…Kenya Beats Samora 4-0.
Round of 16 Qualifiers at a glance:
1 Nkor vs Mar @4pm Wednesday
2 Ger vs Ven @4pm Wednesday
3 Arg vs Gha @7pm Wednesday
4 Bra vs Pol @7pm Wednesday
5 China vs Fra @4pm Thursday
6 Ngr vs Mex @4pm Thursday
7 Jap vs Ken @7pm Thursday
8 Spa vs USA @7pm Thursday
The Junior Starlets of Kenya rolled herself into the four African countries that qualified for the round of 16 knockout stages on Sunday night in Morocco with a 4‐0 bashing of over whipped Samora in group E.
Bakari Mwanakombo scored a brace with the opening goal at the 4th minute and the 4th goal in the 64th minute. Awuor Brenda scored Kenya’s 2nd goal in the 44th minute and Maloba came with the 3rd goal in the 62nd minute but Lindey Atieno who would have scored the 5th goal in the 74th minute missed the penalty kick.
China meant business from the opening whistle to mess the Yankee Babes of USA beating them 3-2 as Liu Yuxi scored a brace with the opening goal and the 3rd goal in the 81st minute. Zhao llayi scored the 2nd goal in the 71st minute.
USA put up resistance scoring their 1st goal in the 69th minute through Dimaria for which the scoreboard read 1-1 but China blocked every interballistic missiles of the USA except the bullet shot of Isa Ortiz that shook the goal post in the 90+7 minute to record 3-2.
China gave Kenya 3-0 pinfall and USA made a mince meat of Samora a record 17-0 in the 1st round; China knocked Samora 7-0 and USA drubbed Kenya 6-1 in the 2nd round.
China topped group E with 9 full points scoring 13 goals and conceding 2; USA came 2nd with 6 points scoring 25 goals and conceding 4; Kenya placed 3rd with 3 points scoring 5 goals and conceding 9 while Samora expectedly is going home as most whipped in the tournament making no point, scoring no goa but conceding 28.
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Hosts Morocco, Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya are four African representatives still standing in the tournament.
The round of 16 fixtures is put above. All quarterfinal matches will be decided on Sunday 1st November. The semifinal matches will take place on Wednesday 4th November while the 3rd place match and the grand finale is on Saturday 7th November.
Eniola Olatunji reporting for Patmos Media Line.
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