{"id":2161,"date":"2025-02-20T07:49:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T07:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2025-02-20T07:49:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T07:49:42","slug":"whyte-hails-fighting-spirit-of-bayelsa-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/whyte-hails-fighting-spirit-of-bayelsa-queens\/","title":{"rendered":"Whyte hails fighting spirit of Bayelsa Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By David Owei,Bayelsa<\/p>\n<p>Bayelsa Queens Technical Adviser, Whyte Ogbonda has praised his players for not losing focus at the crucial moment in Wednesday\u2019s 19th February, 2025, 2-1 home win over visiting Naija Ratels in a NWFL Matchday 6 fixture in Yenagoa.<\/p>\n<p>The Prosperity Girls defeated Naija Ratels through Dooshima Tarnum and Delight Isaac goals in the 73rd and 77th minutes after coming from behind as Adama Nwachukwu netted for Naija Ratels in the 71st minute with a header, after Florence Alexandra had missed a penalty for Bayelsa Queens in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Whyte, while speaking to journalists shortly after the encounter, said his girls showed the zeal and determination to seal the three points and that despite conceding a goal in the 71st minute, the girls were never troubled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were eager to get the three points and we were aware Naija Ratels are a good side and won\u2019t allow us to have our way easily,\u201d Whyte told journalists in Yenagoa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe planned for them and we were just focused on the three points and we are thrilled we got it. It was a very good and exciting game from both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whyte said everything in line is possible but they know that nothing happens without hard work, and that they will continue to work harder and continue to see how they can grow as a team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a lot of young players in the team. Some of them just got their topflight breakthrough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t lose focus at the time we were down by a lone goal and I am happy by the quick response of my girls. We continued to do the same thing we have been doing and taking the game to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next for Bayelsa Queens is an away fixture against FC Robo Queens of Lagos, who lost 1-4 to Delta Queens in Asaba, on Wednesday 26th February, 2025, to end the first stanza of the NWFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Owei,Bayelsa Bayelsa Queens Technical Adviser, Whyte Ogbonda has praised his players for not losing focus at the crucial moment in Wednesday\u2019s 19th February, 2025, 2-1 home win over visiting Naija Ratels in a NWFL Matchday 6 fixture in Yenagoa. The Prosperity Girls defeated Naija Ratels through Dooshima Tarnum and Delight Isaac goals in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[1254,1314,1316,1313,1315],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-determination","tag-encounter","tag-fixture","tag-players","tag-sportsmanship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}