Nigeria’s Under-20 women football team, the Falconets, have advanced to the final round of African Qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup.
The progress is coming after the Falconets defeated their Cameroonian counterparts 3-0 in the second leg clash at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja, to achieve a 3-0 aggregate victory.
Having battled to a barren draw in the first leg played in Douala, the second leg was still open for either of the two teams to progress but it was the Nigerian women that got the job done.
Left-sided midfielder Esther Onyenezide set the tone for Saturday’s win in Abuja when she broke the deadlock in the 22nd minute.
Precious Vincent doubled the Falconets’ lead eight minutes from the interval before Onyenezide struck again in the 73rd minute to put the match beyond the young Lionesses.
The Falconets, with one more hurdle to cross, will slug it out with the winner of the Morocco-Senegal fixture in a two-legged affair next month for a slot at the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica in August.
It is worthy to note that Saturday’s encounter was the first international match at the Abuja Stadium in also six years.
Before now, the last game played at the now christened MKO Abiola Stadium was between the senior women national team, the Super Falcons, and their Senegalese counterparts.
The Falcons recorded a 2-0 win in that Women Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match in April 2016.
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