NNL Super 4: Go Round FC beat Kwara United to reach final

Date: 2018-01-08

Go Round Football Club on Sunday defeated Kwara United FC 4-2 via a penalty kicks shootout to reach the final match of the 2016/2017 Nigeria National League (NNL) Super 4 competition.

The match, the opening game of the competition being played at the Agege Stadium in Lagos, had ended in a barren draw. The competition, which is for the top two clubs in the 2016/2017 NNL's two conferences, is a knockout event and the match's winner was decided on penalty kicks.

The Ilorin-based Kwara United lost two penalty kicks, while Go Round FC who are from Port Harcourt scored four of their kicks. Speaking after the match, Kwara United's coach John Obuh condemned the competition's format, saying it fell short of his expectations.

"I am not too happy with the organisers of this competition. What we were told was that it would be a preparatory competition where all the clubs would play against each other. "What we met here is quite different. If this is what I have been told I would have stayed back for other preparations, because playing a game and you are off is not a good test.

"We will be looking forward to the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL), in which I believe we will have a decent campaign this time," he said. Coach of Go Round FC, Emmanuel Elechi, on his part however praised the organisers for coming out to organise the tournament. He added that his team was well prepared for the match.

"We are happy to have won the match. I anticipated that the match may drag to the penalty kicks shootout. So, I prepared the players well for the shootout. "It is on record that we are yet to lose any match during our pre-season tour and I can also say that all the players in Go Round FC are from the NNL.

"I recruited all the players from the NNL to make a statement, that we have good players in the NNL. "Now, I want to go home with the trophy here and this is my next target," Elechi said.(NAN)

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Mary Kemi Adeosun     Otoge     Monkey Pox     Dorcas Afeniforo     Fatimah Abdulkadir     Ilorin General Hospital     Yoonus Lawal     Sa\'adu Salau     April 11     Gobir     Olukotun Of Ikotun     Salman Jawondo     Ubandawaki     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Fatai Olodo     College Of Education     Oko Erin     Oloje     Kayode Oyin-Zubair     Abdulganiyu Oladosu     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     Muhammad Yahya     Mohammed Ajia Ibrahim     Amosa     SARS     AbdulRaheem Ahmad Shayi     Dairo Kunle Paul     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     Aliyu Sabi     Aisha Gobir     Mustapha Olanipekun     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Jani Ibrahim     Ayo Adeyemi     Apaokagi     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     High Court     Ahmad Ali     Ibrahim Taiwo Road     John Kehinde Salako     Umar Sanda Yusuf     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     Kwha.gov.ng     KWAFFA     Femi Agbaje     Elerin Of Adanla     Tafida Of Kaiama     Lanre Issa-Onilu     Taofik Abdulkareem     Charcoal     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Curfew     Yaru     Yemi Sanni     Ahman Pategi University     Jare Olatundun     Abdulsalam Firdaous Amosa     Matthew Babaoye     Saadu Gbogbo Iwe     Suleiman Idris     Bashir Adigun     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Third Estate     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Sanusi Abubakar     Is\'haq Modibbo Kawu     Saliu Tunde Bello     Government House     John Dara     Quran     Ilorin.Info     IESA     Joseph Alex Offorjama     KWASSIP     Shuaib Jawondo     Lanre Olosunde     Muftau Akanbi Oke    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Saka Isau     Abdullahi Samari     Yahya Mohammed     Sebastine Obasi     Abdulrahman Abdulrazak     Yahaya Seriki     Michael Imoudu National Institute For Labour Studies     Bolaji Gambari     Idofin     Lanre Jimoh     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Frootify     Tunde Yusuf     Kwara State Football Association     Oni Adebayo     Kwarareports.com     New Naira Notes     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin     Sheu Ndanusa Usman     Ghali Alaaya     Olayinka Are     Rex Olawoye     Ilorin Curfew     Kwara United     Ganiyu Abolarin     Baba Idris     Shagari     Kunle Suleiman     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Sanusi Abubakar     Ganmo     Minister     Maryam Nurudeen     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Lanre Badmus     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     T And K FOODS     Shonga Farm Project     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     Tinubu Legacy Forum     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Cornelius Adebayo     Mopelola Abdulmaliq-Bashir     Fola Consultant     General Hospital, Offa     Okin Malt     Yahaya Abdulkareem     Yusuf Olaolu Ali     COEASU     Ahmad Olayiwola Kamaldeen     Moshood Bakare     Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     Rotimi Oyedepo     Adaramaja     Eghe Igbinehin     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     Tunji Moronfoye     Bolaji Aladie     Salman Jawondo     Bank Of Industry     Ayinde Oki     Hassan Taiye Salam     Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     Lithium Deposit     Jimoh Saadudeen Muhammed     Nigerian Army     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Solomon Edoja     Abubakar B.M     Kudirat Arinola Lawal     Ishaq Abdulkarim     Emmanuel Bello     Gaa Olobi     Kaosarah Adeyi     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     Olaiya Lawal     Tsaragi-Share