MATCH HIGHLIGHTS AND REPORT: Nigeria vs Brazil - FIFA U17 World Cup Chile 2015
MATCH HIGHLIGHTS
MATCH REPORT:
Line-ups
NIGERIA
1 UDOH (GK), 2 LAZARUS, 4 ENOGELA, 5 ZAKARI, 6 MICHAEL (-61') ((+63') (18 ESSIEN) (20 OKONKWO) (+61'), 7 BAMGBOYE (-90') (11 MADUEKE), 8 CHUKWUEZE, 9 OSIMHEN, 10 NWAKALI (C), 14 IKWU, 15 ANUMUDU
BRAZIL
1 JULIANO (GK), 6 ROGÉRIO, 7 LEANDRO, 8 ANDREY (-63') 17 (GEOVANE), 9 L. HENRIQUE (-63') (19 ARTHUR), 10 EVANDER, 11 LINCOLN (C) (-79') (20 ERON), 13 DODÔ, 14 E. MILITÃO, 15 ZÉ MARCOS, 16 GUILHERME
Nigeria zoomed into the Semi-finals of the FIFA U-17 World Cup Chile 2015 with a comprehensive 3 nil annihilation of three time winners, Brazil. It was the game between the Competition's All-time best teams. Nigeria having won it four times to Brazil's three and incidentally, their first meeting in the history of the competition.
Nigeria the title holder got the upper hand over Brazil despite been on the receiving end of Brazil's relentless attack in the opening stages with Goalkeeper Akpan who came to the rescue and profligate finishes in the Nigerian goal area by the Brazilian forwards. They were effectively punished for the missed opportunities when the Competitions leading Scorer, Victor Osimhen, who has scored in every match the Golden Eaglets has played, registered his 8th goal through a fine header which was deflected into the net via an in-swinging cross from the impressive John Lazarus in the 29th minute.
A minute later Nigeria doubled the lead off a set up by Victor Osimhen which fell kindly to Kingsley Michael who stabbed the ball against the ground resulting in a bounce which arched beyond the reach of the Seleção goalie Juliano, straight into the net.
In the 34minute, Anumudu's low shot beat Juliano again for the third goal of the match.
The Second half was a ding dong affair as none of the two teams could convert the chances that came their way, with Evander going closest to scoring and Funsho Bamgboye also losing the chance that came his way and marked his day, collecting a needless booking that effectively ruled him out of the Semi-finals, cheating to score with his hand. Osimhen also came close to registering his ninth of the Competition when he failed to convert a one on one chance with the Brazilian goalie and was a constant thorn in the flesh of The Brazilian defence. Brazil lacked the cutting edge to break through the Nigerian defence line as the game wound down to a close. Nigeria will head to Concepcion for Thursday's semi-final against the winner of today's quarter-final match between Ecuador and Mexico.
In another match, Africa's other representative;
Mali also booked a place into the semi-finals with a 1-0 victory over Croatia. Interestingly,
Mali’s player Sekou
Koita wearing jersey number 20 scored the solitary goal
that took Mali, the African Champion into the semi-finals in 20th minute. Mali will now face the
winner between Belgium and Costa Rica for a place in the final of the
competition.
In today's Fixtures, Ecuador will
battle it out with Mexico and Belgium will slug it out with Costa Rica for the
last two places for the semi-finals.
MATCH HIGHLIGHTS: Mali vs Croatia - FIFA U17 World Cup Chile 2015
Please kindly share your comments with us. We will be so glad if you do. Thanks in anticipation.
No comments:
Post a Comment