…Morocco Outwitted by German Machines in 3-0 Win.
The Flamingoes of Nigeria on Tuesday in Rabat Morocco earned their first victory at the ongoing World U17 Women’s football tournament with 2-0 over Las Boricuas of Puerto Rico in the second group game.
Queen Joseph placed Oluwakemi Adegbuyi in fine setting to score the opener in the 25th minute while Precious Oscar topped it up in the late minute of 90+3 through Oluebube Umejiaku pass.
Defending champions, North Korea bashed Poland 6-0 with braces from Kim Won-Sim and Ri Yun-Gyong while Ri Yun-Rim and Yun-Gyong also scored.
North Korea leads Group B with 6 points and 11 goals, Nigeria climbed to the 2nd position with 3 points and +1 goals difference; Poland is 3rd with 3 points but -4 goals difference while Puerto Rico is 4th with no point and -8 goals difference.
Last group B matches will be played simultaneously on Friday at 4pm when Nigeria will need to tackle North Korea well not to have heavy defeat and Poland will pray to beat Puerto Rico well to push Nigeria to the 3rd place in the group.
Hosts Morocco the only African country to have earlier won a game today stumbled to the fire power of the German Machines 3-0 in group A.
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The Germans got the goals through Marie Kleeman in the 27th minute; Lena Martens in the 34th minute and Clara Choisy in the 45+2 minute.
Group A will finish their group hussles on Friday at 7pm in simultaneous mode when hosts Morocco will play Argentina and Germany will play New Zealand that lost 0-2 today to Argentina.
Tomorrow Wednesday Canada will meet Norway at 4pm in group C game same time Japan will face France in group D. At 7pm, Ghana will slug it out against the Samba girls of Brazil in Group C while Venezuela and Zambia will play a survival encounter at the same time in group D.
Eniola Olatunji reporting for Patmos Media Line.
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