Match Centre: Amlin Challenge Cup
Bath Rugby
53 - 8
Bucharest Wolves
19th January 2013
14:15
Recreation Ground
Amlin Challenge Cup
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Standings
| 1 | (1) | Bath Rugby | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 245 | 79 | 36 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 29 |
| 3 | (3) | Bucharest Wolves | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 121 | 215 | 14 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
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Sam Vesty
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17 Jan 2013, 07:01 pm
By Marc Heywood
Bath still have business to do
Bath Rugby have been the stand-out team of the tournament - banking 24 out of a possible 25 points so far - and will want to keep the points coming ahead of their home tie in the quarter-finals.
The target is to finish as the highest ranked team and so avoid any of the three Heineken Cup Pool runners-up qualifying for the Amlin knock-out stages.
Bath certainly know what it takes to win European titles - they won the Heineken Cup in 1998 and the Amlin Challenge Cup in 2008 - and a repeat five years on would see them atomatically qualify for next season's Heineken Cup.
They started as they meant to go on with a 40-17 win at Bucharest Wolves - Sam Vesty among the try scorers and supplying half their points total - and something similar is how they intend to finish the group stages.
Match Facts
- Bath have won 22 of their last 23 Amlin Challenge Cup games, their only loss in this period being the 2007 final against ASM Clermont Auvergne.
- At home, the English club have a 100% record in the tournament, winning all 19 games they have played on their own patch.
- Bucharest have won just one of their last 13 away games in this tournament, a 26-13 victory over Crociati in January 2012.
- Wolves have never beaten an English club in the Amlin Challenge Cup, only picking up wins against French and Italian opposition.
Previous Meetings
| Date |
Home |
Score |
Away |
Att |
| 19/1/13 |
Bath Rugby |
53 - 8 |
Bucharest Wolves |
9,873 |
| 13/10/12 |
Bucharest Wolves |
17 - 40 |
Bath Rugby |
1,500 |
Match Officials
- Referee Laurent Cardona (France)
- Assistant Referee Salam Attalah (France)
- Assistant Referee Mourad Zitouni (France)
- Fourth Official Peter Huckle (England)
- Assessor Michael Carroll (Ireland)