In the dying moments Williams danced over for his second of the night.Wales: Tries S Williams 2, Phillips, Popham, Brew, G Thomas Conversions Henson 6; Penalties Henson 4. A Romanian scrum was disrupted inside their own 22 and after Wales had won quick turnover ball Williams was put away to touch down in the corner.Romania responded almost immediately with a try of their own, prop Petru Balan touching down, but it was the hosts who finished the half stronger thanks to the boot of Henson and a try through Leeds No 8 Alix Popham.Brew added to the visitors' misery after the break, bursting through from an inside pass from Nicky Robinson and it came as little surprise when Gavin Thomas was next over the line as the Romanians lost all their shape. Wales finally ended their 11-game losing streak with victory over a poor Romanian side here in Wrexham last night. Gavin Henson enjoyed a 100 per cent record with the boot, kicking 24 points as an experimental side ran in six tries to lift some of the gloom in the Principality. Whether the national coach Steve Hansen will learn anything from the game is doubtful because of the standard of the opposition, but a number of players - Henson among them - will certainly have enhanced their World Cup claims.Hansen had selected very much a young, makeshift side for the match, including four new caps - wing Nathan Brew, scrum-half Michael Phillips, prop Paul James and lock Brent Cockbain.In a frenetic opening it was Shane Williams who gave his side the perfect start with two minutes on the clock. The Munster prop injured a calf in training yesterday and will be replaced at tight head by Leinster's Reggie Corrigan.Scotland have restored Gregor Townsend to outside-half for Saturday's match with Wales in Cardiff in a side showing 11 changes from the one who beat Italy five days ago.SCOTLAND (v Wales, Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, Saturday): G Metcalfe; R Kerr, A Craig, B Laney, S Danielli; G Townsend, G Beveridge; J Petrie, A Mower, M Leslie, S Grimes, S Murray (capt), B Douglas, G Bulloch, G Kerr. Hugo Viana, another high-quality import who has yet to give value for money, was not noticeably an improvement and eventually Robson was forced to replace him with the wayward talent from Reunion.It was a tribute to the high degree of organisation Matth? has instilled in the Serbian champions that the match was more than half an hour old before Ivica Kralj was forced to make a decisive save; blocking a fearsome drive from Nolberto Solano. For the first time since moving from Paris St-Germain for a £10m fee he has never fully justified Laurent Robert found himself dropped by Robson, who considers him perhaps the most awkward player he has had to deal with in four decades of management.Despite his ability, a miserably indifferent display against Manchester United was something the Newcastle manager could no longer tolerate.

The penalties taken and missed by Sunderland and Norwich in First Division Play-off finals were heavy with pressure and financial implication but, perhaps more so, were these.In normal time, a Serbian breakthrough was never that far away and arrived via a back-heel deep in the Partizan half from Jonathan Woodgate. It surrendered possession which was quickly fed to Albert Nadj, who slipped the ball into the area where his captain, Sasa Ilic was lurking. His square pass to Iliev presented the striker with an empty net he did not spurn.Matth? had said before kick-off that with Newcastle a goal ahead after the first leg, this tie would be won mentally and from that moment on Partizan believed in themselves in a way Newcastle simply did not.Even before Partizan's opener, St James' did not appear a happy ground. Ivica Iliev, who had scored the vital equaliser, aped the Newcastle captain by driving his deep into the crowd, but Milivoje Cirkovic did not. Both were achieved via a penalty shoot-out.Newcastle are famously bad at penalties and when Shearer drove the first of the evening high into the Gallowgate End, the Toon Army, not to mention the club's array of accountants, would have feared the worst.

Newcastle missed their first three, while Partizan squandered two of their opening three kicks.In tennis terms, Partizan had two match points. Matth? pointed out that over the two games, Partizan had the bulk of the chances, although had Jermaine Jenas not missed a header from five yards or Alan Shearer seen Ivica Kralj save with an outstretched leg well into stoppage time, it would not have mattered.Before the first leg he had declared that taking Partizan into the Champions' League would as great an achievement as the night in 1986 when Red Star Belgrade overcame Terry Venables' Barcelona to win the European Cup. What they required and displayed were calmness and an ability to take their chances. We are distraught; don't come to my house tonight for a drink."He has suffered defeat in a more painful penalty contest, in a World Cup semi-final 13 years ago, but unlike that reverse in Turin, this one will have dreadful financial consequences for a club already heavily in debt.Before this enthralling, gut- wrenching match kicked off, Robson's opposite number, Lothar Matth?, who by a cool irony was part of the German side which eliminated England in the Stadio delle Alpi, said that his side required "a miracle" to qualify, having lost the first leg in Belgrade This they did not. Sir Bobby Robson's 200th game in charge of Newcastle United was a torment rather than a triumph, finishing with defeat in a penalty shoot out which will cost his club between £10-15m and a place in the Champions' League. "I'm not thinking about money," he said, his voice hoarse and weary "I'm thinking about the disappointment. Substitutes not used: Alpay, Hitzlsperger, Postma (gk), Kachloul.Referee: M Dean (The Wirral) 5.. Substitutes not used: Keown, Taylor (gk), Edu.Aston Villa (4-5-1): Sorensen 6; Delaney 4, Mellberg 7, Johnsen 6, Samuel 6; De La Cruz 4, Hendrie 6, Kinsella 5 (Vassell 5, 60), Barry 5, Whittingham 7; Angel 6.