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Spain defeated Workforce Nigeria’s Tremendous Falcons Sunday evening on the Paris 2024 Olympics girls’s occasion following a 1-0 win of their second group C match on the Stade de la Beaujoire in Nantes, France.
Coach Randy Waldrum made two adjustments to the facet that misplaced the opening match to Brazil on Thursday with Jennifer Echegini and Chinwendu Ihezuo dropped to the bench for Esther Okoronkwo and Asisat Oshoala respectively.
The defeat to Spain leaves Nigeria in a precarious scenario heading into the ultimate group sport towards the Japan facet that defeated Brazil earlier on Sunday to get their marketing campaign again on observe.
Alexia Putellas despatched Spain into the quarter-finals of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games after her exceptional late free kick sailed into the far nook of the Nigeria web to safe a slender 1-0 win.
The 2 sides had fought exhausting for supremacy in the course of the encounter, earlier than the second of high quality from the Barcelona star.
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Spain had struggled to discover a well beyond their Group C opponents with striker Salma Paralluelo having a second half objective disallowed.
Paralluelo went shut on a number of different events and Putellas had an effort cleared off the road as the sport appeared destined to finish goalless.
Nevertheless, Nigeria conceded a pointless free kick which Putellas looped over stranded goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie to seal the win.
Spain high Group C with six factors from two video games and have certified for the knockout spherical earlier than going through Brazil of their closing group sport.
In the meantime, Nigeria are pointless and might want to beat Japan of their closing match to have any probability of qualifying.
With Japan recording an unlikely victory towards Brazil within the different Group C match, Nigeria knew that gaining some extent from Spain would improve their possibilities of qualifying from the group phases.
Regardless of being placed on the again foot by the World Cup winners, Nigeria have been fast on the break and Esther Okoronkwo pressured goalkeeper Cata Coll to tip her effort away.
Spain are bidding to win the Olympic Video games title for the primary time and went nearer to opening the scoring, however Aitana Bonmati noticed her shot blocked by a overlaying defender.
