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Nigeria mislaid to South Africa 1-0 successful the semifinal of the U20 Africa Cup of Nations astatine the Suez Canal Stadium successful Ismaila, Egypt, connected Thursday evening, May 15
- Defender Tylon Smith scored the lone extremity to contradict the Flying Eagles an accidental to triumph their eighth U20 title
- Nigerians person blamed the decision connected the substitute goalkeeper Ajia Yakub who came successful for injured Ebenezer Harcourt successful the 2nd half
South Africa bushed Nigeria 1-0 to suffice for the last of the U20 Africa Cup of Nations successful Egypt.
The Amajita person present qualified for their archetypal last successful 28 years courtesy a lone extremity by Tylon Smith.
Flying Eagles midfielder Israel Ayuma won the archetypal escaped footwear conscionable 40 seconds into the match.
Forward Tahir Maigana stepped up to instrumentality it, but his effort was good saved by South African goalkeeper Fletcher Lowe.
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In the 11th minute, Nigeria threatened again from the near wing, but Clinton Jephta's effort to find Nathaniel Kparobo with a walk fell short.
Adamu Bajibir Maigari made a marauding tally down the close flank, combining good with 2 attackers. However, the last walk lacked precision, resulting successful a extremity footwear for South Africa.
The Flying Eagles had different adjacent accidental successful the 21st infinitesimal erstwhile Jephta delivered a superb cross, but Kparobo was not well-positioned to link with a header.
In the closing infinitesimal of the archetypal half, Tahir Maigana curled successful a left-footed effort from the close flank, but it missed the station by conscionable an inch.
Nigeria made a treble substitution successful the 50th minute, with Precious Benjamin and Ajia Yakub replacing Divine Oliseh and injured goalkeeper Ebenezer Harcourt.
Ajia Yakub astir handed South Africa a lifeline successful the 60th infinitesimal with a infinitesimal of sloppy goalkeeping, but skipper Neo Rapoo failed to capitalise connected the error.
Defender Tylon Smith broke the deadlock successful the 66th minute, taking vantage of Yakub's mediocre positioning aft the goalkeeper had wandered disconnected his enactment to woody with a transverse from the acold left.
Goalkeeper Fletcher Lowe denied Auwal Ibrahim successful the 80th minute, redeeming his changeable from extracurricular the punishment box.
Mixed reactions way Flying Eagles' defeat
Legit.ng compiled immoderate of the comments that trailed CAF post. Read them below:
@AllThingsSuper_ said:
"Hurtful. Didn't merit to suffer that. Poor finishing outgo the boys astatine the extremity of the day. Congratulations to South Africa!"@oblaq2030 wrote:
"Why our goalkeeper moving similar that. Yakub you anserine gan "Which benignant High work beryllium that them nary accidental instrumentality him to satellite cup. "South Africa nary play astatine each our keeper springiness them win."Prince Aebischer added:
"We mislaid our keeper and brought connected Onana."Nigeria bushed Senegal
Legit.ng earlier reported that Nigeria Flying Eagles sealed qualification for the FIFA U-20 World Cup aft a melodramatic punishment shootout triumph implicit Senegal successful the quarter-final of the CAF U-20 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON).
It took nerves of alloy and calm execution from the punishment spot for the Flying Eagles to flooded the defending champions.
Nigeria and Senegal person met respective times astatine the U-20 level arsenic the Flying Eagles defeated Senegal 3-1 successful the 2015 radical signifier and bushed them again 1-0 successful the last to assistance the title.
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