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Saturday 13 August 2016

Rio 2016: John Mikel Obi scores as Nigeria demolish Denmark 2-0. To play Germany in semi-final (photos)

Nigeria's Under 23 team at the Rio 2016 Olympics have qualified to the Semi-finals of the tournament and stand a high chance of winning a medal after defeating Denmark 2-0.

Team captain John Mikel Obi continued his sensational display at the tournament with a man of the match performance and scored Nigeria's first goal in the 16th minute after a cutback pass by Imoh Ezekiel.
 

In the 27th minute, Nigeria's goalkeeper Emmanuel Daniel saved from point-blank range as Denmark went in search of an equalising goal. 

Amuzie's  shot was shoved off for a corner by the Denmark goalkeeper and the resulting corner kick taken by Mikel Obi was put in the net by Aminu Umar in the 59th minute.

Denmark looked clueless and found it hard to penetrate Nigeria's defence and coach Samson Siasia will be proud to have kept a clean sheet as the African powerhouse qualified for the Semi-final stage.

Nigeria will now play Germany in the semifinal of Rio 2016.

More photos.

56 comments:

Juliet Iwobi said...

RIo 2016 is goimg to be full of surprises



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Unknown said...

They tried... Buh... Germany ain't small team..

imma said...

way to go guysss... goood luckk. bring em medals...

Unknown said...

Congrats boys

Unknown said...

Ok nah

Unknown said...

Our boys has done very good, at least we will make it to 3rd place, because i fear those 'German boys'. lol.....

Anonymous said...

hope they have paid them

Unknown said...

Awwwww!!! Mikel Hurting like Fire! Congrats Guys...

Unknown said...

My Chelsea Mikel is the Boss...congrats guys

Healthwise said...

nice one ...wish teamNigeria gold

Unknown said...

CONGRATULATIONS BOYS KEEP IT UP

Unknown said...

Like play like play this boys are climbing o!!! Good luck to them..
If u find any of my comment annoying, feel free to disclose your identity when replying me back.. I don't have time for anonymous clap back because they don't exist. Thank u!!!

Unknown said...

When I saw demolished I thought he scored up to 6 goals....well, they really tried as a team though.

Unknown said...

Mikel congratulations....but u no for do dis for dis yeye country

Genny's Blog said...

He is really doing well this season.Olga's prayer is really working for him.






says, Genevieve.

Unknown said...

Wow... Congratulations to us and Bravo guys for making us proud against all odds! #KeepFlying

walter said...

mikel the man

walter said...

mikel the man

Unknown said...

Really? Really?

Unknown said...

Congrats guys

Rachael said...

Congratulations guys and Good luck.

Unknown said...

i don't understand. Are senior players allowed in this U23 competition? Mikel is 29 !

Unknown said...

Obi is 29 wetin he dy do for u23 abi he don c cut comot for he age again

Unknown said...

Obi is 29 wetin he dy do for u23 abi he don c cut comot for he age again

Anonymous said...

job well done! deji olaluwe's blog

Unknown said...

Lol..mikEl is 17yrs.

Unknown said...

To play above age player is curuption. Please pass the message to buhari.

CHICODGREAT said...

God in control...expecting a Gold medal

Mimiebrown said...

Congrats guys

Unknown said...

Shame on NFF this was only achieved by the Siasia led boys God's given effort

Anonymous said...

Each team is allowed 3 over 23yrs players.

Anonymous said...

Biafrans

chibaby helen said...

Up Niger,

GoodEnough said...

Chierika Ukogu won silver medal for Nigeria in Rowing and there's no love sent out to her?

Anonymous said...

Go for gold guys now my biggest fear is those German machines

Anonymous said...

When you don't have sense, how will you know?

Anonymous said...

Its obvious you don't understand Olympic rules

Segun Adegoke said...

Congrats to the Siasia led boys. Wish them the Gold medal at Rio.

Unknown said...

Mumu

Unknown said...

That shows u don't knw anything about football

Unknown said...

Mumu shut and get ur deformed as informed...each team is allow to come to olympics with 3 senior players..neyma is the captain of Brazil dude is not 23

Unknown said...

Congratulations boys, u guys should keep it up

Anonymous said...

This clearly shows that most of you who make comments here are not informed. Olympics allows for 3 over aged players in every team and Mikel is one of them.

Unknown said...

Ezekiel and Aking played out their lives. God bless dem. Linda take note!

Unknown said...

Ezekiel and Ekong played out their lives. Linda take note!

Chygo said...

Nigeria heading to finals..

Chygo said...

All the way to the final.. Goodluck boiz..

Chygo said...

Nigeria heading to finals..

Unknown said...

Bravo

@cxdevine said...

Olympics football rules allows each team to field three over age players. Just like we had Uche Okechukwu, Daniel Amokachi and Emmanuel Amuneke as our over aged players in Atlanta '96 Olympics.

Mr Possible said...

That's great. TeamNigeri go for the Gold. I believe you can do it. Check it out www.sabtrends.com

Unknown said...

Nice one

Unknown said...

heya
-D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds

Unknown said...

I think he recently published his name as Mikel John Obi

sholetoga said...

Up team Nigeria, go for the gold. God's grace will continue to be with you all

Unknown said...

Hmmmmmmm

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