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Match Highlights - Fiji's historic win over France
By Online Editors
An inspired Fiji earned a historic first win over France with a superb 21-14 win in Paris on Saturday.
Fiji had lost all of their previous nine encounters against Les Bleus, their last matchup coming in 2014, but a sublime showing brought a stunned silence to the Stade de France.
Fiji took an early 7-0 lead with superstar centre Semi Radradra scored with an outstretched hand after a power handoff floored halfback Baptiste Serin. In a tit for tat exchange, France hit back through a driving maul through Guilhem Guirado before Toulon winger Josua Tuisova re-took the lead for Fiji.
Tuisova finished a well-worked scrum move, scoring in the corner on the end of the movement from Fiji's star-studded backline. The sideline conversion was missed, however, leading to France taking the halftime lead 14-12 after Guirado went over for his second driving maul try.
A second-half onslaught failed to materialise from France, though, and three penalties from Ben Volavola secured a famous Fiji win.
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So sad, god rest him. Too young to be gone. RIP
Go to commentsThe GB coach. “Just because we don’t get together as much as other teams we don’t use that as an excuse for performances when we don’t hit the mark”. Why mention it at all then?
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