Edo Queens of Benin City coach, Moses Aduku is boasting ahead of his side’s last match at this year’s Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) Super-6, with a declaration that his team’s focus is totally on lifting the trophy at stake.
Sports247 reports that Aduku lost his voice while celebrating, but regained his bravado after seeing his side dump Bayelsa Queens of Yenagoa on Thursday, thereby putting them in contention to emerge as back-to-back champions.
They are now level on six points with Bayelsa Queens and hosts of this year’s play-off contest, Remo Ladies of Ikenne, with all teams set for rhe final lap of matches on the same day in Ikenne.
Though the holders are still a point behind Nasarawa Amazons of Lafia, who they battle in Saturday’s last fixture, which many fans are already rating as a game that will provide a symbolic exchange of the trophy custody, Aduku insists his side must not be written off.
The former youth international midfielder declared, “Just watch and see. Everybody has their dark moments, and Bayelsa Queens had theirs against us, but it’s not over yet. We are still pushing on. Just wait for the last game.”
He then addressed the fact that they lost their first match of the series against Remo Ladies, with a view that the ability of his girls to bounce back and still remain in contention for the trophy is a true reflection of their title winning potentials.
Madded, “Sometimes in a tournament, you start slow. I use Cote d’Ivoire as an example from the last AFCON … third best in the group, but they came back to win it. We have one more game, and we are still competing.”
He concluded, though, by admitting that the Edo State-owned side have not been at their best in the competition so far, but quickly posited that his players will be in a strong position of contention to upstage Nasarawa Amazons on Saturday – because they have discovered all their missing links.
“This is not out standard. My girls have not really got it right, but sometimes it’s like that. I praise them, though, for coming back.
“The important thing is to have focus on the trophy, and that’s what we are doing. We are coming out to win. That’s the truth. We’ve found our winning ways, and we’ve found our scoring boots.
“So, therefore, the match against Nasarawa is surely going to be the final. We have a score to settle, and we are going for the cup,” Aduku submitted firmly.
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