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Luke Tagi of Fiji is tackled by Beka Gigashvili of Georgia during their Rugby World Cup clash this morning. [Rugby World Cup]
Fiji Water Flying Fijians coach Simon Raiwalui acknowledges the team’s mistakes on the field and recognizes a lack of momentum in the first half of the game.
Despite the 17-12 victory over Georgia this morning, Raiwalui feels the players had room for improvement but is content with the result.
He attributes the win in the second half to a late line-up correction.
“We piggybacked our way into the first half with mistakes and they put pressure, they are a very good team, we respected them. We know Georgia well and we have played them a number of times, they are a very good team and we knew they would be up for it so we needed to match them better in the first half.”
“That is amazing!”
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Raiwalui further explains that, despite Georgia’s strong initial performance, they managed to apply pressure and eventually scored more points.
The Flying Fijians will face Portugal next Monday at 7 am.
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