Dominican Republic 2024: Liberia stun Senegal to set up date with Flamingos
Senegal got a stunning sucker punch and were thrown out of the race for this year’s FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup finals after hosts Liberia stormed powerfully to a 2-0 win in Monrovia on Sunday to overturn a 1-3 first-leg deficit.
The Young Maidens of Teranga were the favourites going into the second leg in the Liberia capital, but Louise Brown got the hosts in front in added time of the first half, and Dalphine Glao made it two nine minutes into the second half to throw the camp of the visitors into apprehension.
There were to be no further goals but the Liberian girls scraped through to the final round of the qualifiers on the away-goal rule and will host Nigeria in the first leg on Saturday, 8th June. The return leg comes up a week later at the MKO Abiola National Stadium, Abuja.
The Flamingos won a bronze medal at the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in India under the tutelage of coach Bankole Olowookere.
Liberia on the other hand is on the path of history ahead of the fourth and final round of the qualifiers.
They hope to become the first-ever Liberian national football team to qualify for any FIFA World Cup.
