Nigeria’s Women Under 18 Handball team were soundly beaten 33-14 by Austria on Tuesday in a classification competition tagged President Cup at the IHF Women’s Under 18 Handball World Championship ongoing in Chuzhou, China.
The Coach Shittu Adewunmi Agboola’s tutored team played second fiddle to Austria all through the match as a result of not taking their chances which resulted in them just scoring 8 goals while their opponent scored 17 goals in the first half.
The second half was the same as they had a lot of turnovers which allowed Austria to score several of their goals from fastbreaks and the near goals to win the match 33-14.
Nigeria had 47 shots but could only score 14 goals from it and had an abysmally 30% all shots efficiency.
Nigeria will play a placement match against Chinese Taipei on Thursday at 2am WAT
