Wazobia through to Q/final

…NYSC dump Police out of FA Cup

Action from this year's state FA cup

 It was a sweet victory for Wazobia Football Club of Lugbe as they scale through to the quarter-final of this year’s Federal Capital Territory, FCT Football Association, FA Cup.

The Aregbe boys as they are widely known defeated Alpha Football Club by 2-1 to get to this stage of the competition. The two goals were by Wale Soneye.

Wale scored the first goal in the 15^th minute of play from a through pass from Farouk Musa, Alpha got the equalizer in the 65^th minute before Wale converted a penalty in the 75^th after Uche Henry was brought down in the 18 yard box.

Chief coach of the team, Eze Paul popularly known as Lagerback said he will take every match as they come. His words, “Every match will determine how we will play. We respect every team in the competition but we are not afraid of any of them.

“Our next opponent, FC Abuja is a big name in the football circle in FCT but definitely we are not afraid of them. The match will be determined on the field of play and I believe my boys and the technical crew have all what it takes to give them a good match,” he concluded.

Wazobia, a Nationwide League One side will face Football Club, FC of Abuja, a Nigerian National League, NNL clubside owned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC in the quarter-final stage.

Recalled that Wazobia defeated Optimum Football Club of Kubwa in the round of 32; the Aregbe boys were losing by 0-2 before they fought back to level the game by 2-2. In the penalty shoot out, Wazobia goalkeeper, James saved two of the penalty to give his team the game. The game ended 4-2.

In a related development, the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC eliminated the Nigerian Police team, Police Machine from this year’s Federal Capital Territory, FCT Football Association, FA Cup.

The highly contested match saw the game ended in 1-1 draw in regulation time. The goalkeepers of both teams were busy throughout the match as they made great saves from the strikers of both teams.

In the penalty shoot-out, the NYSC goalkeeper saved the first penalty while one of his players lost his to level the shoot-out. However, Police Machine player later played the ball wide to give the NYSC the win.

The penalty shoot-out ended 4-3 in favour of the NYSC team.