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Gallant Eagles B Falter On Penalties Against Ghana
The Tremendous Eagles B got here fairly shut however finally misplaced out on penalties after a flaming battle with the Black Galaxies of Ghana led to penalty shoot-out heartache on the MKO Abiola Nationwide Stadium, Abuja on Saturday night.
Ghana gained the primary leg in Cape Coast 2-0 courtesy of a penalty kick award early within the second half and a late objective scored on the counter and opted for a contain-and-counter technique in Nigeria’s administrative capital. The plan labored for big swathes of an encounter dominated by the Eagles B, however two well-taken second-half targets by Muhammed Zulkifilu and Chijioke Akuneto drew the fixture degree and meant the lottery of penalties would determine the winner.
Substitute Morice Chukwu crashed his kick, Nigeria’s third, in opposition to the crossbar within the shootout handy Ghana the ticket to be at subsequent 12 months’s seventh African Nations Championship finals. He was the one one who failed to attain from the spot as Ghana gained 5-4.
Nigeria created a hatful of possibilities in a ferocious first half, however Babatunde Bello’s long-range pictures both didn’t discover a goal or had been punched away by goalkeeper Ibrahim Danladi, and free headers introduced to Valentine Odoh and Zulkifilu had been wasted.
The introduction of Akuneto within the second half introduced extra urgency to Nigeria’s recreation, and the Eagles B shot forward within the 77th minute after Zulkifilu related house gloriously from a pull-out.
With the seconds working out, within the fourth minute of time-added-on, Akuneto powered house after a nook kick was flicked into his path by Samuel Amadi.
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