U-20 World Cup: Argentina lost to Nigeria and was eliminated

The Argentina U20 team fell 2-0 against Nigeria, at the Bicentennial Stadium in San Juan, and was eliminated from the World Cup in the knockout stages. The goals of the African cast were scored by Ibrahim Muhammad and Rilwanu Sarki at 16 and 45 minutes of the second half, respectively. After a first phase with perfect score, the team led by Javier Mascherano made merits to, at least, tie the game and even had a shot on the stick of Luka Romero, but did not know how to violate the defense of Nigeria. The Argentine team had not achieved the qualification to this contest in the South American of Colombia and could get a place when FIFA withdrew the headquarters to Indonesia and gave it to Argentina.After winning the title for the last time in Canada 2007, the national team, maximum winner of the competition with six, he only made it past the knockout stages in the 2011 Colombia edition, which finished in eighth place. Argentina did not qualify for Egypt 2009 and Turkey 2013, while in New Zealand 2015 and Coreal del Sur 2017 they said goodbye in the first round. Finally, in Poland 2019, the last tournament that could be played before the pandemic, it went in the knockout stages. Nigeria got into the top eight and will play on Saturday, June 3 at 2:30 p.m. at the Madre de Ciudades stadium in Santiago del Estero against the winner of Ecuador and South Korea, who will face tomorrow on the same stage.

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