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Paris 2024: Super Falcons Determined To Progress In Olympics Race Against Feisty ‘Lucy’


Tremendous Falcons stars say they’re eager to offer their easiest on Tuesday night and consign Ethiopia to the heap with a purpose to attain the penultimate spherical of qualifiers for subsequent yr’s Ladies’s Olympic Soccer Match in France.
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Coach Justine Madugu mentioned on Sunday that his women have been dissatisfied by the lead to East Africa and eager to step on the pedal on the MKO Abiola Nationwide Stadium on Tuesday night.
“We weren’t too joyful about the results of that first sport. It’s unlucky to not win the primary leg however we’re equally real looking with ourselves. We had some challenges in that sport, and did our greatest to shortly surmount them. The ladies have overcome these challenges and are actually decided to ensure they’re a part of the Olympics subsequent yr.”
Goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie, who was formidable on the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup in the summertime and has been enormous for French membership Paris FC within the ongoing UEFA Ladies Champions League, assured that the taking part in physique is impressed to brush apart the Ethiopian problem and look ahead to the Olympic ticket after two extra rounds of the qualification sequence.
“Our plan was to win the primary leg (in Addis Ababa), however we’ve taken the draw and the teachings that got here from there. We’re trying ahead to the return match in Abuja and we’ll go all out for victory.”
Workforce captain Rasheedat Ajibade added: “The spirit in camp is superb and we’re trying ahead to victory. We’ll work very exhausting from the very first minute as a result of we’ve no motive to under-rate them; they gave us a scare within the first leg. Our goal is to earn a transparent win and make progress within the race.”
New-comer Rinsola Babajide, who received her first cap for Nigeria in Addis Ababa, mentioned: “All people wished extra from the primary sport; we all know we under-performed. We actually ought to have received however the circumstances made it troublesome. Now, at residence and in entrance of our personal folks, we’ve obtained the benefit and we simply must work tougher than ever earlier than, get the objectives and most significantly, win on the day.”
Ethiopia’s senior women will likely be no pushovers, because the crew defeated their counterparts from Chad 10-0 on mixture within the first spherical to be eligible to sq. as much as the Tremendous Falcons. They defeated Chad 6-0 in Addis Ababa and adopted up with a 4-0 lashing of their hosts in N’Djamena a couple of days later.
Tuesday’s encounter on the MKO Abiola Nationwide Stadium will start at 4pm.
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