Nigeria’s Super Falcons battle former champions Norway at the 2019 Women’s World Cup in France, in a potentially explosive Group A encounter at the Stade Auguste-Delaune, Reims on Saturday (today).
The African champions suffered their worst humiliation at the World Cup in 1995, an 8-0 defeat in the hands of the Norwegians, who emerged champions of that year’s edition.
Now, the Nigerians, ranked 38th in the world, and making their eighth appearance at the tournament, would be hoping to pay their European counterparts back in their own coin, 24 years later.
The game comes up 8pm Nigerian time at the Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims.
With no injury worries going into their opening game, the Falcons will be heading into the game with loads of confidence after emerging victorious in their last seven games, scoring 31 goals and conceding just three.
