NPFL Super Six: MFM set up final with CHAN Eagles
Lagos-based Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) side MFM FC have qualified for the final of the NPFL Invitational Tournament after they were forced to a one-all draw by Kano Pillars at the Sani Abacha Stadium, Kano on Friday.
Adekunle Adegboyega put MFM FC in the lead in the third minute, before Pillars equalize later on through Alhassan. Ibrahim.
The game started on a high note with MFM winning a free kick at the right side in the third minute. Stanley Okorom whipped in the ball low and hard into the box and Adekunle bundled the set-piece into the Pillars net to give his team a headstart in the contest.
The game’s pace dropped and was limited to a tussle in the middle of the pack until 12 minutes later when a Pillars attack led to Nyima Nwagua darting into the box to set up Alassan Ibrahim who fired in from a tight angle to restore parity.
Eleven minutes later, MFM came close when Okorom’s thunderbolt of a free kick was punched out by keeper Yusuf Mohammed for a corner. From then Kano Pillars took control of game pressing their opponents for the second goal but they were denied by the brilliant defending of the trio of Chuka Uwaga, Jonathan Zikiye and Austin Opara.
However they came close in the 32nd minute when the lively Nwagua dragged his attempt at goal wide.
Pillars, again came close three minutes into the second half when Nwagua’s direct run caused confusion in the MFM box, but his shot was saved by Folarin Abayomi.
The Kano club failed to make their pressure on MFM count as MFM book a place in the final against the Super Eagles.
