Eguma targets point against 3SC

The technical adviser of Rivers United, Stanley Eguma believes his side can pick a good result against Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) in a match day 6 of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) at the Lekan Salami Stadium, Adamasingba, Ibadan on Sunday.

Eguma is still hurt by the draw at home to Lobi Stars on match day five and wants his players to produce a response against Oluyole warriors that last won an NPFL match on January 15.

“We dropped some points at home and we are pained by that. Nobody is happy about it.  We have to go back and work harder as a team.  We have gotten points on the road in our first two away games of the season so we can still do it again on Sunday.

“There was a lot of hard work in terms of preparations before those games against Akwa United (on match day two) and FC Ifeanyiubah (on match day four) and we got positive results. We have worked just as hard if not harder for this game against 3SC and I am confident we will make our fans happy. However, if we play the same way we played against Lobi Stars last Sunday, we will lose to 3SC,” Eguma said.

Rivers United have amassed nine points from a possible 15 while 3SC, currently occupy 19th spot on the log have claimed four points from their opening five games of the season.

Form guide (last five NPFL matches)

Shooting Stars (LDLLW)

Shooting Stars 2-0 Lobi Stars (Home)

Shooting Stars 0-1 Sunshine Stars (Away)

Shooting Stars 1-2 Kano Pillars (Away)

Shooting Stars 1-1 MFM FC (Home)

Shooting Stars 0-2 ABS FC (Away)

Rivers United (DDWWW)

Rivers United 2-1 El Kanemi Warriors (Home)

Rivers United 1-1 Akwa United (Away)

Rivers United 1-0 Niger Tornadoes (Home)

Rivers United 0-0 FC Ifeanyiubah (Away)

Rivers United 0-0 Lobi Stars (Away)

Previous meetings in competitive matches (Head-to-head)

Matches: Three (3)

Rivers United wins: Two (2)

Shooting Stars wins: One (1)

Draws; Nil (0)

Details (Specific breakdown)

Shooting Stars 1-0 Rivers United (NPFL; Lekan Salami Stadium, Ibadan on March 19, 2016).

Rivers United 2-0 Shooting Stars (NPFL; Yakubu Gowon Stadium, Port Harcourt on July 17, 2016)

Rivers United 3-2 (PSO) Shooting Stars (Federation Cup; July 13, 2016 at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna)