Nigeria's Golden Eaglets cruised past Iran 4-1 in one of the round of 16 matches at the ongoing Fifa Under-17 World Cup on Tuesday to set up a quarterfinal meeting with Uruguay.
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Samuel Okon, Kelechi Iheanacho, Musa Muhammed and Musa Yahaya got the goals for the Nigerians before Ali Gholizadeh scored Iran's consolation.
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Iheanacho barely allowed the game to settle down when he tried from range but his effort went off target to the relief of Iran's goalkeeper, Mahdi Amini.
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The Eaglets from then on swung into full gear moving swiftly on and off the ball with Yahaya orchestrating most of the moves from the middle with Iheanacho's help.
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On 23 minutes, a sweeping move by the Nigerians led to the opening goal. Yahaya threading the ball nicely into the path of wing back Okon who just rolled it past Amini.
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And before the Nigerian fans could settle down from celebrating Okon's goal, Iheanacho struck with his sweet left foot two minutes later.
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Taiwo Awoniyi, who has been starting in the absence of injured Success Isaac, lined the ball for Iheanacho, who side-footed from the edge of the box for Nigeria's second of the evening.
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But Iheanacho had to make way for Chidera Ezeh owing to a knock and that substitution of the Nigerian playmaker did not halt the offensive play of the Africans.
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Just before the break, Nigeria captain, Muhammed made it three-nil. The right-back pounced on a poor defending to smash home his second goal of the tournament.
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After taking a three-goal lead into the break, Nigeria somehow took their foot off the pedals but kept it tight at the back.
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In the 76th minute, Yahaya deservedly got his goal to give Nigeria a four-goal lead and also put his name among those with four goals at the tournament.
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However, the game was not done with goalscoring as Iran's substitute, Gholizadeh got a sight of goal from range and hit the ball hard past Nigeria goalkeeper Dele Alampasu who stood no chance of stopping his pile-driver.