The Fiji Airways Men’s National 7s team has gone down fighting 17-24 to Argentina in the last quarterfinal at the Hong Kong 7s.<\/p>\n
Indiscipline cost the Fiji side the game, after\u00a0Jeremaia Sauturaga was shown a yellow card in the third minute, which Argentina capitalised on, going on to score two\u00a0tries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They scored three tries through Apete Narogo, Joseva Talacolo, and Vuiviawa Naduvalo.<\/p>\n
Argentina’s tries came from doubles to Santiago Alvarez and Marcos Moneta.<\/p>\n
Argentina led 17-7 at halftime.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0red card shown to Akuila Dranivotua in the second half really hurt the side as they struggled to defend with six players in the final two minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They will now play Australia for 5th place at 7.18pm.<\/p>\n
The Fiji team had won all their pool games, thumping Germany 42-5, beating Great Britain 24-10, before edging out France 26-24.<\/p>\n
In other quarterfinals, New Zealand beat France 19-10, South Africa edged Kenya 26-22, while Spain defeated Australia 19-5.<\/p>\n
The Cup semifinals are at 6 tonight, with New Zealand taking on South Africa while Argentina plays Spain at 6.23pm.<\/p>\n
The Cup final is at 11.14pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fiji Airways Men’s National 7s team has gone down fighting 17-24 to Argentina in the last quarterfinal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[199317,111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-386510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-hong-kong-7s-photo-rugby-rugby-7s","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\/386510","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=386510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}