Nigeria’s Super Falcons are condemned to beat Japan in their final group game and expect a favourable result in other games to stand a chance of qualifying to the next stage as one of best losers in the football event of the ongoing Olympics in Paris.
The Super Falcons lost 1-0 to Spain on Sunday- a second consecutive loss with same margin, that leaves them rooted to the bottom go Group C.
Randy Waldrum’s side lacked a finisher to convert the few chances they created, and paid for it when Spain’s Alexia Putellas scored directly from a free-kick in the last minutes of the game.
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The side lost in similar fashion to Brazil in their opening game.
In the other group game between Brazil and Japan, Momoko Tanikawa scored a stunning 96th-minute winner as Japan netted twice in injury time to come from behind and beat Brazil 2-1 in the Olympic women’s football tournament on Sunday.
Japan, the 2012 silver medallists, were staring at a second straight defeat in Group C that would have left them in serious danger of a first-round exit after Jhennifer put Brazil ahead early in the second half.
But captain Saki Kumagai rolled in a 92nd-minute penalty to equalise at the Parc des Princes in Paris before 19-year-old substitute Tanikawa’s incredible first-time shot from 30 metres sailed over the goalkeeper and in for the winner.
The result means Japan and Brazil — silver medallists in 2004 and 2008 — are now level on three points after two matches.
