…Poland Drubs Puerto Rico 6-2.
The Flamingoes of Nigeria Friday put up a superlative performance to upset four times world U17 champions and current defending champions, North Korea 3-1 in last group B encounter.
A 16 year old Robo Queens FC player picked up from the slums of Mushin in Lagos State of Nigeria, Oluwakemi Adegbuyi that had become a rising star of the tournament in Morocco scored the opener in the 15th minute from Mary Dunstan pass a goal that stunned even the Koreans. What would have been her brace scored in the 89th minute took more than 5 minutes of dead football from VAR officials and the centre Referee before the goal was rejected.
Nigeria confused Korea as the Nigerian Coach, Akeem Busari formerly sweat merchant of the Shooting Stars FC of Ibadan had warned that his wards were coming for the jugular of the high scoring Koreans and they should expect an upset.
The upset developed when Tosin Rafiu found Oluebube Umejiaku to score the 2nd goal in 38th minute and on resumption of the 2nd half Kanyinsola Yusuf called Kanyinsola baby in camp slotted in the finisher 3rd goal in the 56th minute before the Adegbuyi controversial goal that CAF Refs Committee will have to look at.
Poland expectedly whipped Puerto Rico 6-2 in the other Group B match. Zofia Burzan and Wiktoria Skrzupczak supplied braces while Meja Leskiewicz and Switala scored for Poland. Olmo Aleeta got the two goals for Puerto Rico in the 51st and 90+1 minutes.
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North Korea were world champions in 2008, 2016, 2024 and 2025 wheras Nigeria that appeared at the mundial eight times like North Korea only won a Bronze in 2022.
North Korea walloped Puerto Rico 6-0 and Nigeria slumped to Poland 1-2 in the first round while North Korea hammered Poland 6-1 and Nigeria beat Puerto Rico 2-0 in the 2nd round matches.
North Korea, Nigeria and Poland lost a game each while Puerto Rico lost all three games. North Korea topped group B with 6 points scoring 13 goals and conceding 4; Nigeria placed 2nd with 6 points too scoring 6 goals and conceding 3; Poland also chalked 6 points scoring 9 goals and conceding 9 while Puerto Rico had no point scored 2 goals and conceded 14 goals. Poland will surely play the knockout stages as a lucky loser.
Group A will be decided at 7pm tonight. On Saturday at 4pm it will be group C when Brazil takes on Norway and Ghana faces Canada. At 9pm same Saturday, Zambia will lock horns with France and Venezuela will slug it out against Japan.
Some round of 16 fixtures are emerging:
1. Nkor vs lucky loser @4pm Wednesday
2. Ger vs lucky loser @4pm Wednesday
3 Ngr vs 2gf @4pm on Thursday
4 Spa vs 2gc @7pm on Thursday.
Eniola Olatunji reporting for Patmos Media Line.
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