“We expected it to be a really tough game, a hard game in many ways and I think it was for both sides,” Buzzetti says.
He says the hard surface complicated matters a bit for his side, but acknowledged that all the teams are playing on the same fields.
“Everyone has to play on this ground. Apart from that we had a good game, we had some chances in the first few minutes that we should have put away but we missed that.
“After that Vanuatu took over the game for the rest of the first half but we made some changes and came back.”
After Nickel Chand found the equaliser in the 63rd minute things got a little complicated for Fiji as Kolinio Sivoki was given his marching orders with 10 minutes remaining.
“Unfortunately we had one player sent off and it’s a little bit harder with 10 men as we wanted to protect the draw and so didn’t have so many chances to go forward,” he says.
“It was the first game, we were adjusting to the conditions, the weather and the ground and I think things will be different for everyone today.”
Fiji will help get Match Day 2 proceedings underway at 10am on Bisini Field 3 against Federated States of Micronesia.

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