Spain win qualifier in Moldova

In a 2007 Rugby World Cup Qualifier in Chisinãu Spain beat Moldova 40-7. This puts Spain well in charge in Pool A of Europe's Round 3.

It took Spain just three minutes to get on the scoreboard when fly-half Esteban Roqué kicked a penalty goal. Spain went further ahead when Alfonso Mata scored the first try of the match, converted by Roqué who added a penalty goal to make the score 13-0 after 26 minutes. Roqué then added two more penalties to make the score 19-0 at half-time.
 
Moldova scored first in the second half when they mauled the ball over the line for a try by Sergiu Siscanu, converted by Octavian Manole.
 
Any hope that the home side might have had of turning the match around was soon dashed when Spain scored two more tries through scrumhalf Pablo and fullback César, both converted by Roqué. That made it 33-7 with 20 minutes to play. Ignacio Martin got the last try, again improved by the trusty boot of Roqué.
 
Scorers:

For Spain:
Tries: Mata, Feijóo, Sempere, Martin
Cons: Roqué 4
Pens: Roqué 4

For Moldova:
Try: Siscanu
Con: Manole

Teams:

Moldova: 15 B Botezatu, 14 V Gorobgean, 13 Alexei Cotruta, 12 S Motoc, 11 G Bolosiuc, 10 O Manoli, 9 A Chirila, 8 Sergiu Siscanu, 7 V Titica, 6 O Tretelita, 5 A Romanov, 4 O Chitanu,  3 K Kolivac, 2 V Dumitru, 1 B Vasile.
Replacements: 16 A Ochinikiu, 17 R Cancea, 18 M Cuvalas, 19 A Sarkozy, 20 N Caburgan, 21 V Leu, 22 C Lehomschii

Spain: 15 César Sempere, 14 David Mota, 13 Ferrán Velazco (cap), 12 Jaime Nava, 11 Ignacio Martín, 10 Esteban Roqué, 9 Pablo Feijóo, 8 Alfonso Mata, 7 Juan González, 6 Rafael Camacho, 5 César Bernasconi, 4 Andrew Ebbet,  3 Javier Salazar, 2 Diego Zarzosa, 1 Jon Insaust.
Replacements: 16 Mathie Cidre, 17 Manuel Serrano, 18 César Caballero, 19  Iván Criado, 20 Facundo Lavino, 21 Andrei Kovalenco, 22 Javier Canosa
 
Date: 19 November 2005
Kick-off: 13.00 (local time)
Venue: Estadio de La República in Chisinau
Expected weather conditions: Scattered clouds with a chance of snow later, a high of 3°C dropping to  -1°C and a wind from the cold noth of 14 km/h  freshening to 21 km/h 
Referee: Tomáa Tuma (Czech Republic)
Touch judges: Tomáa Breburda, Jaroslav Bednarik (both Czech Republic)