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Gambia women U-20 smashes interior in friendly clash

Jan 10, 2020, 2:02 PM | Article By: Lamin Gibba

Gambia U-20 women national team, Wednesday beat Interior 4-2 in a friendly match, played at the FIFA Goal Project in Yundum.

The friendly match was part of the young women’s Scorpion technical preparations ahead of their maiden women’s U-20 World Cup qualifiers away to Burkina Faso on 18January in Ouagadougou.

Catherine Jatta gave Gambia U-20 women national team the lead in the 15th minute of the encounter after capitalizing on Ola Buwaro’s exceptional pass to fire home the opener.

Ola Buwaro scored the scored for women Scorpions in the 16th minutes from a simple tap before Interior pull one back through Fatou Njie in the 22nd minutes from Mbassy Darboe alias Messi’s corner to reduce the score line to 2-1.

Striker Mbassy Darboe alias Messi leveled the scores for Interior before half time after dribbling past Gambia U-20  women national  team net-minder Matty Manga.

Substitute Fatou Sonko netted the third and fourth for Gambia U20 women national team in the 60th and 90th minutes respectively to secure a resounding win over Interior.

Meanwhile, Gambia U-20 national women team will play against Red Scorpion in another friendly match today, at the FIFA Goal Project in Yundum at 4.30pm.