The Plateau United Sentinel
Match12 Feb 2028
Cruel end for Enyimba as Plateau United pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Plateau United scored in the 92th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Market14 Feb 2028
Gimba Ajiji asks to leave Plateau United
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Alukam Iwuorie keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Plateau United may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Victor Dawa in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Plateau United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Chinemerem Ugwueze falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match12 Feb 2028
Joshua Ogunjobi sends Plateau United past Enyimba
It finished 1‑0, and it was Joshua Ogunjobi’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Plateau United.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Victor Dawa stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.61 on the card, and the Plateau United support went home talking about one name.
Squad14 Feb 2028
John Amah has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Plateau United will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Alao Dabani runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Albert Hilary
- Market Vincent Temitope leaves for nothing
- Market Domnan Panse placed on the list