We began the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) 2025/2026 season with a point on the road at Kwara United after a goalless draw in our season opener.
With only two players from the previous season making the starting XI, our first line up saw us start nine NPFL debutants and twelve in total featuring as we forced the home side into a no-goal affair ensuring to pick our first point of the season and our first away from home as well.
LINE UP: Michael Atata; Junior Christian, Alfred Odinaka, Gift Udoh, Ayomide Abatan; Kelechi Onwe, Rasheed Owolabi, Tosin Oyedokun; Joseph Arumala, Taiwo Alao & Uchechukwu Onyemaechi.
The opening minutes of the game wasn’t the most entertaining as both teams on the back of rebuilding from preseason, tried to settle into the game and had no clear attempt after the first quarter of an hour. The visitors however did have a good chance before the half ran out and Michael Atata pulled a brilliant save to keep the scores level before Taiwo Alao had his effort a little wide as we headed for the break.
The home side came out with more drive in the second half. We made three changes with the first fifteen minutes of resumption but Michael was the first to be called to action, stopping a header from going in.
In what was going to be a man of the match performance for our goalkeeper, Michael kept out three more good goalscoring chances from the home side with Tominsin going close from distance for us as we stole a point in Kwara, same ground we picked up our first even NPFL point and first ever point on the road last season.
UP NEXT
We play our first game back at the arena on match day two as we host El Kanemi Warriors on Sunday, 31st August 2025.
SUBSTITUTES
OUT: Taiwo Alao IN: Musa Malik 46’
OUT: Rasheed Owolabi IN: Tomisin Adebayo 59’
OUT: Uche Onyemaechi IN: David Kagbat 59’
OUT: Ayomide Abatan IN: Uche Ogbonnaya 74’
OUT: Taiwo Alao IN: Musa Malik 46’
OUT: Rasheed Owolabi IN: Tomisin Adebayo 59’
OUT: Uche Onyemaechi IN: David Kagbat 59’
OUT: Ayomide Abatan IN: Uche Ogbonnaya 74’