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Argentina made airy enactment of Nigeria successful Santiago to swagger into the quarter-finals of the ongoing FIFA U-20 World Cup Chile 2025.
They were joined by Colombia, who overcomed stubborn South African broadside successful Talca. A brace of goals successful each fractional saw Argentina surge into the past 8 and sent Nigeria packing from the tournament.
The crippled was hardly a infinitesimal aged erstwhile Alejo Sarco slid successful to pat location a Dylan Gorosito transverse with goalkeeper Ebenezar Harcourt successful nary man’s land. Diego Placente’s squad past pressed location their vantage successful spectacular benignant arsenic Maher Carrizo fired a free-kick into the bottom-right corner.
Nigeria stemmed the travel and astir got a foothold astatine the extremity of the half, with Daniel Daga chesting down and volleying from adjacent range, but Santino Barbi made a stunning left-handed save.
Argentina rapidly acceptable astir making the crippled harmless aft the restart. Milton Delgado picked Daga’s pouch connected halfway and played successful Carrizo who calmly dispatched his second. Their 4th wasn’t acold behind, with Mateo Silvetti sent scampering down the right, helium squared up Daniel Bameyi and curled a pinpoint effort beyond him into the acold corner.
The Young Albiceleste volition present instrumentality connected Mexico successful the quarter-finals.
Colombia are quarter-final bound aft topping South Africa successful Talca. The South Americans grabbed an aboriginal pb erstwhile Oscar Perea served up a transverse from the near helping that was met astatine the acold station by hard-charging Joel Canchimbo, who volleyed home.
South Africa hung pugnacious and a dense interaction from Jordan Garcia successful the opening seconds of the 2nd stanza offered a lifeline, arsenic Siviwe Magidigidi was taken down by the scrambling Colombian goalkeeper. The archetypal spot footwear was saved, but ordered to beryllium retaken and astatine the 2nd clip of asking, Mfundo Vilakazi converted.
After hitting the station earlier, Neyser Villareal scored his archetypal extremity of the tourney successful dazzling manner by taking a Perea walk and launching a right-footed rocket to reconstruct Colombia’s lead. He past tacked connected his 2nd of the time with a composed finish, cementing his side’s last 8 place. Colombia volition stay successful Talca to instrumentality connected Spain in the last eight.
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