{"id":8414,"date":"2022-09-24T11:22:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T11:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/?p=8414"},"modified":"2022-09-24T11:22:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T11:22:53","slug":"optima-energy-gold-cup-remo-stars-survive-hammola-scare-to-record-first-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/optima-energy-gold-cup-remo-stars-survive-hammola-scare-to-record-first-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Optima Energy Gold Cup: Remo Stars survive Hammola scare to record first win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Defending Optima Energy Gold Cup champion, Remo Stars brightened the chances of qualifying from the ‘group of death’ after they humbled stubborn Hammola FC 4-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first fixture of Matchday 3 lived up to the billing as two fabulous goals were scored from set plays by both teams in the first half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hammola, a Nationwide League One Division One team from Osun State, were brave enough to take a surprise lead in the 11th minute via a set-piece from Olajugba Ayokunle that beat goalkeeper Charles Tambe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experienced Cameroon shot stopped and could not help but spill the ball into his own goal as he attempted to force a save.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hammola’s one-goal lead only lasted for 23 minutes, as Remo Stars Odibo Godwin got the equaliser after a lovely finish from a Seun Odunsi assist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With the game nearing half-time, Hammola regained the lead courtesy of a cool finish from Olarenwaju Habeeb, who beat his marker to lob the ball beyond the reach of Tambe, to the top right corner of the goal to make it 2-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former MFM and Enyimba right-back Stanley Okorom displayed captain stuff, as he put the game on level terms with a sublime free kick in the first minute of added time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eleven minutes into the second half, Remo Stars showed why they’re an NPFL side, after Mujeeb Odufeso punished Hammola’s backline, creating space for himself to score his team\u2019s third with a decent finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the NLO side searched for their third goal, they then got punished on the counterattack in added time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samuel Anakwe put the game beyond Hammola with the sixth goal of the game and fourth for Remo Stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Defending Optima Energy Gold Cup champion, Remo Stars brightened the chances of qualifying from the ‘group of death’ after they humbled stubborn Hammola FC 4-2. The first fixture of Matchday 3 lived up to the billing as two fabulous goals were scored from set plays by both teams in the first half. Hammola, a Nationwide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[1642,1548,1661,3069,77,3169],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8418,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8414\/revisions\/8418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}