Jubilation as Nigeria Destroy Tough Opponents in Fight to Qualify for 2022 World Cup

• Nigeria's Flamingos are now on the verge of qualifying for the 2022 FIFA World Cup which will hold in India
• This comes after they defeated DR Congo 3-0 on Sunday, 6 March, in the second round of the World Cup qualifiers
• Three national teams will represent Africa at this year's World Cup in India and Nigeria will want to qualify

Nigerian Under-17 team known as Flamingos were in brilliant form on Sunday, 6 March, beating opponents from DR Congo 3-0 in World Cup qualifying tough encounter.

Blessing Emmanuel, Oluwatunmininu Adeshina and Opeyemi Ajakaye are the goalscorers for the Flamingoes as they recorded an emphatic win which will help them in the qualifiers.

Nigerian female players started the encounter impressively, but surprisingly, they had to wait until the 36th minute before scoring first goal through Blessing Emmanuel.

According to the report on Complete Sports and Gazette, it was in the 66th minute that Nigerian girls scored their second goal through Adeshina.

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DR Congo were reduced to 10 girls in the 70th minute and this helped the Nigerians to score their third goal in the 76th minute through Ajakaye.

When is the return leg between Nigeria and DR Congo?

The second leg comes up on Saturday, 19 March, in Benin City, Edo State.

When and where is the Under-17 Women World Cup?

2022 FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup will be the competition’s seventh edition and will be held in India from October 11 to 30 October.

Former Super Eagles coach attacks Eguavoen, faults list for Ghana clash in big statement

Earlier, Sports Brief had reported how former Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia frowned at the 25-man squad list released by Eguavoen for the final World Cup playoffs against Ghana in two-legged encounters.

Last week, interim coach Austine Eguavoen released the names of those invited for the two-legged ties and placed seven others on standby including Taiwo Awoniyi.

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So far this season, Taiwo Awoniyi is the leading Nigerian scorer in Europe as the former Liverpool striker is having 10 goals and was also part of the team that went to Cameroon for 2021 AFCON.

On the list released by Eguavoen, Leicester City forward Ademola Lookman got maiden call-up, while Emmnauel Dennis will be making a return to the Super Eagles having previously played 3 games.