The Gambia U-20 team yesterday registered another milestone achievement by qualifying for the second round of the World Youth Championship currently underway in Canada, despite playing one man down through out the second period.

After losing to Mexico in their debut game and beating New Zealand in an unconvincing win, the Darling Scorpions bounced back last night by upsetting Portugal 2-1 in Montreal.
The victory gave the Gambia six points, second place in the group C and automatic ticket to the last 16.
In the highlights of the game, it was the Darling Scorpions who first mounted an assault on the Portuguese defense in the 7th minute when Pa Modou Jagne headed away a cross from Sainey Nyassi.
The Portuguese reacted in the 11th minute with a chance missed by Andre Marques.

The situation remained at stand still up to the 20th minute when Feliciano Condesso headed in the first goal of the game for Portugal following a poor challenge of goalkeeper Joseph Gomez.
The goal forced the Gambian Coach, Peter Bonu Johnson, to make some chances in his line up with the coming of Abdoulie Ken Mansally for Paul Jatta alias Apapa.
The chance paid well as the Gambia controlled the game and pushed the Portuguese defense to make lot of mistakes.

The turning point of the first occurred in the 44th minute when the Portuguese central defender Renato brought down Ousman Jallow in the six yard box.
The German central referee did not hesitate to show to penalty point for the Gambia.
Ousman Jallow made justice for himself by leveling the scores in the 44th minute at the joy of thousands of Gambians at home and abroad.
The first half ended 1-1.

The Gambia came back in the game after lemon break with more determination of clinching the three points.
Unfortunately for them their team captain Ken Malamin Jammeh was sent off in the 56th minute of the game due to hard tackle on Andre Marques, who never returned on the pitch after the injury.
Coach Bonu Johnson reinforced the defense by bringing Furmus Mendy for striker Ousman Jallow.
The red card was like an extra encouragement for the Darling Scorpions as they out played the Portuguese despite a man down.

The turning point of the game occurred in the 67th minute when Abdoulie Ken Mansally netted the second for the Gambia on a long rage free kick.
From there, the Darling scorpions never looked back as they continued to give unpleasant moment to both the front and defense of the Portuguese team.
With this victory, The Gambia would now face the second placed winners of group A, must likely Austria on Wednesday July 11th, 2007.

At the final whistle, thousands of Gambian at home stormed the streets to jubilate the most awaited victory from the team that made name for the Country.