“Perfect” United States of America now stand between Nigeria and a place in the quarterfinal of this year’s U20 World Cup in Argentina after the Flying Eagles finished as Third Best Losers in Group D tonight.
The Flying Eagles will now have to head back to Mendoza for their Round of 16 clash against the Americans, who won all three first round matches against Ecuador, Fiji and Slovakia in Group B.
This knockout game will be played Tuesday by 6.30pm in Nigeria.
Tonight, five-time champions Brazil stopped the Flying Eagles 2-0 to win Group D with the same six points like Nigeria, but a far superior goals difference.
Italy beat Dominican Republic 3-0 in the other match in this group to leapfrog Nigeria into second place on the back of a better goals difference.
It’s not USA it’s either Argentina or USA depending on Tunisia vs Uruguay match
I think they are right in saying USA – The USA vs 3ACD draw comes before the Argentina vs 3CDE.
As it is, Nigeria has already edged out the other third place contenders in USA vs 3ACD.
New Zealand from group A has 4 points.
Japan from group C has 3 points.
Nigeria from group D has 6 points.
But we already know the likely outcome of the match between Tunisia vs Uruguay.
If either wins, one will end up in second place with 6 points while the other ends up with 3.
If a draw, they both ends up with 4 points and retain their goal differences.
But one thing is very certain, the third-place team in group E will either end up with 3 or 4 points.