Super Falcons played a goalless draw with Canada at the 20223 Women World Cup hosted by Australia/New Zealand.

Nigeria and Canada senior women football teams go toe-to-toe for the second time in one year, on Wednesday, in a closed-door training match in Malaga, Spain which amounts to the final test for both teams ahead of the Women’s Olympics football tournament starting in France in eight days.
 
The match will commence at 6.30pm Spain time (5.30pm Nigeria time) at the La Quinta Football Centre, Malaga. It also draws the curtain on the Super Falcons’ camping programme in Spain.  
 
Both teams were involved in a hard-fought FIFA Women’s World Cup Group B opener at the Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, on 21 July 2023, with the game ending 0-0. Nigeria’s goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie saved a penalty kick by veteran Christine Sinclair, and made 14 other big saves in the afternoon encounter.
 
Coach Randy Waldrum is unlikely to make many changes from the squad that played that match, though defender Ashleigh Plumptre and forward Francisca Ordega, who started that match, are not in Spain.
Waldrum will most likely stick with goalkeeper Nnadozie, defenders Osinachi Ohale, Oluwatosin Demehin, and Michelle Alozie (alongside, perhaps Chidinma Okeke), and midfielders Toni Payne, Christy Ucheibe and Deborah Abiodun.
 
The strike-force may be entirely different with captain Rasheedat Ajibade (who missed the clash with Canada, in Melbourne due to a red card that she bagged in the Women AFCON semi-final clash with Morocco, in July 2022) coming in, alongside perhaps Uchenna Kanu and Chinwendu Ihezuo.
 
The nine-time African champions will fly into France tomorrow, where they will spend a week in further training ahead of their first match of the tournament against Brazil at the Stade Bordeaux, on Thursday, July 25.
 
Nigeria’s other matches in the group phase are against Spain (July 28) and Japan (July 31), both at the Stade de la Beaujoire, in Nantes.

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