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IMO FA CUP 2023 : Heartland Queens Are Imo FA Cup Champion
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Heartland Queens have been made to sweat deep into their panties earlier than they overcome on penalties arduous fighters and non-league facet, First Mahi Babes in Tuesday’s Imo State FA Cup Ladies’s closing on the mainbowl of the Dan Anyiam Stadium in Owerri.
Full time rating stood goalless and the pretenders have been separated on the lottery of penalties.
Whereas the Cup holders, Heartland Queens transformed their 5 kicks in a masterly vogue the non-leaguers transformed 4 of theirs as the primary kick was saved by the Owerri landladies’ aim tender, Amarachi Atulayo who really made her aggressive debut for her facet in a podium dance.
Each side nonetheless, have booked their passages to the nationwide finals because the state’s representatives.
The amateurs don’t have anything to be ashamed of as they gave their illustrious premier leaguers numerous scares that would have gone down in historical past of the annual soccer showpiece as monumental embarrassment.
The primary timers on the state podium stage, First Mahi Babes got here into the dugouts properly decided to keep away from earlier humiliations and simply after 20 minutes of respect took the sport to the other in determined seek for the opener and at every event the Owerri facet goalie, Atulayo was at her finest to save lots of the blushes.
The conflict was fierce and witnessed the scarcest possibilities on each side.
Heartland Queens made 4 modifications, Onyinyechi Kalu, Chinedu Chinaka, Mary Okorie and Ezinne Wokocha in locations of Chizoba Orji, Chinwendu Orji and debutants, Emmanuelle James and Sylvia Iheanyichukwu in frantic effort to interrupt the impasse to no avail because the challengers might have resolved to not go down thrice to the identical facet regardless of the disproportionate sizes.
And after it appeared to the arbiters that no aim is forthcoming inside the asking time they rightly whistled each side to the penalties and the NWFL Premiership facet received the lottery 5-4.
Heartland Queens received the rapid previous version on the expense of non-league facet, Imo Angels and went to the final eight on the nationwide stage.
The boys’s was a blowout because the state’s mainstream facet, Heartland FC scored three unanswered targets in opposition to an equally spectacular non-league facet, Fr. Eburuaja FC. The victors and vanquished will head off to the nationwide finals as state campaigners.
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