Morocco 2022: Super Falcons target FIFA World Cup ticket against Cameroon Lionesses – National

Ever-present Nigeria consider they’ll have fun one other FIFA Ladies’s World Cup ticket on Thursday night time after a quarter-final conflict with neighbors Cameroon in Casablanca that may decide who’s assured a spot in Australia & New Zealand subsequent yr.

All 4 groups that make the semi-finals on the ongoing continental championship in Morocco would have picked automated tickets for the Ladies’s World Cup, with the workforce adjudged to have completed fifth offered with one other probability for a shot at a Playoff Event subsequent yr.

Cameroon will come into Thursday’s encounter with the mentality of the yam pounder, realizing they’ve all the time been second finest to Nigeria at this stage, and a 3rd consecutive look on the FIFA World Cup will definitely enchantment to the Indomitable Lionesses.

A 1-2 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 received their different two matches with six factors and 6 objectives benefit capturing them to the final eight.

Cameroon additionally began considerably slowly, drawing with Zambia, however they picked up impressively and their reward is what is definitely probably the most anticipated quarter-final tie at this match.

Each nations flew Africa’s flag on the 2015 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup finals in Canada and on the final version in France three years in the past, however Nigeria are untouchable, being certainly one of solely six nations on the planet to have participated in all eight editions of the quadrennial international showpiece.

“We’re able to face Cameroon,” stated Nigeria coach Randy Waldrum, after his Tremendous Falcons arrived in Morocco’s business and financial capital, Casablanca on Monday forward of Thursday’s encounter.

Cameroon suffered a 6-0 spanking from the Falcons within the semi-finals of the 1998 Ladies Africa Cup of Nations (which Nigeria hosted and which was the primary version) however issues have improved a bit for the Lionesses since then. Within the semi-finals of the 2010 version in South Africa, they had been thumped 5-1 by the Falcons.

Each nations contested the Ultimate matches of the 2014 and 2016 Ladies AFCON. In 2014 in Windhoek, Namibia, the Falcons ran away 2-0 winners to elevate the trophy for the seventh time. In 2016 in Yaounde, the Lionesses suffered heartbreak in entrance of their cheering followers when Want Oparanozie scored a late purpose handy the trophy to Nigeria for the eighth time.

4 years in the past, in Accra, each groups additionally met within the semi-final stage. It was a troublesome duel that ended 0-0 after regulation and additional time, however the Falcons once more prevailed 4-2 after a penalty shoot-out on the way in which to their ninth title.

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

“In fact, we all know what to anticipate. The Cameroonians additionally need to go to the World Cup. However we’ve by no means missed the World Cup and we received’t begin now. Our eyes are totally targeted on Australia & New Zealand, after which we will begin speaking concerning the trophy.”

Forwards Rasheedat Ajibade and Uchenna Kanu, on two objectives every, are anticipated to start out in opposition to Cameroon, with Coach Waldrum additionally anticipated to maintain religion with a lot of the crew that decimated Burundi in Rabat on Sunday night time.

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