Lelos won and retained the pole

Sun, 24 March, 2002
ENC'2001 Champions, LELOS of Georgia thoroughly outplayed the hosts,
Spain by 34-18 at Madrid University Ground on Sun, 24 March, in the 
penultimate round of this year's ENC, and retained pole-position in
the Classifying tournament for the RWC'2003 European Qualifiers 
Georgia led from kick-off to no-side in 30 degrees heat. LELOS scored 
five well-worked tries. The closest Spain managed to get to visitors 
twice in the second half was four points but the Caucasians scored aptly 
despite being one man short and it was game, set & match
GEO 34   5T, 3c, p
SPN 18   3T, p
SPAIN: 1.Salazar, 2.de la Calle, 3.Zapatero; 4.Abril (R.Ripol 79'), 5.Garcia; 
6.Criado, 7.C.Souto, 8.Tuineau; 9.Hernandez-Gil, 10. Diez (Martinez 58'); 
11.Ventura, 12.Alb.Socias, 13.Enciso CAPT, 14.Velazco; 15.Gutierrez (Macias 21').
NOT used: Mella, Zarzosa, Fortet, Feijoo.

Georgia: 1.Mtiulishvili (Ratianidze 57'), 2.Ak.Guiorgadze,
3.Tsabadze CAPT; 4.Nadiradze, 5.Didebulidze (Uchava 79'); 6.Katsadze, 
7.Labadze, 8.Zedguinidze (Magrakvelidze 65'); 9.Modebadze (Abusseridze 69'), 
10.Jimsheladze; 11.Khekhelashivili, 12.Alania (Iovadze 78'), 13.Zibzibadze, 
14.Urjukashvili; 15.Khamashuridze.  NOT used: Javelidze, Ir.Giorgadze.

REF: de Falco (Italy)
SCORING
 7-0 (5')	Tedo Zibzibadze (T), Paul Jimsheladze (C): 
		Vassil Katsadze penetrated from 3rd phase and flicked to Tedo
 7-5 (10')	Carlos Couto (T)
14-5 (25')	Bessik Khamashuridze (T), Jimsheladze (C): Line-out, several hits, 
		then fullback cut through
Halftime )

14-10 (43')	Ivan Criado-Garachana (T)
17-10 (48')	Jimsheladze (P)
17-13 (52')	Fernando Diez (P)
           	LELOS prop Mevlud Mtiulishvili Sin-binned!
22-13 (62')	Khamashuridze(T): Cheeky tap and race to the line!
27-13 (72')	Katsadze (T): from scrum
27-18 (77')	Souto (T): PK to corner; Line-out, rolling maul
34-18 (80')	Guia Labadze (T), Jimsheladze (C): several phases; 
		kick-out to blind side
Fulltime ))
*** Winner takes ALL, including ANTIM CUP

RWC Classifier:			ENC'2002:

GEO 8,5				ROM 4
ROM 8				GEO 3,5
RUS 5,5				RUS 2,5

So the winner of GEO v ROM on Sat, 6 April TAKES:

END )))