NPFL’23: Insurance will continue impressive form in second stanza – Odigie

Bendel Insurance coverage head coach, Monday Odigie is optimistic that the Benin Arsenals will proceed their spectacular efficiency when the Nigeria Skilled Soccer League Second Spherical resumes.

Bendel Insurance coverage on Sunday night pipped Enyimba to keep up Group A management on the finish of the First Spherical.

Bendel Insurance coverage Soccer Membership of Benin, on Sunday night defeated visiting Enyimba Worldwide Soccer Membership of Aba 1-0 within the week 9 fixture of the Nigeria Premier Soccer League (NPFL) performed on the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin Metropolis.

The one aim of the tension-soaked match was scored by prime striker Imade Osarenkhoe courtesy of Ebuka Akobundu’s help from the precise flank within the twenty third minute of play and ultimately sealed victory for the excessive flying Bendel Insurance coverage FC.

Imade, Sarki Ismael and Vincent Augustus got here near rising the aim tally for the host however their efforts went inches away from the publish at completely different events because the homers got here all out towards the Folks’s Elephants.

Enyimba then again confirmed why their most revered membership within the nation as they gave a great account of themselves with possessive show all through however all their try for potential equaliser met the brick partitions posed by Insurance coverage defence community of Sunday Anyawu, Benjamin Tanimu, Julius Emiloju and Ebuka Akobundu.

On resumption of hostility within the second half, the homers continued from the place they stopped within the second half as they piled up extra stress on the guests in the hunt for extra targets but it surely ended 1-0.

With the victory over the 2 occasions CAF Champions League Winners, the Benin Arsenal ended the primary spherical of the 2023 NPFL Group A with 23 factors, seven factors away from the second positioned Enyimba.

In a publish match interview, the Chief Coach of Enyimba, Finidi George, counseled his boys for enjoying to directions, and blamed their defeat on onerous luck.

The previous Ajax FC of Holland and Tremendous Eagles mercurial winger, stated his boys will probably be going again to the drafting board in preparations for the second stanza of the league.

On his half, Coach Monday Odigie of Insurance coverage expressed delight on the victory over the hard-fighting Enyimba boys, simply as he promised to appropriate some errors seen in his crew earlier than the resumption of the second spherical.

On the probabilities of Bendel Insurance coverage profitable the league, coach Odigie stated his boys will probably be taking every recreation at a time.

Insurance coverage FC have been in spectacular type since return to the premier league and will probably be continuing on three weeks mid-season break happy.

-BSNSports