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Mixed Reactions For Falcons After Defeat To Japan In Pre-World Cup Friendly

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Mixed Reactions For Falcons After Defeat To Japan In Pre-World Cup Friendly

Feminine soccer lovers have expressed their blended reactions after the tremendous falcons of Nigeria misplaced to the Japanese feminine nationwide staff in an organized World Cup preparation match.

The Tremendous Falcons fell like a pack of playing cards to Japan in a pleasant encounter on Thursday within the Noevir Stadium, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. This has made Nigerians increase eyebrows because it’s believed that the two nil loss spells doom for the Falcons forward of subsequent 12 months’s ladies’s world cup.

Tamaka of Japan was Falcons’ nightmare as she slot in two targets in fast succession over 4 minutes. She broke the impasse with a well-played freekick and doubled the lead of the Nadeshikos as she despatched goalkeeper Nnadozie the fallacious approach in a transformed penalty kick.

Reacting to the defeat, Former Nigerian ladies’s nationwide staff assistant coach Mansur Abdullahi expressed his fear over the constant losses of the Tremendous Falcons forward of the ladies’s World Cup. In keeping with the coach, the way in which issues are, Nigeria could not do too nicely because the indicators are there.

“We conceded two targets in lower than seven minutes which isn’t good in any respect. Our defenders are simply ball-watching. We misplaced the sport as a result of we misplaced focus and our assault may be very poor.

“We have to panic as a result of after we go to the World Cup, we won’t meet pushover groups. All of them certified from their continents which implies that they’re the perfect at their continental stage. It’s a trigger to panic”.

Then again, former Falconet assistant coach, Ogbonda Whyte has poured chilly water on the favored declare. He insisted that there isn’t a trigger for fear as there may be nonetheless loads of time.

“I don’t assume that there’s any purpose to panic for now as a result of we’re nonetheless within the preparatory interval. The coach is making an attempt to check some new gamers who simply got here into the staff. We nonetheless have time to construct a staff.

“Allowing for that these are simply completely different gamers coming from completely different locations. The coach too got here new and he’s nonetheless making an attempt to check African soccer and mentality. There isn’t a must panic. Issues will take form earlier than the world cup”

Japan have prolonged its profitable streak in opposition to the African giants to 3 video games and The Falcons of Nigeria then again at the moment are winless of their final 5 video games. Subsequent summer season, New Zealand and Australia will host the remainder of the world within the FIFA Girls’s World Cup.


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