{"id":172022,"date":"2025-12-07T12:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/172022\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T12:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:40:07","slug":"fiji-7s-sets-for-crucial-cape-town-7s-semi-final-against-argentina-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/172022\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji 7s sets for crucial Cape Town 7s semi final against Argentina tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fiji Airways Men\u2019s 7s team will take the field tonight in the second semi-final of the Cape Town 7s, facing Argentina in what is expected to be a thrilling showdown.<\/p>\n<p>They will meet at 10.44 tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Fiji currently sits third in the overall series standings, while Argentina is in eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the rankings gap, Argentina has been a tough opponent in recent tournaments making tonight\u2019s clash crucial for Fiji\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In the other semi-final, hosts South Africa will face fourth-placed France in another expected blockbuster at 10.22 tonight in the first semi final.<\/p>\n<p>To book a spot in the final and keep their title hopes alive, Fiji will need to tighten their discipline, eliminate basic errors, and stay composed under pressure.<\/p>\n<p>The final will begin at 2.43am tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Fijiana 7s will face Canada in the fifth place at 8 tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fiji Airways Men\u2019s 7s team will take the field tonight in the second semi-final of the Cape&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,111130,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-172022","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-rugby-7s","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172022","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=172022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}