Second Semifinal of world U20 Women’s Football Between Champions North Korea And Columbia Will Be One Sided.
The 2nd semifinal encounter between defending champions and three times world champions, North Korea and Columbia is a classified Biblical David versus Goliath soap opera to be watched in Poland on Wednesday at 5pm.
Nothing points to a possible win for the PowerPuff girls of Columbia except a divine miracle like Nigeria U20 Boys got and is now tagged as Darman Miracle where Nigeria offsets 4 goals down yo defeat Soviet Union in Saudi Arabia but that could even be different for Nigeria was under the yoke of goals concession before the country rose to obtain miracles.
Both sides had met at group E stage in this tournament which North Korea drilled the Columbians 3-0 when Rim Jong Choe opened scoring in the 11th minute and her sister Yom Choe scored a brace via two penalty kicks in the 81st and 85th minutes. Their stats show that North Korea may change the destiny of the Columbians from Coffee Growers to Coffee or Goals Harvesters on Wednesday. Greatest defeat of Columbia was 6-0 drubbing by Brazil at Fray Bantus in Uruguay on 29th January 2014.
North Korea is the only team among all the 32 competitors that is yet to concede a goal in five matches played so far. Columbia conceded 4 goals. North Korea is one of the highest scoring teams with 13 Goals like Nigeria bit Columbia got a distant 5 goals. Like they say on street football in Nigeria, “Pressure ti wa (there is pressure)”. How can they cope with the goal scoring machines from North Korea that are computer padded with Japanese and Chinese touches to bring back the trophy to Asia for the 4th time.
Four of the North Korean goals were through penalty kicks in regular play compared to just one penalty kick Columbia had. There will be forced errors that will bring more penalty kicks with the dominance of North Korea in ball possessions of average 64.4% to 45.8% and fast average of 18 to 7 passes which could make Columbia bag more red cards, yes straight red cards on Wednesday. They already have a red card record.
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We need to inform you that North Korea have the record of being the only nation that has lifted the trophy thrice in 8 appearances done in 2006, 2016 and at the last edition in 2024. They were runners up in 2008; placed 4th in 2014 and were stopped at the quarterfinal stages thrice in 2010, 2012 and 2018. What an impeccable record! A Journalist from the CONMEBOL region is planning a one man protest to compel FIFA to conduct drug test on the Korean babes because of their bionic strength.
Columbia is at the party for the 4th time and never went beyond the quarterfinals on three previous occasions in 2010, 2022 and 2024. They made semifinal for the first time. Can they spring a surprise and beat record holding three times champions on Wednesday?
The losers match for Bronze is scheduled for Saturday for whoever loses in this match to face the loser between Spain and Italy. The grand finale is scheduled for Sunday.
With all the four African representatives, Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania and Benin Republic ousted we cannot tell the interest of especially Nigerian football lovers except to say very clearly that Nigerians are die addict of good football and can hiss at any under performing team like snakes.
Eniola Olatunji reporting for Patmos Media Line.
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