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Brazil took the lead in the 59^{th<\/sup>\u00a0 minute when substitute Boschilia shot from outside the box and his pile driver crashed against the post and into the net.\u00a0<\/u>Nigeria were lucky not to fall behind again when Marcos Guilherme missed narrowly after the Flying Eagles defence was again sliced open.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/u>In the 73^{rd<\/sup> minute, Musa Yahaya faild to power his diving header home after the Flying Eagles opened up the Brazil defence.\u00a0<\/u>Ifeanyi Matthew had a chance to draw Nigeria level in the 79^{th<\/sup> minute but his shot from inside the box sailed over the bar with the Brazil defence stranded.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBrazil increased the lead in the 82^{nd<\/sup> minute when Enaholo dropped a howler after he appeared to have saved Judivan\u2019s shot only for it to roll between his legs for a fourth goal for the South Americans.\u00a0Judivan could have netted his hat-trick in the 85^{th<\/sup> minute but the Nigeria defence rallied round to put the danger out for a corner.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Flying Eagles lost their opening FIFA U-20 World Cup match on Monday when they lost 4-2 to five-time champions Brazil at the Stadium Taranaki in New Plymouth, New Zealand. Their next Group E match is on Thursday at the same venue against North Korea. Nigeria fell behind as early as the fourth minute when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[116,144],"class_list":["post-2964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flying-eagles","tag-featured","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}}}}}}