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Romania beat Paraguay 3-2 in a World Cup warm-up match here on Wednesday: Romania 3 (Ilie 4, 57, Hagi 83pen) Paraguay 2 (Cardoso 27, Acuna 64)

Weather: hot
Pitch: good
Referee: Attila Juhos (Hun)
Attendance: 10,000

Yellow cards:

Romania – Petrescu, Gheorghe Popescu, Paraguay – Benitez, Ramirez

Romania made hard work of beating Paraguay 3-2 in a World Cup warm-up match here on Wednesday. Romanian striker Adrian Ilie opened the scoring after four minutes following a defensive error before Jose Cardoso equalized in the 27^th minute on another defensive error, this time by Cristian Dulca.

Gheorghe Hagi and Roberto Acuna both scored before Hagi, in fine form throughout the match, hit the winner from the spot in the 83^rd minute

Teams

Romania: Stelea – Petrescu, Dulca, Filipescu, Munteanu – Gheorghe Popescu, Hagi (Ciubotariu 89), Gabriel Popescu (Stinga 62), Galca (Dumitrescu 83) – Ilie (Craioveanu 70), Moldovan (Lacatus 62)

Paraguay: Chilavert (Diaz 60) – Arce, Rivarola (Caniza 60), Sarabia, Gamarra – Acuna, Enciso, Paredes (Morales 75), Benitez – Ramirez (Campos 85), Cardoso (Brizuela 60)