The Fiji Airways Men’s National 7s team are out of the Dubai 7s despite beating France 24-12 in their last pool match.
Fiji had to beat France by a margin of 18 points but a combination of poor discipline and lack of urgency proved costly for the side.
France raced on to a 14-0 lead before Waisea Nacuqu scored to half the deficit.
France led 14-7 at the break.
Jerry Tuwai and Alasio Naduva scored two more tries for Fiji in the second half but it was not enough to save them from elimination.
Sevuloni Mocenacagi was shown a yellow card in the first half.
They were earlier beaten 24-21 by Argentina in their second pool match.
It's full time in Fiji's final pool match, and for the first ever they are not through to the Cup quarter-finals (losing on points difference to Argentina and France)#HSBC7s pic.twitter.com/Jp8Q6ok1E3
— World Rugby Sevens (@WorldRugby7s) December 6, 2019
In other results Canada beat Wales 31-14, New Zealand beat Samoa 40-7, Ireland beat Scotland 31-29, Australia beat USA 24-12 while Argentina beat Japan 33-7.
Fiji will play Canada in the 9th place playoff at 1.06 am tomorrow.
In the first quarterfinal England play France, New Zealand take on USA in the second quarterfinal, South Africa play Argentina in the third quarterfinal while Australia play Samoa in the last quarterfinal.
The quarterfinals will be held at 8.14pm tonight, the semifinals will be at 12am tomorrow while the final will be at 4.02am tomorrow.
The men's Cup quarter-finals in Dubai, round one of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series @FranceRugby v @EnglandRugby
— World Rugby Sevens (@WorldRugby7s) December 6, 2019
@AllBlacks7s v @USARugby @Blitzboks v @LosPumas7s @Aussie7s v @manusamoa
First game kicks off at 11:14hrs (GMT+4) on Saturday pic.twitter.com/hBZowyuyUM
| PLAY BY PLAY |
Fiji |
24-14 |
France |
| Mocenacagi gets himself a yellow card first thing this morning. | '1 | |
| '3 | France kicks off the scoring and convert as well. | |
| '4 | France get themselves another and convert. | |
| Waisea Nacuqu replies and we are back to 7 men on the field. | '6 | |
| Halftime 7-14 |
| Aminiasi Tuimaba brings us back but the conversion misses | '8 | |
| Jerry Tuwai gets us a crucial score. Conversion is good. | '11 | |
| Naduva scores another Fiji but the conversion misses. | '14 | |
| FULLTIME |
ADVERTISEMENT
Stay tuned for the latest news on our radio stations
