Niger Tornadoes technical adviser Majin Mohammed expressed disappointment with his team’s draw against Kun Khalifat, admitting that his players underestimated their opponents.
The Minna-based team were held to a 1-1 draw by the newly-promoted side on Sunday, when both sides clashed on matchday seven of the 2025/26 NPFL season.
The home side headed into the clash on the back of three wins from their opening six league matches and a 100% record at home.
They looked on course to make it four wins from four home matches, when they took the lead in the first half through a stunning strike from Abba Khalid.
“Well, there was nothing wrong with our approach to the game, especially when playing at home, the plan was the same, which was to win.
“But in football, three things are involved, either you win, draw or lose, irrespective of wherever you are playing, but, the bottom line was, the players judged Kun Khalifat FC based on the position they are occupying on the league table and I warned of such”, Majin Mohammed revealed after the match.
“Secondly, fatigue equally tell, we travelled to Port Harcourt , played on Wednesday came back on Thursday and arrived at night so we couldn’t do anything on Friday, we only had a shake up with almost the same players with travel with.”
Niger Tornadoes wasted several chances to build on their lead and were pegged back when Akuta Ugochukwu equalized for the visitors late in the second half.
They remain seventh on the standings with 10 points, six points behind Nasarawa United in first place.
” I think we didn’t play badly like some people would think, but we didn’t take our chances but is football for you, I appeal to our people to be calm, whatever we lose here we can equally get it back elsewhere, others even lost at home, so we should thank God for the point gained”, he continued.
The Minna Boys are back in action on Sunday, when they visit Warri Wolves, hoping to secure their first away point of the season.
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