Nigeria and Ghana will represent the continent yet again at the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup after they respectively edged South Africa and Cameroon on Saturday.
The Falconets of Nigeria beat Basetsana 6-0 and 8-0 on aggregate whilst Ghana’s Princesses won 3-0 against their Cameroonian counterparts to claim the other slot 4-1 on aggregate.
Seeking their ninth successive appearance at the World Cup at the Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City, the Falconets got off to a good start with the opening goal as early as the fifth minute courtesy of Gift Monday.
In-form Rasheedat Ajibade added the second goal in the 21st minute and some five minutes later, Anam Imo also found the net following a rebound.
Six minutes later, Ajibade was back in the hunt again with her second goal of the evening and her tenth in the qualifying phase. Five minutes to the end of the first stanza, Monday was on the score sheet yet again before Imo completed got her own brace in the 73rd minute.
The Nigerians however ended the game with ten players after Monday was sent off for a second yellow card on 65 minutes.
Elsewhere, experience counted much in Cape Coast Stadium as Ghana’ two well-taken first half goals through Ernestina Abambila and Priscilla Adubea as well as a third late goal in the second half by Sandra Owusu Ansah handed the Princesses their fifth World Cup ticket after 2010, 2012 and 2014 and 2016.
The FIFA U-20 World Cup France 2018 will be played between August 5 and 24 in the French Brittany region with venues in Vannes, Concarneau, Saint Malo and Dinan-Lehon.
WEEKEND RESULTS
NPFL Day Five
Plateau Utd 1 – 0 MFM
Wikki 1 – 0 Ifeanyi Ubah
Akwa Utd 3 – 0 Kwara Utd
Lobi Stars 3 – 1 Tornadoes
Heartland 1 – 1 Yobe Desert
Katsina Utd 3 – 0 Go-Round
Rivers Utd 1 – 1 Enyimba
Abia Warriors 0 – 0 Sunshine
El-kanemi 0 – 0 Kano Pillars
ENGLISH FA CUP
Cardiff City 0 – 2 Man City
Liverpool 2 – 3 W/ Bromwich
Chelsea 3 – 0 Newcastle Utd
Sheffield Wed 3 – 1 Reading
Yeovil Town 0 – 4 Man Utd
Peterborough 1 – 5 Leicester City
Huddersfield 1 – 1 Birmingham City
Hull City 2 – 1 Nottingham Forest
Mid’Sbrough 0 – 1 Brighton & Hove
Millwall 2 – 2 Rochdale
MK Dons 0 – 1 Coventry City
Notts County 1 – 1 Swansea City
Sheffield 1 – 0 Preston North End
So’mpton 1 – 0 Watford
Wigan 2 – 0 West Ham United
Newport 1 – 1 Tottenham Hotspur
SERIE A
Sassuolo 0 – 3 Atalanta
Chievo 0 – 2 Juventus
SPAL 2013 1 – 1 Inter
Crotone 1 – 1 Cagliari
Fiorentina 1 – 4 Hellas Verona
Genoa 0 – 1 Udinese
Napoli 3 – 1 Bologna
Torino 3 – 0 Benevento
AC Milan 2 – 1 Lazio
Roma 0 – 1 Sampdoria
LA LIGA
Athletic 1 – 1 Eibar
Deportivo 2 – 2 Levante
Valencia 1 – 4 Real Madrid
Malaga 0 – 0 Girona
Villarreal 4 – 2 Sociedad
Leganes 3 – 2 Espanyol
Atletico 3 – 0 Las Palmas
Sevilla 1 – 1 Getafe
Barcelona 2 – 1 Alaves
BUNDESLIGA
Frankfurt 2 – 0 Mo’gladbach
Bayern 5 – 2 Hoffenheim
Dortmund 2 – 2 Freiburg
FC Cologne 1 – 1 Augsburg
Leipzig 1 – 1 Hamburger
Stuttgart 0 – 2 Schalke 04
Bremen 0 – 0 Hertha Berlin
Leverkusen 2 – 0 Mainz 05
Hannover 0 – 1 Wolfsburg
LIGUE 1
Dijon 2 – 1 Rennes
PSG 4 – 0 Montpellier
Angers 1 – 0 Amiens
Guingamp 0 – 3 Nantes
Metz 2 – 1 Nice
St-Etienne 2 – 1 Caen
Toulouse 1 – 0 Troyes
Lille 2 – 1 Strasbourg
Bordeaux 3 – 1 Lyon
Marseille 2 -2 Monaco
