Nigeria\u2019s Flying Eagles on Monday lost 0-1 to their Gambian counterparts in the semi-finals of the ongoing Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.<\/p>\n
The match which was played at the Cairo International Stadium saw the Nigerian side dominating the encounter with 62 per cent possession as against the Gambians\u2019 38 per cent.<\/span><\/p>\n But they failed to hit the target and have consequently paid for it by missing out on the final match for an attempt at a record eighth title win.<\/span><\/p>\n The Flying Eagles were too casual with play in the opening minutes of the game and were eventually punished for it after seven minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n That was when Adama Bojang capitalised on a loose ball from a misdirected header in Nigeria\u2019s defence to score.<\/span><\/p>\n The Nigerian team did step up their play after going behind, dominating ball possession, creating all the dangerous plays, and putting the Young Scorpions on the back foot.<\/span><\/p>\n But the poor connection between the wingers and the strikers made it difficult for the team to equalise, even with Gambia playing with 10 men for a few minutes before the end of the game.<\/span><\/p>\n Earlier, Senegal had thrashed Tunisia 3-0 to reach the final match of the competition in the other semi-final match at the Suez Canal Authority Stadium in Ismailia.<\/span><\/p>\n The Teranga Cubs won the semi-final match emphatically after beating the Young Carthage to secure their place in the final.<\/span><\/p>\n Two goals from new FC Metz recruit Lamine Camara and a sumptuous strike by Pape Diop were enough to send Senegal to the final.<\/span><\/p>\n The three-time runners-up will now face The Gambia in the final on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n The final match is scheduled to take place at the Cairo International Stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n NAN<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nigeria\u2019s Flying Eagles on Monday lost 0-1 to their Gambian counterparts in the semi-finals of the ongoing Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6567,92,6568],"class_list":["post-12482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-gambia","tag-nigeria","tag-u-20-afcon-final"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12484,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12482\/revisions\/12484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}