{"id":14322,"date":"2024-01-14T09:38:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T09:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=14322"},"modified":"2024-01-14T09:38:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T09:38:18","slug":"doma-united-stumble-in-title-push-defeated-3-0-by-abia-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/14\/doma-united-stumble-in-title-push-defeated-3-0-by-abia-warriors\/","title":{"rendered":"Doma United Stumble in Title Push: Defeated 3-0 by Abia Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adekunle Samuel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Doma United\u2019s Premier League title ambitions took a blow on Saturday afternoon as they were beaten 3-0 by Abia Warriors in their final away game of the first round.<\/p>\n<p>A resolute Doma United\u2019s defense held firm for 43 minutes before the dam broke, with Ifeanyi Anaemena converting a penalty to send the hosts into the break ahead. The second half brought little joy for Doma United. Seven minutes after the restart, Sunday Megwo doubled the Warriors\u2019 lead with a composed finish past Kingdom Osayi.<\/p>\n<p>Desperate for a comeback, Doma United made a double substitution, but their hopes were dashed in the 97th minute when Adejoh Ojonugwa added a third for Abia Warriors. The loss dropped Doma United down to fourth place on the table, leapfrogged by Plateau United (3rd) who overcame defending champions Enyimba 1-0 in another match.<\/p>\n<p>Frustration was evident throughout the Doma United performance, with Kingdom Osayi, Haruna Aliyu, and Zaidu Mohammed all seeing yellow cards. The Gombe-based side will be keen to put this setback behind them and get back on track when they host Rivers United next Saturday at the Pantami Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adekunle Samuel Doma United\u2019s Premier League title ambitions took a blow on Saturday afternoon as they were beaten 3-0 by Abia Warriors in their final away game of the first round. A resolute Doma United\u2019s defense held firm for 43 minutes before the dam broke, with Ifeanyi Anaemena converting a penalty to send the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":14323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14324,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14322\/revisions\/14324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}