Nigeria's Falconets defeated Algeria 3-0 on Monday in Rabat to book the ticket to the gold medal match of the 2019 African Games.<\/p>\n
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Nigeria’s Falconets defeated Algeria 3-0 on Monday in Rabat to book the ticket to the gold medal match of the 2019 African Games.<\/p>\n
Cynthia Aku opened scoring in the 16th minute, when she headed home a cross from inside the box.<\/p>\n
She netted again in the 26th minute after she was set up by skipper Gift Monday.<\/p>\n
Zainab Olapade scored the third goal on the stroke of full time.<\/p>\n
The Nigerian women dominated the semi-final from start to finish with the North Africans pegged back to their own half of the pitch.<\/p>\n
The West Africans held Cameroon to a 1-1 draw in a Group B fixture earlier in the competition.<\/p>\n
The Falconets will play either Morocco or Cameroon in the final of the competition.<\/p>\n
The coach Christopher Danjuma’s girls remain the favourites to win the gold medal in the women’s football event.<\/p>\n
Their male counterparts, the Flying Eagles, will today take on Mali for a place in the gold medal match for men.<\/p>\n
The Flying Eagles drew with Burkina Faso (1-1) and Morocco (2-2) and defeated South Africa (2-1) to reach the last four at this tournament.<\/p>\n
To the seven-time African champions, the Malians are kind of familiar customers, after both teams also clashed in the semi finals of this year’s Africa U20 Cup of Nations in Niger Republic.<\/p>\n
The encounter ended 1-1 in regulation and extra time but the Malians triumphed after penalty shoot-out.<\/p>\n
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