The tie is evenly-poised on a knife edge following a 0-0 draw in the first leg at the Stade Modibo Kéïta, Bamako last Sunday
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The award-winning 19-year-old forward, who was absolutely impressive for MFM FC in the month of January, scoring four goals from four Nigerian top league games, beat off competition from his teammate, Olatunbosun Sikiru, Kabiru Umar of Plateau United and Olufemi Thomas of Rivers United to win the Player of the Month Award
The two sides battled to a 0-0 draw in the first leg of their preliminary round game at the Stade Modibo Kéïta, Bamako on Sunday, leaving the tie evenly poised on a knife edge ahead of the second leg at the Yakubu Gowon Stadium
The preliminary round return leg will be played in Port Harcourt next weekend with the overall winner advancing to the next stage of the competition
United will go toe to toe against last season’s Malian Première Division runners up at the Stade Omnisports Modibo Keïta, Bamako on Saturday in a first leg preliminary round clash
The ‘Pride of Rivers’ will be guests of AS Real Bamako on Saturday at the Stade Omnisports Modibo Keïta, Bamako in the first leg of their preliminary round clash in Africa’s apex club competition; the CAF Champions League
Technical manager of Rivers United, Stanley Eguma, has assured that the team will give Nigeria creditable representation in Mali on Saturday
The officials, one of them a cameraman, were spotted at the Lekan Salami Stadium during the club’s training session on February 4 and 24 hours later at the same venue when Rivers United lost 1-2 to Shooting Stars Sports Club in an NPFL contest
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Match Day 6 fixture was tension-soaked
The match day six clash at the Lekan Salami Stadium is important for both sides for different reasons
Rivers United slipped from second to fifth with nine points from five matches as a result of the draw, while Lobi Stars now occupies 10th spot on the NPFL log with seven points from their opening five fixtures
Rivers United have enjoyed their best ever start to a Nigeria Professional Football League season this term after amassing eight points from a possible 12 from their first four games of the campaign
Ovoke finished as the club’s top scorer last season and has taken two league games to get off the mark this term
The two sets of gladiators will wear the stripes of Rivers United FC and El Kanemi Warriors and the Arena is the Yakubu Gowon Stadium, Port Harcourt
The club also engaged Baba Gana-Naru as Technical Adviser following the exit of the former adviser, Abdul Maikaba, and employed Bwasit Mangut as its chief coach
This gesture was announced on Thursday in Lagos at the club’s branded shirt unveiling by the Group Managing Director of Eunisell, Chika Ikenga
This was the agreement reached at the end of a meeting of NFF officials and officials of the four Clubs – Rangers International, Rivers United, FC IfeanyiUbah and Wikki Tourists – at the NFF Secretariat, Abuja on Wednesday
United started on the front foot at the UJ Esuene Stadium and should have opened the scoring in the third minute, but Emeka Ogbughu failed to reach Bolaji Sakin’s cross on the far side
Rivers United doctor, Chukwuemeka Agi, who is with the defender in India, explained that the procedure, which took place on December 24, was successful
Eguma was also part of Enyimba’s technical crew that led the ‘People’s Elephant’ to Caf Champions League success for the first time in 2003