The Fiji Airways Men\u2019s National 7s side defeated Great Britain 21-17 in the HSBC SVNS Dubai 7s to keep their cup contention alive.<\/p>\n
The match was intense as both teams hunted for a win after losing their opening matches.<\/p>\n
Great Britain drew first blood with an unconverted try to Matt Davidson, but Fiji responded a few minutes later through Vuiviwa Naduvalo, with Terio Tamani converting.<\/p>\n
Fiji led Great Britain 7-5 at halftime.<\/p>\n
Great Britain regained composure in the second half and managed to score another try through Damien Hoyland to put them in a 12-7 lead.<\/p>\n
Fiji banded together and put pressure on Great Britain, who committed a number of mistakes.<\/p>\n
Alusio Vakadranu was in impressive form, scoring back-to-back tries to give Fiji the win.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Fiji lost to South Africa 24-21 in their first match, and they will now turn their focus to New Zealand, who they will play at 5.19am today.<\/p>\n
The men\u2019s cup semi-finals will start at 10.22 tonight, and the final will begin at 2.43am tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Live Updates:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kick off: Great Britain<\/p>\n
2′ Try to GB. Matt Davidson. FJ 0-5 GB<\/p>\n
4′ Try to Fiji. Vuiviawa Naduvalo. FJ 7-5 GB<\/p>\n
HT: FJ 7-5 GB<\/p>\n
Second half: Kick off: Fiji<\/p>\n
9′ Try to GB. Damien Hoyland. FJ 7-12 GB<\/p>\n
12′ Try to Fiji. Alusio Vakadranu. FJ 14-12 GB<\/p>\n
13′ Try to Fiji. Alusio Vakadranu. FJ 21-12 GB<\/p>\n
14′ Try to GB. Marcus Kershaw. FJ 21-17 GB<\/p>\n
FT: FJ 21-17 GB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fiji Airways Men\u2019s National 7s side defeated Great Britain 21-17 in the HSBC SVNS Dubai 7s to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,110564,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-171065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-photo-fiji-rugby","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171065","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=171065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}