The NPFL is on mid-term break, leaving us little or no action to stimulate conversations since Enyimba spanked Shooting Stars 3-0 in Aba on December 28, 2025. The next scheduled matchday will come up on January 14, against the same opposition – but this time in Ibadan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amid reports of player transfers – exit and entry – in this mid season, the interval affords us the time and opportunity to take stock and present a statistical review of the first half of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LEAGUE TABLE (Overall)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Played: 19 |Won: 7 |Drew: 5 |Lost: 7<\/p>\n\n\n\n Goals Scored: 24 |Goals Against: 19 |Goal Deference: +5 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Points: 26<\/p>\n\n\n\n Home League Table<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Played: 10 |Won: 6 |Drew: 2 |Lost: 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n Goals Scored: 15 |Goals Against: 7 |Goal Deference: +8<\/p>\n\n\n\n Points: 20 (*from a possible 30)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Away League Table<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Played: 9 |Won: 1 |Drew: 3 |Lost: 5<\/p>\n\n\n\n Goals Scored: 9 |Goals Against: 13 |Goal Deference: -3<\/p>\n\n\n\n Points: 6<\/p>\n\n\n\n LEADING GOAL SCORERS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chidera Michael – 6 |Edidiong Ezekiel – 4 |Kalu Nweke – 3 |Joseph Abiodun – 2 |Stanley Dimgba – 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n MOST APPEARANCE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Afolayan Peters – 18 |Edidiong Ezekiel – 17 |Salman Abubakar – 17 |Kelvin Ogunga – 16 |Kalu Nweke – 15 |Michael Chidera – 15<\/p>\n\n\n\n MOST MATCHDAY STARTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Afolayan Peters: 18 |Kelvin Ogunga: 15 |Kalu Nweke: 15 |Edidiong Ezekiel: 14 |Salman Abubakar: 14 <\/p>\n\n\n\n COACHES’ CORNER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Stanley Eguma\/Ndubuisi Nduka: In Charge: 13 |Won: 4 |Drew: 5 |Lost: 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lawrence Ukaegbu: “Interim Charge<\/em>“: 6 |Won: 3 |Drew: 0 |Lost: 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n GOALKEEPERS’ NUMBERS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Kelvin Ogunga: |Starts: 15, |Goals Against: 13, |Clean sheet: 8<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anozie Chinedu: |Starts: 2, |Goals Against: 3, |Clean sheet: 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dare Dede: |Starts: 2, |Goals Against: 3, |Clean sheet: 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n STARTING BERTHS AT RIGHT-BACK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Joel Ezra – 11<\/p>\n\n\n\n Christian Molokwu – 5<\/p>\n\n\n\n Samuel Agu – 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n COMPETITION FOR LEFT-BACK POSITION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Solomon Ogberahwe – 11<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nwokeji Godswill – 7<\/p>\n\n\n\n Samuel Agu – 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n MOST STARTING CENTRE-BACK COMBO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Afolayan Peters – Mo Hussaini: 11<\/p>\n\n\n\n Afolayan Peters – Fabian Nwaorie: 5<\/p>\n\n\n\n Afolayan Peters – Pascal Eze: 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mohammed Hussaini – Pascal Eze: 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n MATCHDAY CAPTAINS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Kalu Nweke: 8<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ufere Chinedu: 6<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pascal Eze: 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n Afolayan Peters: 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n Atule Joseph: 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n The second half of the season will kick-start the coaching era of Ayodele Ayeni at Enyimba. While behind the scene awaiting his official presentation, he has had the time and closer view to enable him review the playing personnel at the club, identify areas in need of more investment for both material and technical upgrade. We will keep an eye on his work , and the performance of the team. And will crunch his numbers to tell the fuller story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n EnyimbaEnyi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The NPFL is on mid-term break, leaving us little or no action to stimulate conversations since Enyimba spanked Shooting Stars 3-0 in Aba on December 28, 2025. The next scheduled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"breadcrumbs_single_post":"","page_title_panel":"","breadcrumbs_single_page":"","single_page_alignment":"","single_page_margin":"","page_structure_type":"","content_style_source":"","content_style":"","blog_post_streched_ed":"","blog_page_streched_ed":"","has_transparent_header":"","disable_transparent_header":"","vertical_spacing_source":"","content_area_spacing":"","single_post_content_background":"","single_page_content_background":"","single_post_boxed_content_spacing":"","single_page_boxed_content_spacing":"","single_post_content_boxed_radius":"","single_page_content_boxed_radius":"","disable_featured_image":"","disable_post_tags":"","disable_author_box":"","disable_posts_navigation":"","disable_comments":"","disable_related_posts":"","disable_header":"","disable_footer":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_rishi_post_view_count":34},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","rishi-post"],"yoast_head":"\n