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Nigeria’s Flamingos, continued their impressive campaign at the 2026 WAFU B U17 Girls Cup with a hard-fought 2–0 victory over Burkina Faso at the Charles Konan Banny Stadium in Yamoussoukro on Monday.
The Flamingos dominated possession and applied sustained pressure from the opening whistle, but Burkina Faso’s disciplined defence kept Nigeria at bay throughout a closely contested first half.
Despite creating several promising opportunities, Nigeria were unable to find the breakthrough before the interval, with the two sides heading into the dressing room level at 0–0.
The Flamingos returned for the second half with renewed intensity, pushing Burkina Faso deeper into their own half and creating increased pressure in the final third.
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Nigeria’s persistence eventually paid off in the 82nd minute when Mary Dunstan produced a composed finish to give the Flamingos the lead.
Burkina Faso struggled to respond as Nigeria continued to control proceedings. The result was sealed deep into stoppage time when Oluwakemi Adegbuyi found the net to make it 2–0 and secure all three points for the Nigerian side.
The victory means the Flamingos have collected a perfect nine points from three matches while maintaining their unbeaten record in the competition.
The result further boosts Nigeria’s campaign as the Flamingos turn their attention to their next fixture, looking to maintain their strong momentum and push for the WAFU B U17 Girls Cup title.
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This u17 team is very sound and miles ah better than Aduku’s team. The No 9, 14,13,15 and 8 plays Barca’s kind of football. The manner at which they manage to control the pace of the ball in tight space and wiggle through tells a lot. I am tipping them to win the u17 World Cup bar fair officiating from racist refs.
I took am waiting to see how this Flamingos outfit fair against North Korea at the world cup.
To be honest, U20 football is miles away from U17 when it comes to technicality. Moses Aduku lost 8 players because the Polish embassy refused them visas. Who knows, a missing player like Kindness Ifeanyi could have been a game changer against Columbia.
In all, I will award Moses Aduku 5.4/10 or, to be generous 5.9/10 for his performance as a coach at the tournament.
Not able to go to extra time against Columbia and Columbia scoring late, like they did against Poland, only served to underscore Aduku’s limitations as a coach.
With a capable technical advisor by his side, Aduku can do better, go farther, rate higher in the U20 Women’s World Cup in 2 years’ time if he is retained.
I actually rate him slightly higher than the previous coach: Chris Danjuma.
The last solid female coach we had was Peter Dedevbo who came close to winning the U20 World Cup, but he was left to rotten with politically corrupt Delta Queens. Nigeria is the enemy of itself because a better country will retain this coach who lost to bias officiating against Germany in the final that year.