The Nigeria U17 are putting finishing touches to their preparations for the Africa U17 Cup of Nations in Morocco by playing test games at their camp in Abuja .
Coached by coach Fatai Amoo, the only team they have fail to beat so far is Simioben Academy, a Kaduna based football academy funded by Super Eagles star Moses Simon. The game ended in a 1-1 draw with the Nigerian team coming from behind.
They followed the lessons learnt from that game with a resounding 5-1 thrashing of Bayern Munich Academy made possible to a large extent by the brace scored by Ahmed Abdullahi.
Victor Udoh opened the scoring in the 46th minute, but Chinasa Maduabuchi equalised for his side in the 67th min. Ahmed Abdullahi’s sublime header sailed into the net two minutes later and he scored from the spot in the 75th to complete his brace.
Peter Asuquo was also clinical with his goal from the spot six minutes from full time, while Gideon Atoyebi hit the roof of the net in added time to complete the demolition of Bayern Munich Academy in Nigeria beyond redemption.
That win was followed with another resounding win over Emy Football Acadmey with Abdullahi once again among the goal scorers with another brace although this time around Joseph Arumala also weigh in with a brace.
Joseph Arumala opened the flood gate of goals in the 7th minute jabbing the ball into the net and Samuel Akere’s ferocious shot outside the box hit the roof of the net six minutes later.
Christian Nwachukwu had his name on the scores sheet with his low drive that found the back of the net in the 16th minute.
The game was completely under the control of the Eaglets as their opponents had no answer to the fluid football of the Eaglets and they were tormented with another goal by Ahmed Abdullahi in the 29th minute.
Arumala completed his brace in the 39th minute, while it was the turn of Abdullahi to have his brace in the 42nd minute.The first half ended with Eaglets in super goals scoring mood of 6-0.
However on resumption, Emy Football Academy marshalled out strong defensive tactics which made Eaglets to only add a goal through Stanley Iheanacho in the 74th minute to make it 7-0.
As they get set to begin their group matches at the tournament against the likes of Algeria, Congo and Tanzania. One thing is sure. Goal scoring isn’t one of their problems.
