SHARKS’ 2-0 win over Bayelsa United on Match Day 21 ended their four-match misery and brought a huge sigh of relief to the players and technical bench.
That convincing display in Port Harcourt has also heightened the expectations of former junior international, Adeyinka Adedeji, who is now looking forward to their repeat of the early season good run that saw the club at the pinnacle of the log for as much as nine match days.
Riding high on the crest of a 10-match unbeaten wave, Sharks eventually surrendered their invincibility on Match Day 17 in a fixture away to FC Taraba and followed up that loss with three other defeats to champions Kano Pillars and Akwa United (who beat them home and away).
But former Flying Eagles star, Adedeji, who put up an impressive display in Sharks’ home win during which he set-up the team’s opening goal for Abraham Okereke, told www.lmc-ng.org after the encounter that the team’s unity in the face of a bad spell has paid off.
“Before the game, every one of us spoke with one another, we’ve lost four games consecutively and we don’t want to start our home run in the second stanza that way. So we decided to make it count,” said the former Shooting Stars player.
Adedeji, a member of the silver-winning Holland 2005 FIFA Under-20 World Cup, is gradually becoming a regular in the Sharks side after being frozen out of the squad at the start of the campaign partly due to injury and partly due to the good form of Chima Akas. He has high hopes that Wednesday’s win has signaled the start of another good run.
“This is a good start for us, we’ve done it before, going ten games undefeated so we just have to keep our heads up and hope to follow it up with our next game against Lobi Stars and let’s see how it goes from there,” Adedeji remarked.
