The Fiji Airways Men’s National 7s side finished in fourth place at the Valladolid 7s in Spain, following their 28-17 loss to Argentina.<\/p>\n
The Los Pumas capitalise on Fiji’s mistakes and use the width of the field to stretch the defence.<\/p>\n
Fiji started well with a try to Apete Narogo in the first few seconds of the first half to put them in a 7-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Argentina responded a minute later through Marcos Moneta, who levelled the score at 7-all.<\/p>\n
They scored another two tries to Luciano Gonzalez and Pedro De Haro to put them in a 21-7 lead.<\/p>\n
Fiji’s Isaia Rugu crossed over the tryline in the sixth minute to close the gap to a 12-21.<\/p>\n
Argentina led Fiji 21-12 at halftime.<\/p>\n
The second half saw both teams score a try each, with Jeremaia Matana scoring for Fiji, while Moneta scored his second and sealed the Pumas’ win.<\/p>\n
In other results, Uruguay beat Great Britain 19-17 in the 11th-place playoff, the USA defeated Germany 28-21 in the 9th-place playoff, France beat Kenya 14-5 in the 7th-place playoff, and New Zealand beat Spain 22-12 in the 5th-place playoff.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Australia will face South Africa at 2.26am today in the cup final.<\/p>\n
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Updates<\/p>\n
Kick off: Argentina<\/p>\n
0’Try to Fiji. Apete Narogo. FJ 7-0 ARG<\/p>\n
2′ Try to Argentina. Marcos Moneta. FJ 7-7 ARG<\/p>\n
3′\u00a0Try to Argentina.\u00a0Luciano Gonzalez. FJ 7-14 ARG<\/p>\n
5′\u00a0Try to Argentina.\u00a0Pedro De Haro. FJ 7-21 ARG<\/p>\n
6′ Try to Fiji.\u00a0Isaia Rugu. FJ 12-21 ARG<\/p>\n
HT:\u00a0FJ 12-21 ARG<\/p>\n
2ND HALF.<\/p>\n
Kick off: Fiji<\/p>\n
9′ Try to Fiji. Jeremaia Matana. FJ 17-21 ARG<\/p>\n
11′ Try to Argentina. Marcos Moneta. FJ 17-28 ARG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fiji Airways Men’s National 7s side finished in fourth place at the Valladolid 7s in Spain, following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,231088,213],"class_list":["post-454802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-photo-rugby-7s-valladolid-7s","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454802","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=454802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}