Angels Back To Winning Ways

Rivers Angels of Port
Harcourt got back to winning ways with a 1-2 victory over COD Ladies of Lagos in a week 7 encounter of the Nigeria Women Football League played at the Onikan Stadium in Lagos. It was a game that produced two red cards.
COD Ladies had the first shot on target but Adeshola Opeyemi’s goal inside the first minute was ruled offside almost immediately after kick off.
A match well dominated by the Edwin Okon tutored side saw Mabel Effiom volley in an Ngozi Ebere’s corner kick in the 10th minute to give the visitors a 0-1 lead.
In the 29th minute, Ayila Loveth came close to sending in a second from an Ebere’s cross but her shot went off target.
Then in the 39th minute, right back defender, Ugo Njoku sent in the second goal with Amarachi Ojinma assisting
Few minutes before half, the home team came close to putting one in through Okpe Blessing but Uju Joseph rushed to clear from goal line after goalkeeper Christy Ohiaeriaku missed her touch.
In the 66th minute Rivers Angels were reduced to ten players as Ayila Loveth was shown a straight red after she brought down Agams Nkechi.
Four minutes later, Dike Patience got a second yellow after she elbowed Juliet Bassey and was sent off to reduce the home team to 10 players as well.
However a goal scramble in the 86th minute made it 1-2 as Ikechukwu Vivian slotted in a set piece cross from Okpe Blessing.
Despite the 2-1 victory, head coach of Rivers Angels Edwin Okon said his team conceded a cheap goal
“Well I thank the players from Rivers Angels and I think it is a very good fight, very serious fight but at that level we just want to go back home and then see how we can correct some of the mistakes, you can as well see the goal we conceded, too cheap for a team like Rivers Angels and my take is just to go back to the drawing board and see how to correct those mistakes so that we can as well go back to where we supposed to be” said Okon.
On his part, head coach of COD Ladies, Alabi Kazeem said his side  played against a national team.
“If you look at ball possession, in times of ball possession we’re better than them, keep our balls on the ground and that is what we’re teaching them and look at my players they’re very young, we’re playing against the national team, we have about ten of them from the Falcons,  so if my girls can hold them like this it means their future is so so bright so am okay with the performance, I think they will do better in their next match” Kazeem said.
“We had an appeal for penalty more than three occasions which you can see so she never gave it, so me I don’t take my blame or fault to referee” he added.