Nigeria beaten by Austria at IHF Women’s U-18 World Championship 

Nigeria’s Women U-18 Handball team were soundly beaten 33-14 by Austria on Tuesday in a classification competition tagged President Cup at the IHF Women’s U-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 fast breaks 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