Akwa United delivered an impressive performance in the NPFL, earning their first away point of the season with a goalless draw against Bendel Insurance at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

The result comes as a huge relief for Fatai Osho who has been under pressure due to Akwa United’s poor start to the season.

Although the Promise Keepers are still without a win after five games this season, Osho is pleased with the point and praised his team’s excellent tactical strategy.

“You can’t take anything away from Bendel Insurance team because they are well organized, I can remember vividly how they played in the super-six championship playoffs in Lagos at the end of last season, they still have the same coach and maintain the same playing philosophy, so we came prepared with the knowledge of the team and we told our players what to do to slow them down while looking for the chance to hit them offensively,” the Akwa United boss said.

“In terms of slowing them down, we did a wonderful job in that area, because we knew the long balls
will come and we were able to drop our backline consistently so those balls will not come behind us.

“So the tactical agreement on our part was superb the way our players carried them out but going forward in our offensive play, we didn’t do too well because on transition especially in the wide areas we didn’t really explore too much probably because we started with three center forward players who were unable to do well in the wide areas.

“We want to compensate ourselves with the one point from this game and going home we have two straight home games and the confidence level will rise and we can just start our winning season from there,” He said.

Despite their winless run, Akwa United holds the record for the most away goals scored (five goals) so far this season.