Nigeria’s U-20 national team, the Flying Eagles have been paired against fellow Africa representatives, Senegal at the ongoing U-20 FIFA World Cup in Poland, Bestchoicesports.com.ng can report.

The pairing which was done Friday after the group matches were concluded will see Paul Aigbogun’s side who managed just a win in three matches take on a Senegalese side that came out winners of their group.

With the pairing, Africa is guaranteed at least a slot in the quarter-final. Their fellow representatives in the knockout out stage, Mali will have its hands full when they tackle favorite, Argentina.

Mali progressed into the knockout stage despite losing their last group match against France 2-3 Friday night.

Mali progressed with six points, bettered by France who had 9 points out of 3 matches.

South Africa which completed the four Africa representatives at the championship could not scale through the preliminaries.

Nigeria match against Senegal will hold on Monday, June 3rd by 7:30 Nigeria time while Argentina clash with Mali will hold on Tuesday June 4th by 7:30pm

Round of 16 pairings:

Senegal v Nigeria

Argentina v Mali

Italy v Poland

Colombia v New Zealand

Uruguay v Ecuador

Ukraine v Panama

Japan v Korea Republic

France v United States