Super Falcons coach, Edwin Okon has promised to ensure his wards qualify for the knock out stage of the 2015 Women’s World Cup in Canada.

Okon who was speaking after the African champions were beaten 2-0 by a tactically superior Australia side, said his girls must come out and attack against the USA team in their next match on Tuesday.

Okon started by reflecting on the ill-fated encounter against the Australian ladies.

Nigeria’s soccer team players run with balls during a training session at the Waverley Soccer Complex in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on June 9, 2015, ahead of their 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup group D football match against Australia to be played on June 12. AFP PHOTO

“I thought it was a very good match. I congratulate the winners, Australia,” he said, adding, “we have to get back out and score goals. We must qualify. Nigeria must qualify to the next round. So we must get back to the form we had against Sweden”. He however blamed the centre referee who handled their match against Australia who ended the match abruptly.

Okon queried match officials’ decision to award Kyah Simon’s second goal on the night as legitimate and faulted them for short changing his side on added time by 4 minutes.

“I don’t have much to say but at that level we are not happy with the officiating the second goal and the added time.

“As long as we know, 2 or 3 minutes can produce two goals, cutting off 4 good minutes for a side was not fair because we believe with that 4 minutes anything could still happen on the pitch of play,” Okon said.

“  I’ve maintained that no team at this stage is a bad side. We’ll go back and work because we must qualify to the next round, the children are aware, they know their mistakes.”