“We have never missed the World Cup and we won’t start now” -Onome Ebi

Ever-present Nigeria consider they are going to have a good time one other FIFA Girls’s World Cup ticket on Thursday evening after a quarter-final conflict with neighbours Cameroon in Casablanca that may decide who’s assured a spot in Australia & New Zealand subsequent 12 months.

All 4 groups that make the semi finals on the ongoing Girls’s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco would have picked computerized tickets for the Girls’s World Cup, with the crew adjudged to have completed fifth offered with one other likelihood for a shot at a Playoff Match subsequent 12 months.

A 2-1 defeat by the hands of South Africa’s Banyana Banyana of their opening match of Group C final week Monday considerably dimmed the shine of the Tremendous Falcons, however they rose stoutly to the event and gained their different two matches with six factors and 6 objectives benefit taking pictures them to the final eight.

Thursday’s spectacle in Casablanca is predicted to be explosive, however Nigeria captain Onome Ebi says the Falcons are up for the problem.

“After all, we all know what to anticipate. The Cameroonians additionally wish to go to the World Cup. However now we have by no means missed the World Cup and we can’t begin now. Our eyes are totally targeted on Australia & New Zealand, after which we are able to begin speaking in regards to the trophy.”

Nigeria are the untouchables, being one in every of solely six nations on the planet to have participated in all eight editions of the FIFA Girls’s World Cup.