It feels great to be back again.

I welcome you to the match preview for Matchday 10 in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL).

The NPFL resume on matchday 10 as 12 matches will go down at different venues. No action went down over the weekend due to the Presidential election which was however postponed by the electorial body to the 23th day of February 2019. It was not at any point a good news to millions of Nigerians after so many years have been taken in preparation of that particular election as the country was being put to a stand still, and to all sports fans in particular no sporting events went down throughout last weekend. The EPL on the other hand didn't give us any eye-catching fixtures over the weekend and there was no super match in the FA Cup as well except an electrifying Monday night football at Stanford Bridge.

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Now let's go to the Star Match of the day.

Akwa United vs FC Ifeanyi Ubah

The match will go down at the 30,000 capacity Nest of Champions, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.

Both teams are enjoying best of form currently in this campaign as they both enjoy 3 wins and a draw in their last five games.

Akwa United commonly known as the "promise keepers" recorded their worst form to the start of the season in this campaign as they were only able to gather only two points after 4 games. Akwa United result had a total turnaround when they met Go Round FC on matchday 5 as they won 3-0 in front of their home fans. Since then they home side has not loose a game, picking up 10 points in four games, and scoring an impressive 9 goals and conceding only one (1) goal.

We can say that Akwa United Coach Everton has been able to address control the dressing room and also giving the boys the need motivation to tackle each game.

Mfon Udoh of Akwa United is currently the highest goal scorer with five (5) goals fellowed by Ndifreke Effiong another Akwa United forward. These two forward will be up against a very discipline FC Ifeanyi Ubah defense which has not given the attackers reason to smile so far this season.

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FC Ifeanyi Ubah is one of the privately owned club in the country and it has witness a huge improvement over the years. They are currently on top of the log with 18 points after 9 matches. The "Anambra Warriors" lead by Coach Mitko Dobrev has only been defected once this season and they hope to continue with such a great form.

The team has been paraded the highest number of foreign players, with the likes of William Silva from Brazil, Medrano Ramen and Fabrice Ngoma from Cameroon, Nico Dao from Mali, Pascal Seka from Ivory Coast, and Koffi Boakye from Ghana all coming together to make sure the club attain greater heights.

FC Ifeanyi Ubah has concerned the least numbers of goals (3) showing how composed and discipline their defense is.

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Head to Head

Both teams has meet 7 times in the last four years. Akwa United has only been able to pull out a win on two occasions, 2 draws, and loosing 3 times to the Anambra Warriors. In all this games Akwa United has never loose at home to FC Ifeanyi Ubah.

The last time both teams had an encounter was on the 31.01.2018 and it ended in a 1:1 draw at the Nest of Champions.

Verdicts: I pull my support for my home side today to pick up a 1:0 win against the Anambra Warriors.

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So sorry for not coming around as I promised, this is due to the fact that I'm trying to get my students set for their Senior Secondary Examination.

Thank you for coming around.

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