New Zealand suffered a big blow as their two key players Tomasi Cama Junior and Nigel Hunt have been ruled out because of injury.
Coach Gordon Tietjens said he will now use his reserve players to try to win the George 7's tournament.
The Cup quarterfinals in the George 7's tournaments will start at 9:42 tonight with the opening match between New Zealand and USA.
The second quarterfinal at 10:04pm will see Samoa take on Argentina. South Africa will play Scotland in the third quarterfinal at 10:26pm.
Fiji 7's team will meet Kenya in the Cup quarterfinal at 10:48 tonight. Meanwhile Fiji in their opening Pool match last night defeated Canada by 29-0. Then they beat USA 47-7 this morning and in their final Pool match Fiji defeated France by 34 points to 12.
NZ suffer set back
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