{"id":5314,"date":"2026-11-01T04:30:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T04:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/01\/euromatch-npfl-ayeni-bemoans-doma-uniteds-home-draw-against-ikorodu-city\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T04:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T04:30:51","slug":"euromatch-npfl-ayeni-bemoans-doma-uniteds-home-draw-against-ikorodu-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/01\/euromatch-npfl-ayeni-bemoans-doma-uniteds-home-draw-against-ikorodu-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Euromatch NPFL: Ayeni Bemoans Doma United\u2019s Home Draw Against Ikorodu City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doma United technical adviser Ayodeji Ayeni has expressed disappointment after his side failed to secure maximum points against Ikorodu City in their Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, Matchday 11 encounter.<\/p>\n<p>The Savannah Tigers were held to an entertaining 2-2 draw by Ikorodu City at the Pantami Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<h3>Fierce Battle In Gombe<\/h3>\n<p>Doma United took the lead in the 19th minute through Bitrus Philemon, who calmly converted a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>However, the visitors responded five minutes later, with Tomiwa Awojobi finding the back of the net to restore parity.<\/p>\n<p>Ikorodu City appeared to have secured all three points when Ujunwa Elijah scored in the 85th minute to give the visitors a late lead.<\/p>\n<p>But Philemon emerged as Doma United\u2019s saviour, netting deep into stoppage time to earn the hosts a share of the spoils.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/euromatch-npfl-ayeni-confident-doma-united-will-recover-lost-points\/\">Euromatch NPFL: Ayeni Confident Doma United Will Recover Lost Points<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Ayeni Disappointed With Home Draw<\/h3>\n<p>Reacting after the game, Ayeni admitted his disappointment with the result, particularly given his team\u2019s recent struggles to maximise home advantage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy reaction is negative for a team that played three home games and drew two and won one,\u201d Ayeni said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a team that started the season on a bright note, but skipped along the line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut be it as it may, that\u2019s football, as the chemistry with us isn\u2019t just there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The draw leaves Doma United in 10th position on the NPFL table with 15 points from 11 matches.<\/p>\n<p>Ayeni\u2019s side will now turn their attention to their next league fixture, where they will travel to face Abia Warriors.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Adeboye Amosu <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doma United technical adviser Ayodeji Ayeni has expressed disappointment after his side failed to secure maximum points against Ikorodu City in their Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, Matchday 11 encounter.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}