{"id":87586,"date":"2023-05-07T10:24:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T09:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=87586"},"modified":"2023-05-07T10:22:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T09:22:56","slug":"bayelsa-united-target-rivers-uniteds-scalp-in-port-harcourt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/bayelsa-united-target-rivers-uniteds-scalp-in-port-harcourt","title":{"rendered":"Bayelsa United target Rivers United\u2019s scalp in Port-Harcourt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Bayelsa United will look to shock their hosts Rivers United at their fortress in Port Harcourt on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers United are unbeaten at home in the Nigeria Premier Football League this season.<\/p>\n<p>Bayelsa United are hoping to gatecrash into Super Six reckoning and a win at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium, Port Harcourt will be vital in achieving that objective.<\/p>\n<p>The Restoration Boys will be counting on the likes of top scorers Robert Mizo, Stephen Wisdom and Alex Oyowah to deliver the goods for them in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams played out a 2-2 draw in the reverse fixture in Yenagoa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Bayelsa United will look to shock their hosts Rivers United at their fortress in Port Harcourt on Sunday. Rivers United are unbeaten at home in the Nigeria Premier Football League this season. Bayelsa United are hoping to gatecrash into Super Six reckoning and a win at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium, Port Harcourt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":87585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[1570,2140,9862,254,3352,2167],"class_list":["post-87586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-bayelsa-united","tag-nigeria","tag-port-harcourt","tag-rivers-united"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bayelsa United target Rivers United\u2019s scalp in Port-Harcourt - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bayelsa United will look to shock their hosts Rivers United at their fortress in Port Harcourt on Sunday. 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