India 2022: Flamingos Countenance ‘Interesting Encounter’ With USA In Mumbai

Nigeria’s U17 ladies say they foresee an fascinating encounter after they sort out america of America in Navi Mumbai in one of many quarter-finals matches of this 12 months’s FIFA U17 Girls’s World Cup finals.

The Flamingos misplaced narrowly, 1-2, to a different powerhouse of ladies’s soccer, Germany of their first match of the competitors however have since overcome stage fright and have been worthy 4-0 and 2-1 winners over New Zealand and Chile respectively.

Navi Mumbai, a deliberate ultra-modern metropolis that’s solely 25 kilometers from the Indian capital metropolis of Mumbai, is the venue for this titanic conflict set for the Dr. DY Patil Stadium from 12 midday Nigeria time on Friday.

Nigeria, who could be aiming to interrupt their quarterfinal jinx at this competitors, is up in opposition to the USA for the primary time at this stage and this encounter is a chance for the West Africans to make historical past.

Having failed to succeed in the semi-finals in six earlier editions, the Nigerians got down to obtain the unattainable, ending the nation’s 14-year look ahead to a last-four berth on their fourth quarterfinal look.

The People will hope to succeed in the semis for the primary time since 2008 after they completed as runners-up on the inaugural version in New Zealand.

Unattainable is nothing, actually. On twenty fifth July 2010, in Augsburg, Nigeria’s U20 ladies, Falconets got here from behind to defeat the USA on penalties in one of many quarter-final matches of the 2010 FIFA U20 Girls’s World Cup in Germany. The match ended 1-1 and the Falconets went on to win 4-2 after a penalty shootout.

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