{"id":5601,"date":"2026-11-01T11:30:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/01\/euromatch-npfl-ikorodu-city-coach-praises-players-resilience-after-draw-against-doma-united\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T11:30:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:30:58","slug":"euromatch-npfl-ikorodu-city-coach-praises-players-resilience-after-draw-against-doma-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/01\/euromatch-npfl-ikorodu-city-coach-praises-players-resilience-after-draw-against-doma-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Euromatch NPFL: Ikorodu City Coach Praises Players\u2019 Resilience After Draw Against Doma United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ikorodu City assistant coach Washington Egor has praised his players for their resilience and determination following their dramatic 2-2 draw against Doma United in the Nigeria Premier Football League,NPFL.<\/p>\n<p>The Oga Boys produced an impressive performance in the Matchday 11 encounter played at the Pantami Stadium on Saturday, despite the long journey to Gombe.<\/p>\n<p>Doma United took the lead in the 19th minute through Bitrus Philemon, who converted a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ikorodu City responded five minutes later, with Tomiwa Awojobi finding the equaliser to restore parity.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors looked set to claim all three points after Ujunwa Elijah scored in the 85th minute to give Ikorodu City a 2-1 advantage.<\/p>\n<p>However, Philemon struck again deep into stoppage time, denying the Lagos-based side victory and securing a point for the hosts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/euromatch-npfl-ayeni-bemoans-doma-uniteds-home-draw-against-ikorodu-city\/\">Euromatch NPFL: Ayeni Bemoans Doma United\u2019s Home Draw Against Ikorodu City<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Egor Talks Up Away Draw<\/h3>\n<p>Egor commended his players for their fighting spirit, particularly after travelling by road for almost 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to give kudos to the players for showing resilience in the game despite the distance covered in travelling by road to Gombe,\u201d Egor told NPFL media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur intention was to pick the maximum points, but a point is good for our pains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTravelling down for almost 24 hours and picking a point far back in the north is a big motivation for us ahead of our next game in Lagos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ikorodu City currently sit 11th on the NPFL table with 14 points from 11 matches.<\/p>\n<p>The Oga Boys will now turn their attention to their next league fixture, where they will host local rivals Inter Lagos in a Lagos derby.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ikorodu City assistant coach Washington Egor has praised his players for their resilience and determination following their dramatic 2-2 draw against Doma United in the Nigeria Premier Football League,NPFL. The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5601","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\/5601","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=5601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}