Nigeria’s Super Falcons have been beaten in their opening game at the 2011 Women’s World Cup in Germany. They were beaten 1-0 by France in an entertaining first match of the tournament.<\/p>\n
Marie-Laure Delie got the only goal of the game to give France a strong chance of progressing from a group which also contains the hosts Germany and Canada. Nigeria performed well in defence and created plenty of chances but could not find the final touch.<\/p>\n
They now find themselves bottom of the group, but coach Eucharia Uche has not given up hope of being able to make progress. “The girls played a great game, we were just unfortunate,” she said. “We will go back and work on our finishing because if we had converted our chances we would have been looking at a victory.”<\/p>\n
France started brightly and Nigeria goalkeeper and captain Precious Dede was put under considerable pressure, with Louisa Necib of Lyon creating plenty of opportunities down the left.<\/p>\n
But the Super Falcons defence did a good job of keeping the French at bay and it was 0-0 at halftime. France finally broke the deadlock early in the second period, when a rare example of poor Nigeria defending allowed Delie to control a loose ball in the box and fire home to make it 1-0.<\/p>\n
The Super Falcons contributed greatly to an entertaining game played in front of a decent crowd of more than 25,000 in Sinsheim. They will now prepare to play Germany and then Canada in their remaining pool A games – Germany beat Canada 2-1 in their game on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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