{"id":55435,"date":"2025-08-09T13:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55435\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T13:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:12:10","slug":"rewa-thrash-defending-champs-lautoka-fbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55435\/","title":{"rendered":"Rewa thrash defending champs Lautoka \u2013 FBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Rewa-vs-Lautoka-BOG.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A new winner will be crowned in this year\u2019s Extra Battle of the Giants tournament after defending champions Lautoka suffered a brutal 6-0 defeat against Rewa.<\/p>\n<p>Lautoka played with only 10 men for almost the entire match after Kishan Sami was red-carded in the 13th minute for obstructing a Rewa attacker just outside the goalmouth.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the red card, Solomon Islander John Orobulu opened the scoring to give Rewa the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Early in the second half, captain Setareki Hughes delivered his individual brilliance, scoring the second goal with a powerful shot in a one-on-one situation against the Lautoka goalkeeper.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes was not done yet, and with Rewa dominating possession and looking composed, he soon added his second goal of the match after a chance created by his teammates.<\/p>\n<p>A short time later, Orobulu scored his second goal as well, extending the lead to 4-0.<\/p>\n<p>Both Hughes and Orobulu were then substituted and replaced by Epeli Valevou and Asivorisi Rabo.<\/p>\n<p>Josaia Sela scored the fifth goal, giving his team a huge advantage.<\/p>\n<p>The final goal of the day came from Semi Matalau, who provided a beautiful finish after an assist from a teammate, sealing the 6-0 win for Rewa.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"viti-plus-link-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.viti.plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stream the best of Fiji on VITI+.  Anytime.  Anywhere.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new winner will be crowned in this year\u2019s Extra Battle of the Giants tournament after defending champions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-55435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}