Niger Tornadoes upset Plateau United in Minna
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he added that the victory would help to move the club away from their 14th position on the league table1 coach hamza abara of niger tornadoes football club of minna on sunday praised his players after upsetting visiting plateau united fc of jos with a 1-0 defeat1 tornadoes scored the only goal of the match via a penalty kick in the 31st minute after goal-bound babawo was brought down by golbe for plateau united. hussaini isah slotted the the ball into the net1 what we planned from the pre-match analysis was to defeat plateau united no matter our pattern of play today1 and to god be the glory. we have succeeded in picking the maximum three points. so i am happy abara told nan after the match played at the bako kontagora memorial stadium in minna1 the news agency of nigeria nan reports that the victory was in a match day 12 fixture of the 20172018 nigeria professional football league npfl1 plateau united are the defending champions but are now fourth on the league table five points adrift from leaders lobi stars1 abel iliya the team manager of plateau united said the match was a good game1 iliya said plateau united would go back to the drawing board to work out plans for subsequent matches1 it was a good game. in sports sometimes you win sometimes you lose1 this will make us to work hard he said1