Two second-half targets from Adaobi Okah and Chiamaka Okuchukwu guided the Falconets of Nigeria to victory towards the Crested Cranes of Uganda within the girls’s soccer occasion of the African Video games.
Because the defending champions, this may mark Nigeria’s fourth closing look in six editions since girls’s soccer was launched to the African Video games in 2003 in Abuja.
Nigeria will now tackle both hosts Ghana or Senegal within the Gold medal match.
After a goalless first half, the African Video games defending champions left it late earlier than they went previous the Ugandans.
Substitute Okah Adaobi broke the impasse within the 74th minute, earlier than one other sub, Chiamaka Okwuchukwu, doubled the benefit a minute to full time.
The East Africans put up a giant battle, however in the long run the category of the Nigerian ladies got here by means of.
The Flying Eagles failed to succeed in the semifinal of the lads’s soccer occasion of the African Video games after they misplaced 3-2 to Senegal in a closing group sport.