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U17 WAFU B: Nigeria faces tricky SF test
The die is solid for the semi ultimate of the U17 WAFU B Championship with the brackets sorted and pairings decided.
Nigeria had lengthy booked its place within the ultimate 4 of the Championship, following an ideal successful report within the group levels.
After the 4-2 victory over hosts Ghana within the opening Group A recreation, the Golden Eaglets confirmed consistency within the second recreation, successful 3-1 in opposition to the Younger Sparrowhawks of Togo.
In Group B Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast emerged as the highest two groups, the latter recorded an ideal run in three video games and completed with most factors.
On their half, Ivory Coast solely barely made it on purpose distinction to beat Benin Republic and Niger Republic to the Runner-up spot – all three picked up 3 factors every.
Subsequently, the Younger Elephants will now face group A winners, Nigeria, within the first semi ultimate on the Cape Coast Stadium, whereas Ghana battles the Championship’s most in type workforce afterward Tuesday.
In the meantime, Nigeria’s head Coach Nduka Ugbade predicted a repeat of the group stage assembly with Ghana within the ultimate.
Ugbade praised the ‘doggedness’ of the Black Starlets within the first assembly, and controversially urged his workforce was fortunate to have come away with a win.
Ghana had assembled a brand new squad with simply two weeks to the opening recreation of the competitors after a bulk of their workforce had been disqualified for failing the MRI take a look at.
Within the submit match convention, after the win, Ugbade – a former U17 World Cup winner himself – pressured how a lot respect he had for the Ghanaian workforce.
When requested for his ideas on the Starlets, He predicted a rematch.
“I feel that Nigeria will seemingly play Ghana once more within the ultimate,” Ugbade advised reporters.
The U17 WAFU B Championship serves as qualification for the 2023 U17 Africa Cup of Nations in Algeria and three groups will proceed to the match correct.
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