Shooting Stars fans deserve better results in NPFL, says Gbenga Ogunbote

By Saheed Afolabi

Shooting Stars head coach, Gbenga Ogunbote has assured the club’s fans and faithful’s of improved results when the team resumes the second stanza of the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) season.

The Oluyole Warriors ended the first stanza on a disappointing note as they played out a 2-2 draw with visiting Akwa United at the Lekan Salami stadium, Ibadan, leaving them without a win in five-consecutive matches.

Following fans disaffections, the former Remo Stars and Sunshine Stars gaffer assured that the team’s disappointing run of form will soon be a thing of the past, while opening up on his potential plan for the second round.

“I sincerely wish to apologize to our teeming supporters for the kind of below par results we churned out in the first stanza of the league. We have actually disappointed them as we have not met their expectations but I just want to enjoin them not to lose confidence in us,” Ogunbote told media.

“Shooting Stars is their team and we are going to come back strongly. We implore them to show us more love in this trying period. We need them behind us to churn out good results. We are not happy too but that is football,” he said.

“Let me assure our teeming supporters that there is going to be a few additions into the team before the commencement of the second stanza. We have injury worries and lack of confidence amongst few players but that is not an excuse.

“We still have three weeks to make adjustments and we are going to go clinically in all departments to effect these changes in the next three weeks. Also, we are going to harp on tactical discipline to change the fortune of the club.”

Shooting Stars seat in the sixth position in the NPFL accumulating ten points from nine matches thereby, recording two wins, four draws and three losses.

They will resume hostilities in the NPFL playing away to Akwa United on the 26th of March after a three-week break of the Nigerian topflight league for the general elections.