The pre-FIFA U-20 World Cup tournament going on in Panama continues tonight with Nigeria taking on Portugual in the first game of the day, while Mexico and hosts Panama do battle two hours later.

Kick-off time for the Flying Eagles match is 7pm Panama time or 1am Thursday in Nigeria.
In a match played Monday night the Flying Eagles recorded their second successive pre-World Cup stalemate after they were held to a 0-0 draw by hosts Panama Monday night.

The home team dominated this build-up game in Panama City even though Nigeria would be right to feel hard done by referee Jaffeth Perea’s decision to disallow the two second half goals they scored.

Ahmed Musa first found the back of the net on 67 minutes, but his effort was disallowed for offside.
And seven minutes later as Nigeria piled on the pressure, Bright Ejike smashed home from a rebound after the goalkeeper failed to hold on to a Musa shot only for the referee to again overrule the goal.

”We have no reasons to challenge the referee’s decisions because his decisions are final,” said Flying Eagles coach John Obuh.

Like Nigeria, Panama will also feature at the U20 World Cup in Colombia later this month and they enjoyed more of the ball in front of about 2,000 fans at the 35,000-capacity Estadio Rommel Fernandez.

They also created more chances, but in Kwara United goalkeeper Kazim Yekini, they found a bridge too far to cross.