NQSA Pepper AlJazeera In SW Regional League Opener, LIFCA Held By ISOHSA

The South West regional Championship matched its usual height of color and flamboyance at the Limbe Middle Farms stadium on Thursday, April 14th.

Two games were on the cards, and aside from the opening festival that included a melange of cultural and urban music, the on-the-pitch action was quite enthralling.

In the first game of the season, Njalla Quan Sports Academy wowed the over 5 thousand supporters who turned up to watch the beautiful game.

Not that pundits expected them to do less against AlJazeera Sports Academy. Infact, there were moments of panic between the line, that nearly spoiled the party for the NQSA boys.

Tetteh Edwin and his lads opened a wide 3-0 gap in the first half.

The goals came from Kum Landry, Lord Egbe and Zambala Mbassi.

Then came the moment of stage fright as earlier highlighted. Ntenthia Herbert put his side back into contention before the pose, before a 50th minute own goal from Bobson Umtiti, further plunged the Bimbia boys into immediate danger.

Well, there’s a saying that goes around for those keen followers of Cameroon football.

‘when a team knows they’re in danger, they are no longer in danger.’ Rigobert Song’s ‘lyrics’ good enough to make any team’s locker room set in.

As NQSA knew that they were in danger, they defended for their lives and got a late decider from their man of the match winning captain, Zambala Mbassi in the game’s latter stages. It ended 4-2 in favour of NQSA.

The second game was less eventual and ended zero-all, in what was a cagy affair as both coaches of ISOHSA (Njoku Barnabas) and Moses (LIFCA) had a fierce tactical battle.

Mbondi Mulute Francis ended up man of the match after some electrical display in the middle of the park for ISOHSA. NQSA hence leads pool A, while ISOSAH and LIFCA both shared the spoils in group B.