, 2 João Correia (captain), 1 Rodrigo Aguiar
Replavcements:  16 Gustavo Duarte, 17 Diogo Fialho, 18 Manuel Sommer Ribeiro, 19 Francisco Fragateiro, 20 Lourenço Kadosh , 21 Bernardo Duarte, 22 Diogo Miranda

Referee:  Giulio De Santis (Italy)
Touch judges:  Roberto Orlandini (Italy), Gianluca Bonacci (Italy)