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24 Nigeria’s Falconets began their campaign at this year’s FIFA U-20 women’s World Cup in Colombia on a perfect note after edging South Korea 1-0 in their Group D opener in the early hours of Monday.
Stade de Reim of France forward Flourish Sabastine’s late strike secured the three points for the Falconets.
Sabastine also scored a late goal for the Falconets when they defeated France 1-0 in their opening game of the 2022 U-20 women’s World Cup in Costa Rica.
The win against South Korea means the Falconets are second in Group D behind Germany, who thrashed Venezuela 5-2.
Meanwhile, the Falconets will be up against Germany in their second Group D game billed for September 4 while Korea will face Venezuela.
The Falconets dominated the opening five minutes of the encounter but could not carve out any real scoring opportunity.
In the 25th minute the Koreans went close but Folorunsho made a timely clearance.
Just two minutes later the Falconets should have broken the deadlock but Lucky missed a glorious chance.
With two minutes left in the first half Korea was presented with a decent chance but Hyeyoung failed to convert.
Then in one minute of first half stoppage time Kim Shinji saw her effort hit the post.
Just like in the first half the Falconets kicked off the second half on the front foot and almost got rewarded on 50 minutes but were denied by the Korean keeper.
The game continued to drag on with both teams making changes with nothing to show.
With seven minutes left the Koreans almost got rewarded only to be denied by Bakare who pulled off a good save.
The Falconets eventually got the breakthrough in the 86th minutes thanks to Sabastine.
In the 89th minute the Koreans almost snatched a late equalizer but Bakare came to the Falconets’ rescue with another impressive save.
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