In the final round, first leg duel staged at the Abebe Bekila Stadium, both sides had failed to make hay from a number of opportunities in the first half-hour, but the lithe forward struck in the 36th minute after she was put through by diminutive midfielder Taiwo Afolabi.
Browsing: Opeyemi Ajakaiye
Defender Tumininu Adeshina had flashed a shot into the side-netting in the 13th minute before team’s leading scorer Opeyemi Ajakaiye drew applause with a snap shot after chesting the ball outside the eighteen-yard box. But the ball was slightly off target.
The result in Benin City, the Edo State capital, took the Flamingos to an 8-0 aggregate win over the Central Africans.