Uninspiring! Nigeria Stutters in AFCON U20 Opener vs Senegal

Nigeria’s U20 MNT began their AFCON marketing campaign in Egypt within the worst attainable means as they fell 1-0 to the Younger Teranga Lions of Senegal.

The Flying Eagles went behind in opposition to the run of play after a swift counter-attack by Senegal.

Goalkeeper Nathaniel Nwosu had parried the preliminary effort earlier than Souleymane Faye pounced on the free ball and stabbed into the online.

In a fairly forgettable flip of occasions, Flying Eagles ahead, Ahmed Abdullahi, obtained despatched off within the 96th minute of the sport with the crew urgent exhausting for an equalizer.

The defeat will certainly depart the teaching crew a headache because the crew lack co-ordination and there was no rhythm to their fashion regardless of having a slight edge on the possession.

In the meantime, victory for Senegal places them on prime of group A forward of Egypt, who shared the factors with Mozambique within the match’s opening match.

Nigeria is rock-bottom within the group, being the one crew and not using a level after sport day 1 of the match.

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Right here’s how group A stands after matchday 1️⃣#TotalEnergiesAFCONU20 pic.twitter.com/Lgsrw2cBXm

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Coach Ladan Bosso and his lads will likely be again on Wednesday, after they face host nation Egypt is a sport with very excessive stakes.

Nigeria should get a bounce again win to remain within the competitors and enhance their probabilities of qualification both by the group or as one in every of two third positioned groups.