Waldrum salutes courageous Super Falcons

Nigeria’s WNT head Coach Randy Waldrum has praised his gamers, after a heartbreaking semi-final defeat to Morocco on the ongoing Girls’s African Cup of Nations.

Waldrum watched his ladies battle gallantly towards the hosts, who had report crowd on the Prince Moulay Abdallah, behind them behind them.

However, regardless of having two gamers despatched off and enduring the wave of Moroccan assault for 50 minutes with the numerical drawback.

With the sport degree at 1-1 within the common time, the Falcons within the a hundred and tenth minute practically shock the house crowd as Monday Present’s shot got here off the crossbar.

Additional time completed with the rating nonetheless deadlocked at 1-1, penalty shootout was then required to determine the titanic conflict.

Within the shootout, each Nigerian spot kick was accompanied by whistles and boos of the Moroccans.

There was hysteria within the stadium when Moroccan goalkeeper Khadijah Errmichi’s stopped Ifeoma Onumonu’s penalty.

It was the one miss of the shootout as Morocco emerged 5-4 victors.

“We tried to win, we tried all the pieces. If you find yourself outnumbered, it’s logical that you simply begin to defend. We held on, however in the long run its soccer,” Randy Waldrum mentioned.

Nigeria will shift focus to the losers’ ultimate towards Zambia on Friday on the Stade Mohammed V in Casablanca.

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