In FIFA Women's World Cup, the match between two teams Nigeria vs Canada has started. The players of both teams are trying hard to score goals. However, I like the performance of Canada team players. It seems that Canada can score anytime. If Nigeria does not play well today, the chances of winning today's match will be very small. So far, the players of both teams have not scored any goals. If there is no goal in today's match, the match is likely to be a draw. If the players of Canada team Can play well, maybe Canada can win. Nothing is understood until the game is over.
Canada has more dominance in this match, and they should be able to win here. But a cool performance from Chiamaka Nnadozie made all of Canada's chances for nothing. TBH, I wasn't surprised to see her cool performance, because she came from Paris FC, which is ranked third in the French women's league, below Lyon and PSG.
In their next game (Nigeria) will meet Australia, which is one of the strongest teams in this World Cup, maybe it will be very difficult for Nigeria to hold a draw like they did against Canada.
It's a tough group for Nigeria indeed, but they are not to be written off just yet, Australia needed a penalty to win against Ireland, and I'm very sure that Nigeria would be a tougher opponent for Australia than Ireland was.
Nigeria missed a couple of their best players today especially Rasheedat who plays for Atletico Madrid (w) team, but still put up a decent fight against a strong Canadian side, and I believe the draw is actually a positive start for Nigeria, a win against either Australia or Ireland would sure put them in a decent chance of qualifying for the round of 16, I'm still proud of their performance today and I hope they improve on their ball distribution and chances creation before the next match.
Honestly a draw vs Canada is a good result for Nigeria though. Playing out a draw with Canada in women football, I think Nigeria need to even celebrate it. Overall, it was a good performance by the Falcons. They should have won but there was no connection between the midfield and the attack, they have to improve. Nigerian attack always loses idea once they reach the half line. Going forward they should beat the Irish if all goes well and try getting a result vs the Aussies, and I think that’d be the problem.
Thats a good result indeed for Nigeria against a top team like Canada. Many thought
a Canadian win was inevitable.
Another interesting one today Spain v Costa Rica - a similar sort of match up, a top
side Spain v's a much lower ranked Costa Rica but as joker_josue says the results
be unpredictable.
We had already said here that women's football is very unpredictable. And we already had the first surprise in this World Cup, with New Zealand winning.
Of course, it will be easier from the second round onwards, as we have already seen how the teams are playing, but it will be a World Cup with several surprises.
One thing is for sure, we shouldn't compare countries as it happens in men's football. A country that is good at masculine is not necessarily good and feminine. We have to stay tuned and analyze more details.
Thing is though, if you look at the too 10 ranked in the world we see some familiar
countries, Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, France, England and Spain!
