How 3SC beat Niger Tornadoes – Agoye reveals

By Taofeek Babalola

Assistant coach of Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) of Ibadan, Edith Agoye has revealed secret behind his side’s 2-1 win over Niger Tornadoes of Minna in matchday 18 of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) on Sunday at the lekan salami Stadium, Adamasingba Ibadan.

The Super substitute striker, Assiri Emmanuel had lasted only 10 minutes in the game before he scored a late winner to give Shooting Stars maximum three points against hard fighting Tornadoes.

The Ivorian striker had come in for injured Merenini Junior in his consecutive games to give seemingly hopeless home fans something more to cheer when slotted in the winner on 85th minute of the game.

Agoye said 3SC studied their opponents’ last match against Remo Stars to know more about them before the match, which eventually worked out for the team.

"We studied their last game against Remo Stars and this gave us an insight into their style of play and that's exactly what they did here but we outsmarted them", he submitted.

Sunday Faleye registering his fourth goal of the season in a clinical way when he scored the first goal for the hosts towards the end of the first half. A nice exchange between Tolu Olaifa and Ibrahim Babalola had prompted a floated pass from the middle to the right side of the field and Sunday dazzled two defenders on him before he finished with his left to the bottom corner of the post in the 43rd minute to cap up a scintillating display in the half.

On resumption of the second half, the domineering display continued for Shooting Stars with the visitors also giving a fight from the defence to the attack and goal keeper Tambe Charles had to come out to save some dangerous incursions.

This was the situation until 79th minute when Tornadoes' substitute Ammeh Wilfred equalized to silence the home fans. Ammeh came for Ebenezer Odeyemi early in the second half. Another substitution also saw Abubakar Mohammed come in for Bolaji Adeyemi. They added pep into their forays before the goal.

A free kick into six yards was over looked by 3SC's Promise Ebiaku before Hamzat Owolabi nodded down for unmarked Ammeh for a cool finish and equalizer for the away team.

Shooting Stars fought back from the restart and earned two successive corners. Lekan Bola had taken a short one before a neat one-two touch involving Tolu, Babalola and Assiri who tapped it in, to bring the stadium alive again with a 2-1 scoreline.