The Fiji Airways Men’s National 7s team have outplayed Argentina 26-19 in their first pool game to keep their hopes of defending their Dubai 7s title alive.<\/p>\n
Vuiviwa Naduvalo scored a double with the other tries from skipper Jeremaia Matana and George Bose with the conversions by Bose and Waisea Nacuqu.<\/p>\n
Argentina scored first through Santino Zangara and Marcos Moneta to give them an early lead before Fiji struck back through Naduvalo and Matana and then another one from Naduvalo.<\/p>\n
Fiji led 19-12 at the break.<\/p>\n
In the second half Bose extended Fiji’s lead before Sebastian Dubuc got the Argentinians back within reach.<\/p>\n
Argentina received a scrum with a few seconds to go but the Fiji defence was able to shut down any hopes they had of making it go to extra time with a draw.<\/p>\n
Fiji plays South Africa at 12.16am tomorrow and France at 4.12am tomorrow as well.<\/p>\n
The men\u2019s semifinals will begin at 10.06pm tomorrow, with the final set for 4.11am Monday.<\/p>\n
In other games, New Zealand beat Great Britain 21-14 while Australia held off Spain 14-7.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Fijiana 7s won their first game against the USA 19-7, their next game is at 9.59pm before they play New Zealand at 1.27am tomorrow.<\/p>\n
The women\u2019s semifinals begin at 9.12pm tomorrow, with the final scheduled for 3.35am Monday.<\/p>\n
LIVE UPDATE REPORT<\/p>\n
Knock on by Argentina, Fiji boots it out!! \n<\/p>\n
Knock on by Fiji, can Argentina score from this? \n<\/p>\n
14″ Fiji get the throw in after Argentina kick off \n<\/p>\n
Sebastian Dubuc with the try \n<\/p>\n
TRY!! \n<\/p>\n
Fiji down to 6 men<\/p>\n
Yellow Card to Vakadranu \n<\/p>\n
12″Talacolo loses the ball and Argentina back on the attack \n<\/p>\n
ARG 12-26 FIJ \n<\/p>\n
George Bose eventually gets the try but it was a team effort as Fiji stretch the Argentina defence \n<\/p>\n
8″ Fiji opt for touch from the penalty \n<\/p>\n
HALF TIME ARG 12-17 FIJ<\/p>\n
Another one for Naduvalo!! \n<\/p>\n
Jeremaia Matana scores after a few slick passes from Fiji \n<\/p>\n
ARG 12-7 FIJ<\/p>\n
Vuviwa Naduvalo breaks a couple of tackles to get Fiji back in the game<\/p>\n
ARG 12-0 FIJ<\/p>\n
Marcos Moneta gets the second for Argentina \n<\/p>\n
ARG 7-0 FIJ \n<\/p>\n
Santigo Zangara with the try after missed tackles from Fiji \n<\/p>\n
1″ Argentina get a penalty, Fiji not releasing<\/p>\n
Nacuqu to kick off<\/p>\n
Fiji with their fluorescent alternate jersey <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fiji Airways Men’s National 7s team have outplayed Argentina 26-19 in their first pool game to keep…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[105180,2566,111,43,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-159636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-7s","9":"tag-fiji","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}