The Ikorodu City Chronicle
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Both of them Chidera Oparaocha's — 9.17
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.17, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market15 Feb 2027
Samuel Ezekiel has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Ikorodu City they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Ikorodu City count the cost of losing Dennis Oduya
32 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Match13 Feb 2027
Ikorodu City cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Ikorodu City
Tosin Oyedokun and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match13 Feb 2027
Ikorodu City find a way past Bayelsa United
Bayelsa United made Ikorodu City work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Rasheed Owolabi was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The terraces15 Feb 2027
The crowd has taken to Naheem Odugbemi
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
A masterclass from Naheem Odugbemi
Marked 8.25 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
- Squad Ibifubara Dagogo signs on for more
- The dugout Ibrahim Abdullahi: “That is the standard”
- Squad Malik Afoke falls out with a teammate over standards