Pre season tourney: EFCC Shock Nasarawa United To Win 2022 Unity Pre-Season Tournament

Nigeria Nationwide League (NNL) facet, EFCC FC Abuja, emerged champions of the 2022 Unity Pre-season match after they edged NPFL giants, Nasarawa United 4-3 on penalties within the finals determined over the weekend in Abuja.

The ultimate match which was watched by a capability crowd on the Space 3 soccer area Garki led to a 1-1 attract regulation time.

Masoud Danjuma opened the scoring for EFCC from the spot as early because the seventh minute after Nasarawa United’s goalkeeper, Yinka David, was adjudged by the referee to have fouled an opponent within the field.

On resumption, the extra skilled Nasarawa United who had been runners-up within the 2021 version of the match, took the sport to their opponents and had been rewarded within the fifty fifth minute when Joshua John capitalized on a mix-up within the EFCC defence to attain the equalizer.

Within the penalty shoot-out that ensued, the EFCC boys who had eradicated one other NPFL facet, Lobi Stars on penalties within the second semi-final match maintained their composure to win once more 4-3 on penalties.

After misses by Nasarawa United’s Abubakar Abdullahi and Chinedu Ohanachom, EFCC transformed 4 of their 5 spot kicks to be topped champions of the 2022 version of the Unity pre-season match.

In the meantime, the Coordinator of the pre-season match and former vice-chairman of the FCT FA, Patrick Ngwaogu, expressed the appreciation of the organisers to varied soccer stakeholders for supporting them to make sure the profitable completion of the competitors.