Match Report
1 points and 2 places separated them: Bendel Insurance 5th with 56, Abia Warriors 7th with 55. On recent form Abia Warriors sat only 18th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 7th overall. Per game in the league, Bendel Insurance were scoring 1.16 and conceding 1, Abia Warriors 0.82 and 0.89, against a competition average of 1.01 goals per team per game.
5 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Bendel Insurance 1, draws 2, Abia Warriors 2, at 0.6 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 40% of those meetings. Historically tight: 0% of the meetings went beyond two goals.
The match was played at Uniben Sport Complex (capacity 1,000). It was 0-0 at the break, and the second half added 1 goal for the 1-0 full-time score.
Goal scorers
Bendel Insurance: Chinedu Nwosu (78')