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Bankers Games: No dream start for UBA, as Skye, First Bank win

By Editor
09 October 2015   |   2:10 am
IT wasn’t a dream start for the Nigeria Bankers Games (NBG) defending champions, UBA, as they endured a 1-1 draw with Sterling Bank on the opening day of the 2015 football events, which saw rivals and last season’s runners-up Skye Bank romp to a 2-0 win over Ecobank at the Digital Bridge Institute mini-Stadium. The opening…
Football- image source noshahronline

Football- image source noshahronline

IT wasn’t a dream start for the Nigeria Bankers Games (NBG) defending champions, UBA, as they endured a 1-1 draw with Sterling Bank on the opening day of the 2015 football events, which saw rivals and last season’s runners-up Skye Bank romp to a 2-0 win over Ecobank at the Digital Bridge Institute mini-Stadium. The opening day’s games were rounded off with a fixture, which First Bank won 1-0 against Fidelity bank.
 
Kelvin Ibekwe put UBA ahead in the early minutes of the first through a powerful placement to the far angle of the post but the Cup holders failed to make several other chances count. Lucky Sterling bank were also unlucky not to have cashed in on the only opportunity that came their way to restore parity in the first half.

The second half saw UBA still dominating play with captain Peter Chuka Nwachukwu narrowly missing a chance that would have sealed the game for his side. Afterwards, Sterling FC seemed to have been stung to fight back as they mounted pressure on UBA which yielded three minutes to full time when Omoniyi Alabi Afeez hit a volley from the 25 meters to level scores at 1-1.

Afeez would afterwards admit they had a difficult first half but enjoyed a turn around towards the end of the game. “Maybe it is the first time factor, we took time to get into the game and thankfully, our second half response was positive”, said the hero of his side.

“Our next match will be taken with all seriousness and we will try to make use of all our opportunities”, Azeez promised.
The UBA captain, Nwachukwu admitted they dropped the points in a game they would have wrapped up in the first half and blamed the late equalizer on loss of concentration.

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