Quarter-finals

Nigeria vs Denmark

Date: 13 Aug 2016 -

16:00 Local time (8:00PM Nigerian Time)

Venue: Fonte Nova Arena (55,000 capacity stadium)

City: Salvador


http://www.fifa.com/mensolympic/matches/index.html

we will get to the final

Brazil has proved every one wrong by trashing Denmark 4-0 to top their group and qualified for the quarter finals in style.
thus its

Brazil vs Colombia

Nigeria vs Denmark

Portugal vs Germany

korea vs Honduras


lets go there..

profile: Denmark

Olympic Record

Gold has proved elusive for Denmark in their eight Men’s Olympic Football Tournament appearances before Rio, three times taking home silver and once a bronze medal. They announced their arrival on the Olympics scene with a bang, a 9-0 win against France’s B team at the 1908 games followed by a 17-1 demolition of their first team. They were defeated in that Gold Medal match by Great Britain, as they were four years later. Third place would follow in 1948, along with another fall at the final hurdle in 1960, this time to Yugoslavia. The Danes’ most recent appearance came in 1992, with the likes of Thomas Helveg and Per Frandsen unable to see them out of their group, departing without a win from their three games.

The Road to Rio
Denmark surprised many by topping their group, which included much-fancied Germany, at the 2015 UEFA U-21 European Championship in the Czech Republic. They did so despite a defeat to the Germans, with victories over the hosts and Serbia seeing them top Group A to reach Rio, and set up a semi-final showdown with Nordic rivals Sweden. They were humbled by their neighbours, but captain Jannik Vestergaard, playmaker Viktor Fischer and forward Rasmus Falk were among those who caught the eye at the finals.

Former stars
Nils Middelboe (1908, 1912, 1920), Charles Buchwald, Sophus Nielsen (1908, 1912), John Hansen (1948), Harald Nielsen (1960), Thomas Helveg (1992)

The stat
18 – Denmark’s 17-1 victory over France in their second Men’s Olympic Football Tournament match in 1908 is the highest-scoring game in the history of the competition.


Douglas Santos of Brazil competes for the ball with Frederik Borsting of Denmark

I see Nigeria team advancing pass quarter finals.
May God help us



Drabeey Was Here

Denmark will win 2-1.

full time score 2:2 then Nigeria will win the game in extratime.. Final score Nigeria 3 Denmark 2.

Rio 2016: Nigeria avoid Brazil, but face 'Nemesis' Denmark
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Nigeria have avoided hosts Brazil, but will come up against Denmark, who spanked them 6-2 in a recent friendly, for a place in the last four of Rio 2016 Olympics at the weekend.

Home team Brazil finally turned on the style to trounce Denmark 4-0 in a final group game to finish top of Group A with five points.

They will now face fellow South Americans Colombia, who stunned Nigeria 2-0 in a final Group B match in Sao Paulo.

Nigeria won the group on six points to now take on Denmark Saturday night in Salvador.

Confidence will now be in short supply in coach Samson Siasia’s team after the way and manner they lost to Colombia and this will most certainly not be helped by the fact that in June they fell badly to the Danes 6-2 at the Suwon international Tournament in South Korea.

The argument though will be that the team to Korea were largely experimental and only a handful of them made it to Brazil.

Also, the stakes are a lot higher at Rio Olympics because victory at the weekend will catapult them into the medal zone of the summer games, where they will battle the winners of the quarterfinal between Portugal and Germany.

It would also be recalled that another rampant Danish side had dismissed the Super Eagles 4-1 on a most forgettable day at the 1998 World Cup in France.

In other quarterfinals, Portugal battle Germany in Brasilia and Korea Republic take on surprise team Honduras in Belo Horizonte.

the last time
Nigeria vs Denmark meet this year


Nigeria U23 2 - 6 Denmark U21 Highlights (Suwon International Tournament)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlnmjBgW2c0

Head-to-head records of Nigeria against Denmark

28 Jun 1998 Nigeria v Denmark 1-4 FIFA World Cup


2016 Nigeria U23 v Denmark U23 2-6 (Suwon International Tournament)

Dream Team VI: Etebo injury could cost Siasia dearly


There is arguably little that can be gleaned from the tepid affair at Sao Paulo. Sure, it meant a lot to Colombia, for whom the 2-0 win represented passage to the next round, where they will face Brazil. For Nigeria though, it afforded the luxury of resting the most important players for more stringent tasks to come, with both qualification and group classification secure.

Or so you would think.

Instead, Samson Siasia has on his hands the very real prospect of facing Denmark in the quarter-final without the competition’s second top scorer in Oghenekaro Etebo. It may well turn out that his injury is more benign than is feared at the moment, but the image of him being wheeled out of the Arena Corinthians is a hard one to dismiss out of hand.


The 18-man squad limit leaves little wiggle room for tourists and, while not seeking to reduce a collective sport to a team one, it is entirely within reason to note that some players serve more important functions within the team than others.

It was puzzling then to see youngster Sadiq Umar bound about the pitch for every minute of the 90, losing his discipline and motor coordination incrementally with each step, while Junior Ajayi twiddled his thumbs on the bench.

Spare a thought for Azubuike Okechukwu, who has played every minute of every game for this team, stretching back to pre-tournament warm-ups. While the medics ministered to the stricken Etebo, he engaged in frenzied conversation with Ndifreke Udo, leaning on the Abia Warriors man for support, eyes bloodshot.

Team captain Mikel John Obi has started all three games as well, and was on till the very end this time, while Siasia saw fit to make a like-for-like substitution at left-back!


Perhaps we have an unfair advantage, being able to employ hindsight and pontificate after the fact. However, the notion of a communist, egalitarian work distribution within every football team is a quaint one: the marginal loss from losing, say, a right-back will always be less than losing a team’s top goalscorer.

You do, after all, have to guide the ball into the goal to win a game--all animals are equal, George Orwell teaches, but some are more equal than others.

Then again, isn’t it just like Siasia to imbue with maximum risk a situation that was inherently risk-averse?

With nothing to play for whatsoever, and from a position of strength, the team’s biggest attacking producer is now a doubt. Even allowing for his freakishly precise finishing from the opener against Japan regressing to a logical mean in the following games, Etebo’s importance within this team is glaring.

Sadiq can finish, but serves more as the catenary adhesive that holds this team’s occasionally fragmented attacking play together, while Imoh Ezekiel’s strengths are applied more toward stretching the play and taking on the full-back on the right.

Going by what we witnessed of Aminu Umar last night, there is little hope that he can replicate Etebo’s goalscoring or movement. His contribution almost seemed to belie the bated breath with which his arrival to camp was awaited--clunky and unimaginative in possession, clumsy and ineffectual out of it. If the Samunspor man is all we can look forward to, then our turkey is well and truly cooked.

He was not alone though. None of the entrants into the team acquitted themselves with any real distinction: the full-back positions were again manned by the combination of a central midfielder playing out of position and a full-back who cannot defend--this just happened to be a less comfortable batch.

It takes some doing to make yourself less desirable than a goalkeeper who has conceded four goals already and is yet to make a save in the tournament; somehow, Akpeyi, brought in for his experience (no joke), managed it.

In the end, there were no lessons to be garnered in Sao Paulo, only regrets and a few hours knocked off a good night’s sleep.

Saturday’s appointment with the Danes seems a soft landing; they were comically hapless against the hosts Brazil, offering next to no attacking threat whatsoever. That said, they did beat a largely experimental Nigeria 6-2 in a friendly leading up to the tournament.

The Dream Team look in rather more robust health now but, just like in Suwon, may crucially be unable to call on one of its most important players.

http://www.goal.com/en-ng/news/17742/olympics/2016/08/11/26406492/dream-team-vi-etebo-injury-could-cost-siasia-dearly?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter&ICID=HP_HN_1

My darling dream team please keep the flag flying

No room for mistakes against Denmark, says Siasia:

The tactician was not pleased with his boys performance against Los Cafeteros and insists they must tighten up at the back against Denmark

Samson Siasia has warned Nigeria U23 they cannot make any mistakes in Saturday's Olympics quarter final game against Denmark if they are to progress in the tournament.

The Dream Team VI bowed 2-0 to Colombia in their last group game and the tactician says there must be improvements else get bounced out.

“Of course when you make too many changes, it won't work the way you expected,” said Siasia.

“Going into the knockout stage, that's a different ball game. If you lose, you go home, so all those mistakes we have been making mostly in the backline have to be corrected.

“We didn't do a good job on the Colombian forwards. We really have to work harder on our defending.

"In the first half, we had a couple of good chances and Etebo had a very good one that he should have scored. But one good thing about him is that he always put himself in good positions.

“He didn't score today; that's football. Hopefully, in the next game, we can convert our chances and defend better."

UPDATE: Nigeria Olympic team resume training after pay strike - NFF
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According to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), the country’s Olympic team have returned to training after they skipped training and threatened to boycott Saturday’s quarterfinal against Denmark over payments.

The Nigerian sports minister Solomon Dalung and NFF president Amaju Pinnick moved quickly to douse discontentment in the team camp, an official NFF statement disclosed.

Pinnick said he has spoken with coach Samson Siasia and that the team would certainly be in high spirit for the clash with the Danes at the Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador on Saturday evening.

“I just finished a long telephone discussion with Siasia and I explained to him the situation the NFF is in and why he has not received his salary,” the NFF boss said.

“As I explained last week, we received some money from CAF and I directed that the money be used to offset the salaries of the U23 team coaches and also for the Super Falcons’ coaches.

“The money has come into the NFF account, but it has to first go into our TSA (Treasury Single Account) before we can access it and then use it. The vouchers for the payment have already been done.

“Siasia confirmed that before I spoke to him, the NFF general secretary had also called him to explain the situation to him.

“We are not unmindful of what our coaches are going through in this challenging period and we praise them for their patriotism and hard work despite all these.”

Pinnick also commended the Sports Minister for his concern for the team’s welfare.

“I want to specially appreciate the Honourable Minister, Barrister Solomon Dalung, who had already dispatched accountants to the U23 team hotel to pay the allowances of players and officials before I called the team,” he said.

“The minister instructed the accountants to also pay the four alternate players, who are not accredited for the Games. We commend him for his efforts.”

cc: lalasticlala
http://africanfootball.com/news/637260/UPDATE-Nigeria-Olympic-team-resume-training-after-pay-strike-NFF

we will boycott.

Ok...with the way this government is treating this I just hope the perform well , that if the won't boycott the match. 8pm Thank God

I pray them beat Denmark not for revenge but to qualify to semi finals, good luck guys

Let's go there

I hope they give us a medal. Any one will do.

Some posters above me indirectly hoping for a win for Nigeria because of their tickets.....but it is hard to see Denmark winning this one but then, this is Football! Anything is possible....Wish the Eaglets best of luck.

robosky02:
profile: Denmark

Olympic Record

Gold has proved elusive for Denmark in their eight Men’s Olympic Football Tournament appearances before Rio, three times taking home silver and once a bronze medal. They announced their arrival on the Olympics scene with a bang, a 9-0 win against France’s B team at the 1908 games followed by a 17-1 demolition of their first team. They were defeated in that Gold Medal match by Great Britain, as they were four years later. Third place would follow in 1948, along with another fall at the final hurdle in 1960, this time to Yugoslavia. The Danes’ most recent appearance came in 1992, with the likes of Thomas Helveg and Per Frandsen unable to see them out of their group, departing without a win from their three games.

The Road to Rio
Denmark surprised many by topping their group, which included much-fancied Germany, at the 2015 UEFA U-21 European Championship in the Czech Republic. They did so despite a defeat to the Germans, with victories over the hosts and Serbia seeing them top Group A to reach Rio, and set up a semi-final showdown with Nordic rivals Sweden. They were humbled by their neighbours, but captain Jannik Vestergaard, playmaker Viktor Fischer and forward Rasmus Falk were among those who caught the eye at the finals.

Former stars
Nils Middelboe (1908, 1912, 1920), Charles Buchwald, Sophus Nielsen (1908, 1912), John Hansen (1948), Harald Nielsen (1960), Thomas Helveg (1992)

The stat
18 – Denmark’s 17-1 victory over France in their second Men’s Olympic Football Tournament match in 1908 is the highest-scoring game in the history of the competition.


Douglas Santos of Brazil competes for the ball with Frederik Borsting of Denmark

i beggi Olympics is different, dem never pay the players their bonus sef,might boycott the match

I hope they go into the game with a clear mind & come out triumphant considering the NFF allowance saga...9ja sports & its many dramas

Heard they're owed some allowances. Someone should pls informed the president of the united states of Nigeria about it. Na who shop dey see front.


Meanwhile, me wish them flawless victory.

They better boycott the match instead of loosing.

wish Naija can just win this jere


Anyways


Drabeey was here

I pray they win and put aside solomon dalung and apc rubbish as a whole.....Buhari and his Ministers been putting us to shame since 1940

Bring home the gold medal boys. You can do it. Nigerians are behind you. God is ahead of you. Best of luck

I don't know why I am perturbed.

But I have this weird feeling that what happened in France 98 might end up repeating itself.

Is it just in my head?.

I hope we advance all the way to the final and clinch the trophy.