A Fiji-South Africa clash in the semis of the Cape Town 7's looks imminent.
South Africa and Fiji are featuring in the first two Cup Quarter-finals where they will face Scotland and Spain respectively.
The winners of these two quarters will then clash in the semis and barring any upsets, Fiji will play South Africa in the first semi.
The Fiji Airways Men’s National 7s side edged England 21-19 in their last pool match this morning where Fiji displayed great defensive structure in the second half and did not let England through.
Fiji had a slow start with a few missed tackles but responded with a try from Meli Derenalagi in the second minute of the game.
Aminiasi Tuimaba scored Fiji’s second try in the fourth minute cutting through the English defence.
With a yellow card to Vilimoni Botitu in the fifth minute, it also opened up a gap for England to score their first try at the stroke of half time bringing the points 14-7 in favour of Fiji.
Fiji scored their last try through Jerry Tuwai to take Fiji’s lead to 21-7.
England later scored two tries but was not enough to overcome the Fijians.
Fiji earlier defeated Kenya 38-7 while they thrashed France 50-0.
Fiji’s overall defence has improved however discipline is still an issue where Fiji got two yellow cards in the pool matches.
Meli Derenalagi was flashed a yellow card in the match against Kenya for a deliberate knock on while Vilimoni Botitu was yellow carded against England for a deliberate knock on.
The first cup quarterfinal will be between South Africa and Scotland at 11.04 tonight, Fiji will face Spain at 11.26pm in the second quarter-final, Australia will then take on New Zealand at 11.48pm while USA will take on England at 12.10am tomorrow.
The Cup Semifinals will start at 3.34am tomorrow and the Cup Final will be played at 6.44am tomorrow.
