The Bendel Insurance Post
Player ratings22 Feb 2038
Okuhle Majavu runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad22 Feb 2038
Tempers go at Bendel Insurance
Brayann Nana was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad22 Feb 2038
Naphtali Agada 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.
Match20 Feb 2038
Bendel Insurance cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad22 Feb 2038
No hiding place for Efe Obiomo
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Efe Obiomo, and the manager let it.
Match20 Feb 2038
A bad afternoon for Bendel Insurance against Warri Wolves
0‑2 to Warri Wolves, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad22 Feb 2038
When it matters, Abbati Musa plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Player ratings22 Feb 2038
The chances came and went for Efe Obiomo
12 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
Player ratings22 Feb 2038
Mateo Sierra never got going
5.72 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
In brief
- Market The Visham Ayuba talk will not go away
- Market Chidera Kalu leaves for nothing
- Market William Umar leaves for nothing