It is a tough road ahead for the Digicel Fiji 7s team as it plays its remaining pool games in the next few hours in the World Cup 7s.
Although Fiji managed to beat Georgia in its first pool match early this morning by 26-10, it is ranked 9th after the first round of games.
As Fijivillage highlighted earlier that in the World Cup, there are six pools and the teams have to score maximum points and have a good finish to top the pool, meaning that the six pool table toppers and only the two best runner-up teams will go into the Cup quarter finals.
After day 1 New Zealand is ranked first as they walloped Italy 42-0.
England is second after they beat Hong Kong convincingly by 42-5. The English are followed by the Samoans, then its Wales, Kenya, South Africa and Tonga and Canada tied at 7th place, resulting in the defending champions, Fiji in ninth place.
Iliesa Tanivula's men have to beat USA and France convincingly to make the top 8 and also improve their ranking to avoid a quarter final clash with one of the top guns in the tournament.
Speaking from Dubai after the Georgia game early this morning, Fiji Manager, Alifereti Malo said Tanivula has studied the match between US and France and is working on certain strategies to ensure that we have a strong finish.
Malo said the players are fit and ready for tonight.
NZ 7s coach, Gordon Tietjens whose team is ranked first after day one, said he is impressed with NZ's performance so far.
South African 7s Coach, Paul Treu whose team beat Japan by 26-5, said they have to work harder and cut down on their mistakes.
The second day of matches at the World Cup 7s starts tonight at 7pm, with the opening match between New Zealand and Arabian Gulf.
Fiji plays USA at 8:50pm tonight and we then take on France at 2:20am tomorrow morning.
