U20 World Cup: Nigeria picks Three Points Off Dominican Republic in Group Stage Opener

The sport obtained off to a somewhat cagey affair, albeit fast-paced as each groups struggled to settle into the sport and assert their authority.

Throughout the wrestle, Nigeria conceded a penalty, it was awarded after a VAR overview.

Dominican Republic captain, Edison Azcona made no mistake from the spot as he despatched Chijioke Aniagboso the flawed method.

However, the Flying Eagles reacted nicely and shortly after eight minutes, have been rewarded with an equalizer when Guillermo de Pena headed an extended throw previous his personal goalkeeper.

The Flying Eagles continued to dominate as they settled into the match following the equalizer, and will have gotten extra objectives however for wastefulness in entrance of objective.

They got here shut after Jude Emmanuel examined the goalkeeper simply contained in the field with a curling effort that was solely tipped over the cross bar by goalkeeper Xavier Valdez.

Within the second half, Nigeria continued their enterprise of being wasteful in entrance of objective, Jude Sunday noticed a whole lot of ball within the ultimate third, however provided no chunk in any respect.

A couple of minutes later, Nigeria had the ball at the back of the web, however it was dominated out for offside because the workforce’s lack of coercion within the assault got here to play once more.

Three Nigerian attackers made an try to attain the objective after a wonderfully weighted cross was despatched into the field however Sunday Jude who was offside interfered within the play even when the ball was favoured to fall to the ft of one other.

A number of moments later, within the 71st minute, a defensive error noticed the Dominican right-back’s tried cross to his personal goalkeeper was intercepted by Samson Lawal would made no mistake slotting it previous goalkeeper Xavier Valdez.

The Flying Eagles would proceed to dominate and create a plethora of possibilities, solely to be undone by the Gamers’hero advanced.

Dominican Republic, nonetheless, did supply little or no risk at that time, besides from a rasping drive from 25 yards out that stung the palms of goalkeeper Aniagboso.

The Flying Eagles have been in a position to see out the sport and wrap up three factors.

The workforce will regulate Italy as they might face off in opposition to the European aspect of their second match of the marketing campaign.