The sporting director of Lagos-based Good Metropolis FC, Abiodun Obafemi has predicted that the workforce will achieve promotion to Nigeria Skilled Soccer League (NPFL), as a result of it’s a goal they got down to obtain from the start of this season.
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Sports247 studies that, although Good Metropolis are at the moment fourth on the log of Nigeria Nationwide League (NNL), Obafemi insists they’ll scale via as a result of they received’t hand over the struggle till the season ends.
The previous defender and ex-international, who was a part of Nigeria’s gold medal-winning under-23 squad at Atalanta ’96 Olympic Video games, enthused that Saturday’s 3-1 spanking of Crown FC of Ogbomosho additional confirmed Good Metropolis’s sturdy push for promotion this season.
Obafemi identified, “I’m tremendous completely happy for the three factors, as a result of it improved our standing on the league desk.
“Our goal proper from the primary day of the season was to achieve promotion, and we’re staying centered on that concentrate on. We’re nonetheless hopeful about it, and we’ll proceed to be till the final match.
“We is not going to hand over, and that dream will proceed to dwell with us. It will likely be our information and largest motivation in all our matches this season.”
Though Obafemi admitted that his aspect wants a contact of luck to tug via the extremely aggressive NNL race, he reasoned additional that they’re adequate to climate the storm and obtain their ambition.
“The NNL’s normal may be very excessive this season. There isn’t any pushover membership on this division, and all of the groups are superb.
“The usual was additionally very excessive in our recreation versus Crown FC, and it has been like that proper from our very first match this season; however I nonetheless charge my workforce very excessive.
“We’re among the finest, and there’s little doubt about that. There’s no gainsaying, we now have among the finest groups within the league, if not the perfect.
“What we want, although, is luck, which isn’t distant from us. Our subsequent match is away to Sunshibe Stars in Akure, the place we hope to get a great end result.
“We nonetheless have the league leaders, Inter Lagos to face, however we’re not terrified of them. We defeated them within the first spherical and I consider we’ll nonetheless beat them within the subsequent match,” Obafemi boasted.
Sports247 gathered additional that Good Metropolis are at the moment fourth on the NNL’s log, with 20 factors, identical as Heartland of Owerri; whereas Past Limits of Ikenne are second with 24 factors and one recreation performed greater than others, however stage with prime positioned Inter Lagos FC.
Good Metropolis’s subsequent fixture is away to Sunshine Stars of Akure on Friday, following which they’ll host Past Restrict on the twenty eighth of March after which go to Inter Lagos in an area derby on April 4th.
