Nigeria’s Flying Eagles suffered a 2–0 defeat to Burkina Faso of their closing Group B fixture of the WAFU B U‑20 AFCON qualifiers on the Lycée Scientifique de Yamoussoukro.
Regardless of the loss, Softfootball gathered Nigeria have executed sufficient to progress to the knockout stage and can now face Ivory Coast within the semi‑finals, with a spot on the U20 Africa Cup of Nations at stake.
Burkina Faso began strongly and broke the impasse within the twenty third minute. A harmful nook kick was delivered into the Nigerian field, permitting a Burkina Faso participant to rise above the defence and head the ball into the web.
The West African facet prolonged their lead 13 minutes later with a spectacular free‑kick from round 30 yards. The hassle sailed past the Flying Eagles goalkeeper and located the again of the web to place Burkina Faso firmly in management.
Nigeria went into the interval two targets down and returned for the second half decided to discover a method again into the competition.
The Flying Eagles pushed ahead and dedicated extra gamers to the assault, however they struggled to create significant probabilities towards a nicely‑organised Burkina Faso defence.
Regardless of their efforts, Nigeria couldn’t discover a breakthrough as Burkina Faso maintained their defensive self-discipline to see out the victory.
The Flying Eagles will now shift their focus to the semi‑finals, the place they may meet Ivory Coast. Victory in that encounter will assure Nigeria qualification for the U20 Africa Cup of Nations.
