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Late changes for Portugal

António Aguilar: Comes in on the wing as a late change

Portugal have been forced to make changes to the initial team announced for their clash with Romania on Tuesday.

Tomas Morais had initially selected his side on Sunday but a day later has been forced into some fine tuning due to injury and illness.

António Aguilar has replaced David Mateus at number 14. Whilst in other positional changes David Penalva is now wearing number four, swapping sides with Gonçalo Uva now at number five.

Juan Manuel Muré will now wear number 17, João Correia will wear 16, Paulo Murinello 18 and Salvador Palha will pull on the number 19 jersey.

Portugal (revised): 15 Pedro Leal, 14 António Aguilar, 13 Federico Sousa, 12 Diogo Mateus, 11 Miguel Portela, 10 Duarte Cardoso Pinto, 9 José Pinto, 8 Tiago Girão, 7 João Uva, 6 Diogo Coutinho, 5 Gonçalo Uva, 4 David Penalva, 3 Ruben Spachuck, 2 Joaquim Ferreira (c), 1 Rui Cordeiro.
Replacements: 16 João Correia, 17 Juan Manuel Muré, 18 Paulo Murinello, 19 Salvador Palha, 20 Luis Pissarra, 21 Gonçalo Malheiro, 22 Pedro Carvalho.

Date: Tuesday, 25 September
Venue: Le Stade, Toulouse
Kick-off: 20:00 (19:00 BST, 18:00 GMT)
Referee: Paul Honiss
Touch judges: Simon McDowell, Carlo Damasco
Television match official: Kelvin Deaker
Assessor: Tappe Henning

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