Fiji......................23 Portugal .......... 24
FIJI edged into the quarter-finals despite losing a classic encounter to Portugal, who recorded their first victory in the tournament with a late Samuel Marques conversion.
Frank Lomani and Marques exchanged firsthalf penalties in a period where both teams failed to fire, but Portugal struck either side of a Levani Botia try for Fiji through Raffaele Storti and Francisco Fernandes to open up a seven point lead.
Fiji drew level through Mesake Doge’s score and Lomani’s conversion, and the scrum-half knocked over two pen...