{"id":11660,"date":"2024-10-11T05:49:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T16:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11660"},"modified":"2024-10-11T05:49:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T16:49:10","slug":"bula-boys-claim-victory-on-fiji-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11660","title":{"rendered":"Bula Boys claim victory on Fiji Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fiji Bula Boys kick started their FIFA World Cup Oceania Qualifiers campaign to a good start after beating Solomon Islands 1-0 at the HFC Bank Stadium in Suva.<\/p>\n<p>Solomon Islands were dominant in the opening 10 minutes of the match, creating a handful of scoring attempts at Fiji\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\">\n<p>The lone goal of the match came from the boot of captain Roy Krishna, who shot in a cross kick deep outside Solomon Island\u2019s goal box for a 1-0 lead in the 12th minute.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-665530\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fbcnews.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/krishna-goal2-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Roy Krishna scores the lone goal of the match<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fiji received a costly blow 39 minutes into the first spell, after Aporosa Yada was handed a red card for dangerous play, reducing the side to 10 men.<\/p>\n<p>Fiji managed to hold their line despite being one player down, defending their turf until the sound of the hooter for halftime.<\/p>\n<p>The Roy Krishna captained side came out stronger in the second half, keeping the visitors out of their half in the opening 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Fiji continued to hold their ground despite being a player short, heading into the last 30 minutes of the match with a 1-nil lead.<\/p>\n<p>Roy continued to show great leadership skills, creating two scoring opportunities for striker Thomas Dunn but was unable to execute with a finish throughout the 60th minute.<\/p>\n<p>fbc<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fiji Bula Boys kick started their FIFA World Cup Oceania Qualifiers campaign to a good start after beating Solomon Islands 1-0 at the HFC Bank Stadium in Suva. Solomon Islands were dominant in the opening 10 minutes of the match, creating a handful of scoring attempts at Fiji\u2019s goal. The lone goal of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11662,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11660\/revisions\/11662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}