NPFL 25: My Mandate Is To Save Nasarawa United From Relegation - Salisu Yusuf

NPFL 25: My Mandate Is To Save Nasarawa United From Relegation - Salisu Yusuf

Precious Oham

New Technical Adviser of Nasarawa United, Salisu Yusuf has maintained that his mandate is to ensure the team escaped the drop at the end of the 2024/2025 NPFL season, BSNSports.com.ng reports.

The former Super Eagles handler, who was brought in alongside Bashiru Muhammad gave the assurance after beating Remo Stars in his first task in a match day 26 NPFL encounter. Anas Yusuf's 25th-minute goal was all Nasarawa United needed to scoop all three points off league leaders on Wednesday afternoon at the Lafia City Stadium.

Left-back Mubarak Hussaini's dangerous cross into the box was met by the league's leading goalscorer, Anas, who tucked the ball into an empty net for his 14th goal of the season.

"It's a great result for us today, despite the tight schedules before this game. We only had two days to train because we needed to manage the fatigue.

"Within those few days, I tried to imprint my game plans into the players. We got our goal through a high press. I think the team has great potential to grow.

"We will work on our team cohesion so that the players will understand themselves better. We respect Remo Stars as the league leaders, but if you observed very well today, they couldn't create any goalscoring opportunity throughout the game.

"I am so proud of the performance of the boys today against the league leaders. The mandate to me is to rescue the team from being relegated, and I believe that is achievable."

The team will travel to Umuahia, Abia State, for a date with Abia Warriors on match-day 27, slated for Sunday, 2nd March 2025, before returning to host Sunshine Stars a week later in Lafia.