Nigeria Trash New Zealand 4-0, Ready To Face Chile

Nigeria bounced again into competition on the FIFA U17 Girls’s World Cup on Friday after a 4-0 trouncing of New Zealand in Goa. The scoreline would have been a lot greater had the women from Nigeria transformed extra of their scoring alternatives.

The Flamingos, who misplaced narrowly 2-1 to Germany on Tuesday, began spritely and had come shut a lot of instances earlier than Aminat Omowunmi Bello headed into the web after a candy pull-out by left-back Tumininu Adeshina.

Proper-back Miracle Usani, whose marvellous free-kick put Germany on the back-foot on Tuesday, scored her second of the event and Nigeria’s second within the thirty fourth minute to make it 2-0 in favour of Africa’s greatest crew on the interval.

Ajakaye, the crew’s high scorer within the African qualifying marketing campaign, headed powerfully from Adeshina’s nook on the hour mark, however the New Zealand goalkeeper punched the ball away.

Substitute Edidiong Etim and Ajakaye missed alternatives inside a minute, however within the seventy fifth minute, midfielder Taiwo Afolabi scored Nigeria’s third by swinging the ball into the highest proper nook from 20 yards.

Substitute Etim would have the final say with 5 of six extra minutes performed, when she capitalized on a defensive blunder to carry the ball previous the opposing keeper.

Victory gave Nigeria three valuable factors, and stand them in good stead for qualification in the event that they defeat Chile on Monday afternoon on the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar.

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