Red-hot Edo Queens Football Club of Benin today confirmed their supremacy in Group B of the 2022/23 Nigeria Women Football League NWFL premiership season as they piped Abia Angels 1-0 this morning at the Umuahia Township Stadium Abia State.
The NWFL week 14 match which was supposed to be played yesterday Wednesday, April 19th, 2023, was however abandoned after 30 minutes of action due to a heavy downpour in Umuahia.
Both teams came onto the pitch this morning with renewed vigor and determination out playing one another, but the ladies from Benin City took dominance of the game by showing their superiority over the host team throughout 60 minutes duration of play.
The second half resumed with a stunning start by the visitor’s mounting series of pressure on the Aba-based girls as the Benin creative midfielder Suliat Abideen, who looked to be cruising got a loose ball fling it to Omotoke Odueke, who wasted no time in creating a space for herself inside the box before producing a wonderful curling finishing with a goal at 48th minute which silenced the teeming fans of the host team.
To beef up the attack, Moses Aduku pulled out Godwin Eunice and Rebecca Ajimuda and brought in Yetunde Fajobi and Esther Chioma Moses. Their coming in made a serious impact in the second half as Esther Moses threw away two scoring chances for her side.
Abia Angels goal stopper Iyene Etim, was the saving grace in the match as she stopped all balls coming from Edo Queens’ attacking line-up. Though the Moses Aduku-led side squandered plenty of opportunities to get as many goals as five. Edo Queens FC at the end of the encounter smiled home with three maximum points hereby topping Group B with 25 points leaving their arch-rivals FC Robo of Lagos with 22 points.
This secured away victory by Edo Queens in Umuahia, has issued a warning to opponents ahead of other competitions that the Benin-City-based ladies will play their hearts out on the pitch to see victory in the forthcoming Super Six and the Aiteo Cup tournament.
Edo Queens will be focusing all of their efforts on progression in a bid to win laurels for the State in national and continental competitions.
Edo Queens’ teeming fans are happy that their darling team did not disappoint them. They ended the NWFL regular season on a brighter note which implies that the fans will continue to give maximum support to the team in subsequent competitions.
