5. Nigeria could not score from a-score-and-one set pieces
Nigeria had 21 opportunities to score from set pieces – 9 corners and 12 free kicks. None was converted and one starts to wonder if the team ever practised conversion of such chances in their several training sessions. On the contrary, France scored two goals from two corner kicks.
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I agree with all the 7 reasons why Nigeria lost to France especially the lack of corner kick preparation and the inability to defend corner kick or take corner kick. Beside the biases of the referee.