As the preliminary group matches of the football event of the 19th Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry Games wind up on Wednesday (today), Team NCDMB have emerged as the first qualifiers for the quarter-finals of the competition.
After their 5-1 demolition of ExxonMobil on March-day 1, NCDMB followed that up with a comprehensive 4-0 thrashing of ARADEL at the Shell Residential Area Football field in Port Harcourt on Tuesday.
With the victory, NCDMB maintained the top spot in Group 4 with maximum points and the first team to win a quarter-finals ticket.
In other matches, NLNG pipped TotalEnergies 1-0, leaving the losers in a precarious position, even as they still lead the group on superior goal difference. The leadership of the group will be determined today after NLNG’s match against SEPLAT, who lost their opening game against TotalEnergies.
In other matches today, ExxonMobil square up against ARADEL while NUPRC take on CHEVRON in a Group 2 match.
Champions NNPC and SHELL rekindle their old rivalry in the last match of the day.
