Nigeria delivered a stunning performance that sent the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia out of the 24th edition of the World U20 Male Football tournament holding in Chile with a 3-2 thriumph on Friday morning.
The country’s under 20 squad defeated Saudi Arabia 3-2 , courtesy of a late penalty converted by the team captain, Daniel Bamayi .
Then Defender Bamawi clearly handled the ball in the box while attempting to ward off Agada in an aeriel battle and team Captain Daniel Bamayi whose error caused the lone goal loss to Norway, brilliantly tucked it into goal for the match to go into heightened tension and aggression from the KSA boys that left the pitch with a probable high blood pressure and depression realizing they are out of the tournament despite an outstanding match.
Thus Columbia that earlier played goalless with Norway tops group F with 4 points scoring a lone goal and having a clean slate; Norway is 2nd with 4 points scoring one goal and also with a clean slate; Nigeria is 3rd with 3 points scoring 3 goals and conceding 3 while KSA is yet to chalk a point scored 2 goals and conceded 4.
Nigeria needs to beat Columbia on Sunday at midnight Nigerian time to be absolutely sure of a ticket to the knockout stages , that same time, the curtain will be drawn on group F KSA tackling Norway to make a point.
In group E, high scoring USA, left it late winning from the bench, to cage the Les Blues Junior 3-0 scoring in the 85th minute through Zavier Gozo, introduced in the 62nd minute; he connected Midfielder Brooklyn Raines to score the 2nd goal in the 88th minute before Ecuador born Marcos Zambrano, who came in 75th minute topped it up with a lone strike, two minutes,added time .
USA topped group E with 6 points , scoring 12 goals and conceding one goal; South Africa had thrashed New Caledonia 5-0 to come 2nd with 3 points, scoring 6 goals and conceding 2; France is 3rd with 3 points ,scoring 2 goals and conceding 4 while New Caledonia has no point scoring one goal and conceding a whopping 14 goals.
