History favour Flying Eagles on today's clash between Nigeria vs England

Flying Eagles to beat England tonight and qualify for the quarterfinal of the U20 World Cup in Colombia. While the Flying Eagles have played in two championship games in this competition, England's best performances were recorded in 1993, when they placed third, and in 1981 when they reached the last four. England have lost more games than they have won in this tournament - they lost 14 games, drew nine and won eight.

In the 2009 edition of the competition, they crashed out in the first round with a mere point. And at Colombia 2011, the Young Three Lions barely squeezed through to the knockout stage as one of four "third best teams" after they recorded three goalless draws in Group F playing against North Korea, Argentina and Mexico.

Nigeria, on the other hand, have been in cruise control in this year's tournament after they finished the first round with the maximum nine points from three games and fired home a record 12 goals. England are in Colombia after they reached the last four of last year's European U19 Championship, where they lost 3-1 to Spain.

However, England have still been able to line up a defence that has yet to concede a goal in three games. This is not surprising because three of the six ever-presents thus far play there - giant goalkeeper Jack Butland and defenders Reece Wabara and Adam Smith. Butland from Birmingham City has caught the eye with his composure between the sticks and even saved a penalty against a Mexican team who controlled their clash from start to finish but could not find their way past the 1.96m tall shot stopper.

Six-time African champions Nigeria have not been shy about the intention of becoming the second African team after Ghana to be world champions at this level.