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Suwon: Denmark compound U-23 Eagles woes with 6-2 win

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Suwon: Denmark compound U-23 Eagles woes with 6-2 win
The Danish national Under -23 team on Saturday compounded the woes of Nigeria’s U-23 Eagles with a 6-2 humiliation thereby handing the African champions their second straight loss at the Suwon International Tournament in Korea.
Coach Samson Siasia who made some changes after the team’s 1-0 loss to South Korea on Thursday

, didn’t envisage the outcome of the match as his players failed to live up to expectation.

Starting on a bad note, the team  conceded a penalty in the 7th minutes when Erhun Obanor handled the ball in the area but goalkepper Emmanuel Daniel saved the day for Nigeria by stopping Nicolai Brock-Madsen effort.
Taiwo Awoniyi almost gave Nigeria the lead in the 13th and 18th minute respectively but on both occassion the Danish backline stood firm to thwart the Liverpool man.
The Danes seized the initiative and deservedly went ahead in the 26th minute when Obanor turned in a pull out into the Nigerian net in an attempt to clear the danger.
Emil Larsen scored twice in four minutes to give the Danes a 3-0 lead going into the half time break despite Siasia making two substitutions in an attempt to curtail the rampant Danes.
Larsen got his hattrick in the 54th minute to take the scores to 4-0 just three minutes after Awoniyi missed another sitter for Nigeria.
Two minutes after the hour mark Patrick Da Silva piled further misery on the Nigerians scoring to bring scores to 5-0 in favour of the Danes leaving the Nigerians rattled.
The woes of the Nigerians was finally compounded with 15 minutes left to play when Emiliano Marcondes slotted home the sixth goal for Denmark.
Abdulrahman Taiwo scored twice in the last five minutes of the game reducing the deficit to 6-2 in what was a woeful display by the Nigerian team who are set to campaign at the Olympic games in Rio.
Nigeria U-23s vs Denmark:
Emmanuel Daniel (Mohammed Yusuf 73) – Sincere Seth, Julius Emiloju (Tonbara Tiongoli 73) , Erhun Obanor, Saturday, Ndifreke Effiong (Stanley Amuzie 45),  Azubuike Okechukwu (Skipper), Usman Mohammed, Nathan Oduwa (Abdulrahman 45), Stanley Dimgba (Godwin Saviour 45), Taiwo Awoniyi (Ubong Ekpai 73)
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