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Yugoslavia showed their class in a 3-0 thrashing of hapless Nigeria in a World Cup warm-up match here on Friday.

Savo Milosevic opened the scoring on the stroke of half-time with a diving header which just squeezed inside the near post. Then Pedrag Mijatovic, the goal scorer in Real Madrid’s 1-0 European Cup final win over Juventus, scored the second after a dreadful goalkeeping error.

Keeper Abiodun Baruwa had the ball under control, but he inexplicably pushed it out too far with his foot allowing Mijatovic to steal it off him and guide the ball into an empty net on 61 minutes. Then 11 minutes later, Darko Kovacevic beat the offside trap, got the better of a defender and fired the ball home to complete the rout.

Nigeria, clearly second best on the night, showed their frustration by resorting to some untidy