Asisat Oshoala is Nigeria’s star player but she won’t be starting against Germany in the quarter-final of the FIFA Women’s World Cup in France.
The match which will be played at Stade des Alpes is Nigeria’s biggest test yet. Here are some key facts.
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The key facts
- Germany have won their two previous Women’s World Cup games against Nigeria, scoring five goals and conceding none in the process. They last met in the 2011 edition, with Germany winning 1-0 in the group stage.
- Nigeria have won just one of their past 12 Women’s World Cup matches against European nations (W1 D2 L9), beating Denmark in 1999, 2-0.
- Germany have gone three games without a win in the knockout stages of the Women’s World Cup (D1 L2), after winning seven of the eight before that (L1).
- Germany have kept three consecutive clean sheets in Women’s World Cup games, last registering a longer run of shutouts at the 2007 tournament, when they didn’t concede a single goal in their six games en route to winning the title.
- If selected for this game, striker Alexandra Popp will make her 100th appearance for Die Nationalelf, making her only the second player in the current German squad to hit that milestone after Lena Goessling (106).
