Nigeria’s Falconets have beat Senegal 2-1 in the third round, second leg of the 2026 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup qualifier in Dakar on Saturday.
The win means the Falconets win 3-1 on aggregate and qualify for the final round where they will take on Malawi.
The Falconets took the lead in the 18th minute through Chinaza Kindness, who rose highest to head home a cross.
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In the 68th minute the Falconets went 2-0 up thanks to Prescious Oscar, as she headed home a corner kick.
Senegal pulled a goal back through Sokhna Pene who found the back of the net in the 76th minute.
By James Agberebi
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Congrats Falconets of Nigeria for beating the Senegalese young ladies home and away. Some nay-sayers argued that the Senegal u-20 girls are a ” goal machine” because they scored 6-0 aggregate goals against a lowly/unknown women African team and that Coach Aduku fears them hence his “talking too much” before the first leg in Abeokuta, Nigeria a week ago.
I stated then, that Nigeria did not play the same opposition- having played Rwanda u-20 women- and beat then 5-0 agrregate- in the prior round, and therefore it was wrong to understate Nigeria’s pedigree vis-vis-senegal. Like we say in local parlance, “Shoe get size,” and our Falconets have proven so by beating Senegal u-20 both home and away by 3-1.