Nigeria’s women’s football team, the Super Falcons beat Cape Verde 5-0 in the Women’s AFCON Qualifier on Thursday, November 30 at the Moshood Abiola Stadium in Abuja on Thursday.
Uchenna Kanu and Esther Okoronkwo scored two goals each while Monday Gift got a goal in the emphatic win while Monday Gift got a goal as the Super Falcons recorded an emphatic win over the minnows.
It did not take time before Kanu opened the scoring as she tapped in from close range just seven minutes into the game.
Although Cape Verde tried to equalize, goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie made a stunning 16th-minute save to deny them.
On the 25th minute, the Super Falcons’ Gift put the ball home to double the Super Falcons’ lead.
Then Kanu converted a Toni Payne cross just at the 45-minute mark to make it three for the home side.
On the 66th-minute, an effort from substitute Esther Okoronkwo who came in for Gift scored the fourth goal after Esther Akudo Ogbonna’s cross.
Okoronkwo then scored her second goal for the evening to give Nigeria a fifth goal.
The second leg of the game will be played on Tuesday in the coastal city of Praia, the Cape Verdian capital. The winner of both fixtures will feature at the 2024 WAFCON in Morrocco.
