NPFL: Plateau United draw goalless with Gombe United

Draw
By Uwumarogie Peter
Gombe, Feb. 3, 2019 (NAN) Gombe United Football Club on Sunday played out a goalless draw with visiting Plateau United of Jos in a 2018/2019 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) Match Day 6 fixture.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the hosts however failed to convert a good number of goalscoring chances in the match played at the Pantami Stadium in Gombe.

The away draw was precious to the visitors, with an excited Plateau United’s coach Audu Pele saying he was satisfied with the match’s result.

“We are satisfied with the one point we got, because we came here for either a win or a draw.

“It was a good match though. My players performed to instructions, and that was the secret of our success today (Sunday),” he said.

Pele also said he was satisfied with the officiating, noting that he had no reason to blame the referee.

He however pointed out that referees were improving game by game and this was good for the game of football in the country.

The coach added that he was optimistic of another good result in their next match, against Nasarawa United of Lafia, saying “the match will not be a problem to my team’’.

NAN also reports that the home side’s fans attempted to enter the field after the match to express their frustration, citing poor officiating by the match referees.

Meanwhile, Gombe United’s coach Ladan Bosso was not available to comment on the match.

He was busy shepherding his players off the pitch and also appealing to the fans to be calm.

The match officials and the away team later had to be escorted out of the stadium by armed policemen.(NAN)
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(Edited by Olawale Alabi)