Falconets urged to thump Tunisia

Football | Nigeria

Nasarawa Amazons coach, Obi Ogbala has charged the Falconets to go for comprehensive victory against their Tunisian opponents in Saturday's second round first leg fixture of the 2014 Fifa Under-20 Women's World Cup qualifying match at the Abuja National Stadium.
The Nigerian campaigners were ruthless against West African foes, Sierra Leone hitting the side 16-0 on aggregate in the first round while Tunisia humbled North African neighbours, Morocco 8-1 on aggregate to pave the way for the weekend clash.

The reverse fixture is expected to hold in Tunis in a fortnight while the winners will have be a game away towards qualifying for the biennial global football fiesta holding in Canada.
Ogbala said though the North African challengers do not command intimidating profile in the game in Africa he however insisted that the Falconets should not underrate the side or allow any opportunity to win massively slip off their hands.

"The Falconets should approach the encounter as if there won't be a second leg in Tunisia by winning the tie convincingly so as to make the reverse fixture more or less a mere formality.
"They should erase the memory of the whitewash of the Sierra Leoneans from their minds and focus at achieving another massive win, score as many goals as possible.

"The Tunisians have demonstrated their capacity to score goals against Morocco so the Falconets shouldn't postpone any opportunity to roundly kill off the side right there in Abuja.
"I'm certain the side have quality not only to unsettle the Tunisians in both legs but to go ahead to pick the World Cup ticket for Nigeria.

"But the attack must be up and doing to convert every chance at goal, they should be clinical at goal," said Ogbala who guided his wards to second finish at the 2013 Women's Federation Cup competition to supersport.com.

The Falconets ended as semifinalists at the 2012 Fifa Under-20 Women's World Cup in Japan.