High flying Abia Warriors will fancy their chances of taking all three points when they welcome beleaguered Giwa FC to the Umuahia Township Stadium this weekend.
The home team are building a reputation of being the league’s draw specialist as they have drawn 6 games (the highest in the league) this season with their tie against FC Ifeanyi Ubah last weekend also ending in a share of the spoils for both teams.
Buoyed by hat away point, the Umuahia based club will be played at home hoping to add more woes on the visitiors, cautiously though they have drawn 3 and won 4 out of their 7 games played at home this season amasing 15pts from an available 21 in the process.
Giwa FC failed to honour their NPFL tie against Wikki Tourists in Ilorin and risk demotion to the lower league if they miss another.
Articles 13.27 and 13.28 of the LMC rulebook explain that missing three matches cumulatively without an acceptable reason to the LMC results in expulsion from the top flight, and the annulling of the team's results to date.
Giwa FC will hope to cast their off the pitch troubles aside and stop the rot they are in.
They are on a five game losing streak (including the games walked over) with that record stretching as far back as a month ago when they beat Kano Pillars 2:0 in Jos. Will they turn up for this encounter? It remains to be seen if they will.
