The Falconets will face Spain in the quarter-final of the on-going U-20 Women’s World Cup in France. They Nigerian girls qualified after a 1-1 draw with China.
The Chinese took the lead in 41st minute through Zhang and would have qualified if the scores had remained like that. But the last kick of the match turned the match to the favour of the Falconets as the qualified through an own goal by Dou.
Other quarter-final pairings will see Germany, who won Nigeria’s group after defeating Haiti 3-2 take on Japan, who whitewashed Paraguay 6-0.
England will face impressive debutants Netherlands while host, France will slug it out with North Korea. Surprisingly, super powers like United States of America and Brazil are out.
Africa’s other representative; Ghana was eliminated after two matches. They lost 4-1 to France, 4-0 to debutants, the Netherlands. They defeated New Zealand by a lone goal in their last match.
