Rivers
United defender, Ofem Inah has been suspended for three matches after he picked
up a red card in the club’s Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) match
against Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) in Ibadan on Saturday.
The
left-back was shown a straight red card for barging into 3SC’s Nojeem Olukokun
shorty before half time in the game which United eventually lost 0-1 with Wasiu
Jimoh converting the ensuing penalty, awarded after the incident.
Inah will miss United’s next three league games following ratification of the ban by
the League Management Company (LMC) on Monday. He will now miss the games
involving Rivers United and Sunshine Stars (in Port Harcourt on March 23),
Ikorodu United (in Lagos on March 27) and El Kanemi Warriors (in Port Harcourt
on April 6).
Inah was heartbroken by the news that he will miss the next three matches beginning
with Wednesday’s NPFL clash against his former club, Sunshine Stars in Port
Harcourt.
“I feel very
sad that I won’t be playing against my former club (Sunshine Stars). I wanted
to prove my worth against them but God knows why this happened. We must go for
a win in that game on Wednesday. There is going to be no compromise and we are
not thinking of any other result, other than a win,” Inah told RIVERS UNITED
MEDIA.
He is the
second Rivers United player to receive a three-match ban this season after
defender, Ayobami Asekunowo got the marching orders in the club’s 2-3 reverse
to Niger Tornadoes in Lokoja on March 13.
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