Massive game against Portugal next week - Matavesi

Fiji Water Flying Fijians hooker Sam Matavesi says they still have a massive game next week against Portugal to get through to the Rugby World Cup quarterfinals.

After their 17-12 victory over Georgia yesterday morning, Matavesi says it was a tough game, and their performance wasn’t good enough.

He says the message at halftime is that they needed to start winning some collisions, and start going forward.

The 31-year-old says the Georgian side were really physical and really good.

He adds next week, they will put a lot more into it.

Matavesi says if they got five points from their game against Georgia, they would have been through to the quarter-finals, but it hasn't, so they still have to turn up and beat Portugal.

He adds they have respect for the Portuguese side.

Fiji needs only one point to qualify for the quarterfinals, so they need to beat or get a draw against Portugal.

Fiji will take on Portugal at 7am next Monday in Toulouse.

Looking at other results this morning, Scotland thrashed Romania 84-0, Australia beat Portugal 34-14, and South Africa thumped Tonga 49-18.

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