NPFL: Victory over Wikki Tourists, big boost to Rangers followers

Emphatic manner in which serial Nigerian league winners, Rangers International F.C dispatched visiting Wikki Tourists F.C of Bauchi has raised fresh hope to their followers

Harvesting the highest number of goals in a make-or-break encounter clearly shows that players, coaches, management and above all, the government of Rt. Hon. (Dr.) Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi whose support has always been a constant like the stars in the sky, understands perfectly what the club means to its millions of followers all over the world.

It won’t be out of place to state that visit by the Honorable Commissioner for Youth & Sports, Enugu State, Manfred Nzekwe to the squad where he promised on behalf of His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Enugu state governor, each player of the match day squad, a handsome cash reward, to a large extent, increased the motivation level for the massive win

Yes, there may be a letdown in the overall expectations from the team in the fast ending league season that saw the Antelopes slide down the log for a long part of the season, there has been a steady and quite rise in the haulage of points that has seen the team go unbeaten in 540 minutes (Six matches).

With nineteen points from sixteen matches played, scoring fifteen goals and leaking same number and placed 7th on the ten team log, the Enugu landlords still have an outside chance of picking a top three ticket at the end of the regular race as there is still six points to jostle for that will increase its haulage to twenty-five points.

Even, when this might slip, there is a very big opportunity in the Federation Cup 2023 where the six-time national cup winners are already in the round of 32 fixtures against Kano Pillars with a repeat of the result of 2018 finals in the now famous ‘Asaba Miracles’ expected for further progress towards lifting the 7th Federation cup.

The achievements of the season thus far could not have been possible without the express support of Enugu State Governor, H.E, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi through the Commissioner for Youth & Sports, Hon. Manfred Nzekwe and much can be done before the end of the current regime.