Edo Queens Football Club, weekend defeated Ghana\u2019s Women League champions Ampem Darkoa Ladies FC 4-1 in a penalty shootout to win the\u00a0 WAFU-B tournament for the second time.<\/p>\n
It was a breathtaking scene in Ouagadougou on Saturday night when the\u00a0 Nigerian champions produced a spirited comeback twice to frustrate the Ghana\u2019s champions Ampem Darkoa Ladies who were yet to suffer any defeat at the tournament before the thrilling shootouts ensued.<\/p>\n
The fiercely contested final match had ended 2-2 at regulation period of 90 minutes as goals from Doosuur Anastasia Atume (4mns);Oluebube Umejiaku (90+4mns) canceled out Beline Nyarkoh 2nd and 74th minute brace.<\/p>\n
Edo Queens\u00a0 lifted the WAFU-B cup for the first time in 2024 and progressed to a 4th place finish at the CAF champions league proper in Morocco.<\/p>\n
The Nigeria\u2019s representatives\u00a0 redeemed their image with the 4-1 victory over their Ghanaian counterparts Ampem Darkoa Ladies who handed them the only defeat they suffered in the WAFU-B tournament. The group B last game ended 2-1 in favour of Ampem , topping the group ahead of Edo Queens.<\/p>\n
On the road to the finals,Edo Queens at the semi-finals stage,recorded an overwhelming 5-1 victory over the host Country\u2019s USFA just as Ampem Darkoa Ladies spanked Benin Republic\u2019s FC Dynamique 4-1 to advance to the\u00a0 final in the championship.<\/p>\n
The Benin girls trashed AS Garde Nationale of Niger 7-0 in their first group match and later triumphed over ASEC Mimosas of Ivory Coast 3-1 before their 2-1 loss to Ampem Darkoa Ladies in the third match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edo Queens Football Club, weekend defeated Ghana\u2019s Women League champions Ampem Darkoa Ladies FC 4-1 in a penalty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-339879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}