WCAFCL: Bayelsa Queens falter in opener

Nigeria consultant within the Girls’s CAF Champions League, Bayelsa Queens of Yenegoa began their debut marketing campaign on a dropping observe.

The Prosperity Ladies fell by two objectives to 1 defending champions, Mamelodi Sunset Girls of South Africa on the Grand Stade De Marrakech.

Bayelsa Queens had began properly with the momentum on their facet, however lack of crew work and incapacity to transform possibilities grew to become their undoing.

The South Africans later grew into the sport seizing momentum from the Nigerian membership facet and it was solely a matter of time earlier than the primary aim would come.

By the thirty first minute, the aim got here as Lelona Daweti put Sundowns Girls forward with a superb strike.

A rise within the depth of the sport for the Queens, however the aim didn’t come as the primary half ended 1-0 in favour of the Mamelodi Girls.

Within the second half, it was the South African champions that stepped up the plate, urgent laborious for the second though the Nigerian champions put up a superb combat.

By the 57th minute, Lelona Daweti scored her second turning into the primary to attain a brace on this 12 months’s version of the competitors.

At this level, it was trying tough for the Queens from Nigeria to get again to the sport, however conceding the second aim appear to wake the women.

It was Bayelsa Queens then onwards as pile the strain for that aim that would change the complexion of the sport.

Within the eightieth minute, Bayelsa pulled one again courtesy Mary-Magdalene who scores her facet’s first aim within the competitors and arrange a nail biting finish to the sport.

The Nigerian ladies did push for the equaliser, however a disciplined and efficient protection ensured the South African girls held on to win.