The coach of the U20 team of Argentina Javier Mascherano is confident that his team will defeat Nigeria in today’s U20 World Cup round of 16 game, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
Nigeria will be up against Argentina, who didn’t qualify for the tournament but were drafted in as host after FIFA decided to strip the hosting right off Indonesia, over their refusal to recognize one of the competing nations Israel as a country.
Argentina have responded by winning all three of their group games and head into this game in full confidence, while Nigeria will be looking to bounce back from a 0-2 defeat suffered in their final group game against Brazil.
That defeat suffered by the Nigerian team has exposed some flaws of the Nigerian team according to Mascherano, who said the way Nigeria started the tournament with wins over Dominican Republic and Italy respectively looked perfect until that game.
” They started very well with two impressive wins but in the last game they lost, we saw a thing or two tactically that we will try to take advantage of when we meet them , but we know they will fight and run with speed and skills. So we also have to be ready to fight”, he said ahead of the game.
Osas Mahawi
