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Abia Warriors Plots Wikki Tourists Downfall

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Abia Warriors of Umuahia, will today at the Pantami Stadium, Gombe lock horns with Wikki Tourists of Bauchi in one of the Matchday 10 fixtures of the 2019/2020 Nigeria Professional League Season.

The Umuahia Warlords still basking in the Euphoria of their third home win of the season aganist Jigawa GSFC will look foward to upset the ‘Giant Elephants’ so as to consolidate their midweek Win and still be among top 10 teams on the log.

In-form Wikki who has been having strings of good form will look forward to bounce back to winning ways haven been piped by Warri Wolves at away on Matchday Nine (9).

Matches between the two sides are usually characterised with lots of action, suspense and goal feast as both teams play more of attacking football coupled with the calibre of experienced players the two sides has in their ranks.

The Umuahia Warlords will be banking on the trio of Jimoh Oni, Emmauel Ugwuka and Lukuman Bello to secure their first away win of the season while the Bauchi based clubside will bank on the experienced attacking trio of Daniel Jackson, Sikiru Kamal and Musa Newman to ensure the Umuahia Warlords return to Umuahia empty handed.

Abia Warriors gaffer Emmauel Deutsch in a chat confirmed the full level fitness of all the Players in Gombe and went ahead to divulge on the possibility of making Changes in the team that were fielded at the midweek.

Wikki Tourists Head Coach Garba Ibrahim who was unable to be reached out to by Abia Warriors Media Crew in a telephone Call is expected to effect changes in the team that were paraded aganist Warri Wolves.

Midfield maestro Sikiru Kamal who was on the bench aganist Warri Wolves might return to the starting line up alongside Newman Musa, Daniel Jackson and Mubarak Umar.

Possible Line Up:Wikki Tourist
Yusuf Mohammed (GK), Peter Ambrose,Franklin Anthony, Jumbo Wisdom, Mubarak Umar, Daniel Jackson, Sixtus Forsah, Musa Newman, Promise Damala,Sikiru Kamal,Hassan Hussein.

Abia Warriors: Uche Okafor (GK), Austin Obaroakpo, Parfait Jean, Fatai Abdullahi, Innocent Gabriel, Ozor Chinedu, Jimoh Oni, Ugwuka Emmauel, Bello Lukman, Zinte Udeh, Paul Samson.

Both Team Five (5) Matches Form Guide:
Wikki Tourist: DWLDL.
Abia Warriors: WDDLW

HEAD-TO-HEAD MATCHES
2015- Abia Warriors 1 🆚️ 2 Wikki Tourist
2015- Wikki Tourist 2 🆚️ 0 Abia Warriors
2016- Abia Warriors 0 🆚️ 0 Wikki Tourist
2016- Wikki Tourist 2 🆚️ 0 Abia Warriors
2017- Abia Warriors 2 🆚️ 0 Wikki Tourist
2017- Wikki Tourist 3 🆚️ 0 Abia Warriors
2018- Abia Warriors 2 🆚️ 0 Wikki Tourist