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Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the NPFL Group A top-of-the-table clash between Bendel Insurance and Remo Stars. My name is Jidechi and I'd be your guide.
- What a game this was for the newcomers. Unexpected, I must say. Meanwhile, this is where I'd call it a wrap for today's coverage. thanks for sticking around.
8 more NPFL games on Sunday, across both Groups. Let's see how those pan out. For now, it's goodbye from me. 🙋🏽♂️
- Well, seems like I'm not the only one impressed. This is what has been said on social media. 🗣
- Of course, a stuff of champions from the defending champions at the Nest of Champions. This is how it ended in Uyo.
Meanwhile, this is how it affects the Group A table. No difficulty guessing who's first, and who'd remain there until the end of the game week 👀
What a game this was. Goals from Imade Osarenkhoe, Ismael Sarki and Austine Ogunye, ending Remo Stars'winning streak and sending them below the newcomers.
FULL-TIME!
Bendel Insurance 3️⃣-0️⃣ Remo Stars
- 90' Bendel Insurance 3-0 Remo Stars: There will be 4️⃣ additional minutes in Benin City. Done and dusted, that's what we can call this one.
- MEANWHILE IN UYO:
Can the champions maintain their lead against Dakkada and extend their unbeaten run? Should it end this way Rivers United remain in their first position in Group B.
- ⚽: BOOM! It's a whitewash in Benin, and the Sky Blue Stars have been taken to the cleaners! With a fabulous strike from the Austine Ogunye scores the 3rd for Bendel Insurance. 3-0
- ANOTHER ONE OFF THE FRAME OF THE GOAL!
Divine Nwachukwu delivers a fantastic free kick that beats Remo Stars' wall, but Bankole Kayode does well with a superb parry to give Bendel Insurance a corner.
- 69' IT HITS THE WOODWORK! 🙆🏽♂️
A goalkeeping spill by Bankole Kayode almost gives Bendel Insurance their third of the day, but Imade Osenrenkhoe's blatant effort goes off the crossbar.
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- 60' Bendel Insurance 2-0 Remo Stars: An hour gone in Benin City, and at this point, I can say this game might just be wrapped up based on how both sides have performed since the interval.
- And this is how this scoreline currently affects the league table 👇🏽
46' SECOND HALF BEGINS!
Bendel Insurance 2-0 Remo Stars
- I cannot be the only person stunned by these half-time results. Or am I? 👀
HALF-TIME!
Bendel Insurance 2-0 Remo Stars
- CLOSE! Remo Stars almost half the score after Seun Ogunribide takes a free kick from the left flank, but Amas Obasogie denies Okon Anekeme's header.
- ELSEWHERE
Defending champions have come from behind to take the lead in Uyo. Goals coming from Nyima Nwagua (35' min), and Naibe Akpesiri (45+4' min). Dakkada had opened the scoring in the 16th minute thanks to Isaac George
- 45' Bendel Insurance 2-0 Remo Stars: There will be 5️⃣ minutes of additional time in this first half
- A reduction in the tempo of this game after that second goal by Sarki. Still 2-0
ICYMI:
Imade Osarenkhoe has now scored 4 consecutive goals in his last 4 games
Ismael Sarki has scored in three of his 4 games for Bendel Insurance this season
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- 30' Bendel Insurance 2-0 Remo Stars: Half an hour gone in Benin City
- ⚽: BOOM! The hosts double their lead, and it's another recognizable name - Ismael Sarki. It's his third goal of the season, and the Sky Blues Stars are surprisingly two goals down before the half-hour mark. 2-0
- 23' Andy Okpe with a good drive towards Insurance's box, he finds another red shirt, but Anyanwu Sunday gets to the ball early to clear for safety.
- Dear Remo Stars fans, what's happening today? 🤷🏽♂️
- Fifteen minutes on the clock, and a long pass locates Remo Stars' Andy Okpe, he tries to find his way to convert but Amas Obasogie comes out to deny him.
- ⚽: GOAL! Bendel Insurance draws the first blood in the 5th minute, and it's the one and only IMADE OSARENKHOE! He scores his fourth of the season off an Osas Okoro corner. Bendel Insurance 1-0 Remo Stars
- 1' We're now underway at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium
Bendel Insurance 0-0 Remo Stars
- KICKOFF!
- Having scored in three consecutive matches, Bendel Insurance's Imade Osarenkhoe joint-sit at the top of the goal scorers chart
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- Remo Stars come into this game as the only side yet to concede a goal this season. Will their run end in Benin?
Meanwhile, take a shot at predicting. WHO WINS THIS ONE?
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- Here's how both teams line up this evening
Hello and welcome, it's the first game for the fourth round of matches this season. Let me guide you as things unfold at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City.
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