Akure Gunners maintain top spot at mid-season
- nationalpilot
- Jul 21, 2015
- 1 min read
Sunshine Stars survived a scare from bottom club FC Taraba on Sunday to claim a 2-1 home win in a Week 19 match and end the first round of the Nigeria league as the leaders.
Sunshine thus lead the 20-team table with 36 points from 19 matches.
Taraba stunned the league leaders when they took the lead in the 12th minute through Stephen Adah's header.
The man of the moment Tunde Adeniji equalised for the hosts Sunshine Stars with a minute left to play in the first half.
In the 50th minute, Adeniji gave Sunshine Stars the lead for the first time in the game to complete his brace.
In the early minutes of the game, Sunshine duo of Adeniji and Dele Olorundare missed scoring chances.
In the 40th minute, Adeniji shot from edge of box was saved by Kawawa in Taraba goal
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