Head coach of the Black Princesses, Yussif Basigi, has promised to 'polish' his side's lack of efficiency in front of goal ahead of their next group games.

The Black Princesses fell to Austria in their opening game at the ongoing FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup losing 1-2 on the day despite an impressive second-half performance.

Stella Nayame and Jennifer Owusuaa had efforts tamed by the Austrian goalkeeper before the former eventually scored. Tracey Twum also fluffed her lines on a couple of occasions in the defeat.

Basigi believes his side was not good enough in front of goal.

"We started the game slowly and getting to the latter part of the first half we started raising our game and for the second half we dominated play when we were down by a goal" he said.

"We didn’t utilise many of our goal-scoring chances which was unfortunate. I think this is where we have to polish very well so that we will be able to be back in contention.

"The second half performance was very good if we had started the first half like the way we did in the second half, it would have been super but we started slowly."

The Black Princesses' next game is against 2018 champions, Japan, on Thursday at 22:00 GMT before wrapping up against New Zealand.