{"id":8066,"date":"2023-10-03T05:19:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T16:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8066"},"modified":"2023-10-03T05:19:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T16:19:30","slug":"we-want-to-compete-against-fiji-its-our-last-chance-portugal-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8066","title":{"rendered":"We want to compete against Fiji, it&#8217;s our last chance \u2013 Portugal captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We want to compete against Fiji, it&#8217;s our last chance.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal skipper Tomas Appleton highlighted this during their post match press conference after their 34-14 loss to Australia when asked about them pushing Wales, drawing with Georgia and if they can they also push Fiji.<\/p>\n<p>Appleton says of course they are playing just for them, for the team.<\/p>\n<p>He says at the beginning of the World Cup they said that they want to compete against all sides.<\/p>\n<p>On insisting he is not that surprised that Portugal have competed so well at this World Cup.<\/p>\n<div class=\"plyr plyr--audio plyr--stopped plyr--ready\">\n<div class=\"plyr__controls\">The Flying Fijians play Portugal at 7am next Monday.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For Fiji to make it to the quarter-finals they only need 1 point which means either a win or a draw.<\/p>\n<p>FIJI VILLAGE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We want to compete against Fiji, it&#8217;s our last chance. Portugal skipper Tomas Appleton highlighted this during their post match press conference after their 34-14 loss to Australia when asked about them pushing Wales, drawing with Georgia and if they can they also push Fiji. Appleton says of course they are playing just for them, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8066","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\/8066","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=8066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8068,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions\/8068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}