Nigeria’s U-17 ladies’s crew, the Flamingos, have saved their hopes alive on the ongoing FIFA U-17 Girls’s World Cup in Morocco after beating Puerto Rico 2-0 on Tuesday night time in Rabat.
The Flamingos began the Group B match brightly, placing stress on their opponents and creating probabilities within the early levels.
Their efforts paid off within the twenty fifth minute when Oluwakemi Adegbuyi scored from Queen Joseph’s help to offer Nigeria the lead.
Nigeria continued to dominate possession however failed so as to add to their benefit earlier than the break.
Within the second half, Queen Joseph, Tosin Rafiu and Favour Nkwocha got here near scoring, whereas head coach Hakeem Busari launched Awawu Bashiru and Oluebube Umejiaku within the 67th minute to strengthen the assault.
The Flamingos lastly scored their second objective within the ninetieth minute when substitute Valuable Oscar headed house a cross from Kemi Adegbuyi.
Nigeria defended their lead throughout six minutes of added time to safe a worthwhile 2-0 victory and their first three factors of the event.
The consequence comes as a lift for the Flamingos forward of their subsequent Group B fixture towards North Korea on Friday.
North Korea defeated Poland 6-1 within the different group match, establishing an necessary encounter with Nigeria as each groups look to strengthen their probabilities of reaching the knockout stage.
