The Fiji Airways Men\u2019s National 7s side is through to the semi-finals of the HSBC SVNS Cape Town 7s after defeating New Zealand 35-5 this morning, and they will face Argentina at 10.44 tonight.<\/p>\n
Fiji scored three unanswered tries in the first half, with Vuiviwa Naduvalo scoring twice and Pilipo Bukayaro scoring once to lead 21-0 at halftime.<\/p>\n
Discipline cost Fiji as Ilikimi Vunaki was shown a yellow card.<\/p>\n
New Zealand managed to score their first try through Jayden Keelan, but Fiji responded with a try from Terio Veilawa to extend their lead to 28-5.<\/p>\n
Veilawa scored another try with a few seconds left to play to end New Zealand\u2019s chance of progressing.<\/p>\n
Fiji lost to South Africa 24-21 in their first pool match, and they defeated Great Britain 21-17 in their second match.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, France will meet South Africa at 10.22 tonight in the first semi final.<\/p>\n
In other results, Spain defeated Argentina 31-26, and France beat Australia 17-5.<\/p>\n
The final will begin at 2.43am tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Live Updates:<\/p>\n
Kick-off: Fiji<\/p>\n
2′ Try to Fiji. Vuiviawa Naduvalo. FJ 7-0 NZ<\/p>\n
5′ Try to Fiji. Vuiviawa Naduvalo. FJ 14-0 NZ<\/p>\n
7′ Try to Fiji. Pilipo Bukayaro. FJ 21-0 NZ<\/p>\n
HT: FJ 21-0 NZ<\/p>\n
Second half Kick off: NZ<\/p>\n
2′ Discipline has costed Fiji with Ilikimi Vunaki shown a yellow card, FJ 21-0 NZ<\/p>\n
4′ Try to NZ. Jayden Keelan. FJ 21-5 NZ<\/p>\n
5′ Try to Fiji. Terio Veilawa. FJ 28-5 NZ<\/p>\n
6′ Try to Fiji. Terio Veilawa. FJ 35-5 NZ<\/p>\n
FT: FJ 35-5 NZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fiji Airways Men\u2019s National 7s side is through to the semi-finals of the HSBC SVNS Cape Town…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[110971,111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-171741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-fiji-to-face-argentina-at-10-44-tonight-in-second-cup-semi-final","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171741","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=171741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}