Georgia Vs Portugal: Both to play REC 23 Final before RWC 2023

Posted by World Wide Tickets And Hospitality on March 9th, 2023

Rugby World Cup 2023 Pool C teams Portugal and Georgia will see in the rugby Europe men’s competition final after they safely passed their semi-finals at the weekend. On Saturday in the Estadio do Restelo in Lisbon, Portugal beat Spain by 27-10. Spain took the prime through a penalty by their stand-off Gonzalo Vinuesa and things got even improved for them when they went 10-0 ahead.

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Their first attempt came in the 18th minute when second-row Joshua Peters went over from short range and Vinuesa transformed. It took Portugal until just before the half-hour to get on the scoreboard, centre Rodrigo Mara going obvious for a try with scrum-half Samuel Marques converting. Spain led at half-time, but when they had a guy in the sin bin Marques kicked a penalty to make it 10-10.

Portugal themselves then lost a man to a yellow card, but Marques’ next penalty made it 13-10. With 12 minutes to go the game was still in equilibrium until Portugal counted a converted try. The try came from a strong advancing drive, replacement prop Duarte Diniz scoring it. And with nine minutes to go, Marques, later called Player of the Match, scored a conversion and a drawback to take his private tally to 17 points.

Portugal this form will help them in RWC 2023

Patrice Lagisquet, the Portugal Rugby World Cup side head coach, said, I am happy because it is a win, but I don’t know if we earned to win by 17 points because, in the first half, we made too many mistakes. We will have to be a lot well in the final to have a gamble against Georgia. Spain head coach Santiago Santos said, I am upset, in the first half we played quite well, but in the second half Portugal positioned much better.

We gave away control in the second half while our discipline was not good and that was the alteration. On Sunday in the Avchala Stadium in Tbilisi, Georgia has beaten Romania by 31-7. Georgia also won the Antrim Cup which is played between these two states. A penalty by stand-off Tedo Abzhandadze put Georgia 3-0 up early on. By half-time, they had stretched that lead to 17-0. Rugby fans can buy Portugal Rugby World Cup Tickets at exclusively discounted prices.

The first try came when scrum-half Vasil Lobzhanidze set up captain Merab Sharikadze to go over. It was transformed. Aleksandre Todua, the winger, counted the second try to give Georgia the relaxed lead after 40 minutes. The first points in the second half came in the 54th minute when they were granted a penalty try. Romania lost a man to the sin bin at the same time, but on the hour mark they counted a try while shorthanded.

Georgia looking to last grand game before Rugby World Cup 2023

Marian-Eugen Capatina, the extra hooker, counted it while full-back Ionel Melinte converted. Akaki Tabutsadze, the winger, curved things off with a converted try late on for Georgia. Sharikadze was named player of the match and Georgia RWC team head coach Levan Maisashvili said, we played well, we precise the game. The final is the final, it is a one-off game and we’ll have to play at our finest.

Eugen Apjok, the Romania head coach, said, congratulations to Georgia on the win, but my boys gave me all. We need to come back tougher and be focused for the last game. The bronze final and then the final will take place at the Estadio Nuevo Vivero in Badajoz, Spain, on March 19.

Get to identify Georgia Rugby World Cup side's best player Beka Gorgadze

Mamuka Gorgodze is the most famed RWC player to come out of Georgia, but there’s a new kid on the block who could see his renowned nickname tweaked to ‘Gorgadzilla’. The different vowel in Beka Gorgadze’s surname is not the only zone where the two players contrast. We’ll get onto the younger man’s skill set later but they are both talismanic statistics on the field.

Four years ago, Gorgadze, then just 19, was part of the Georgia Rugby World Cup training group alongside Gorgodze, and while he didn’t make the final cut for the competition in England, he did get to play in three Tests alongside his adult hero over the next two years. I played eight, he was seven, and Gorgadze speaks. It was a huge honour for me to study next to him and I learnt a lot.

Back in 2015, the older man was helpful in Georgia making history in mechanically qualifying for the next Rugby World Cup by finishing third in the pool. This year, while Gorgodze has made a wonderful return to the squad for the World Cup, his near-namesake will also be an important figure as the ‘Lelos’ strive to do the same in Japan. The 23-year-old doesn’t own the same raw power as Gorgodze, but he stands out as a front-runner.

He’s a changed type of RWC player to Mamuka

There’s no hesitation Beka has certain qualities that endear him to players following him his character, his skill-set, says Georgia Rugby World Cup side coach Milton Haig. He’s a clever player and a very bright man. He has great humility and doesn’t let success cloud who he is. If you look at his charm, he’s the type of guy you can shape teams around. He’s a different type of player from Mamuka.

I’m certain Mamuka won’t mind me saying Beka has more abilities and is the type of guy we think would make it in Super Rugby. He’s not as big and rough and doesn’t have the same out-and-out strength as Mamuka, but he’s a clever player and certainly has those leadership qualities. Haig also pays honour to Gorgadze for putting in such strong shows last season after a year-long injury lack.

Injuries

He needed three processes after tearing tendons in his ankle in May 2017 but returned to start six of Georgia’s eight Tests in 2018-19 and Haig defines his comeback as phenomenal. It was another injury that saw Gorgadze find his niche at No 8. He followed his friend in swapping the round ball for the oval one when he was seven after an age-range change meant he could no stretch play in the same football side as his friends.

After times at fly-half and centre for his local club Kharebi in the city of Rustavi, he moved to the front row and played there until his mid-teens, when a back problem arose. I was trying to prop in the scrum and couldn’t as I’d hurt my back, recalls Gorgadze, who pays honour to the influence of his mother after his father died in 2000. I didn’t need an operation but I had to do special movements for my back and was put on a diet to lose 6kg nearly a stone.

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