The first Nigeria Professional Football League game in 2020 between MFM FC and Nasarawa United ended goalless at the Agege Stadium, Lagos on Wednesday evening.

The Match Day 11 clash which is also the first game of the new decade saw a struggling Nasarawa United looking to secure its second league win against an average MFM.

The Olukoya Boys at the early stages of the game were in controlling possessions while pegging their visitors in their own half in search for an early goal.

In the 10th minute, the away side should have opened the scoring through Tayo Fabiyi but for the heroics of MFM goal tender, Abayomi Folarin.

As the game wore, the Olukoya Boys began to fashion out goal scoring chances but were wasteful in front of goal.

In the 16th minute, MFM’s Akanni Elijah picked out Oriyomi Lawal with a defence-splitting pass, who beats his marker to the ball but couldn’t get a shot on target to the agony of the coaching crew.

Interestingly, towards the end of the first half, the visitors had a good spell as they played some tiki-taka football which the Lagos fans acknowledged and applauded them for.

At the restart of the second half with both sides remaining unchanged in terms of playing personnel, MFM once again had one of the best chances in the game but just as they did in the first half, they failed to take them.

In the 60th minute, Elijah found Adeniji in space in the box who slided the ball with his right foot but it narrowly went off target.

Desperate to score, the home side were being kicked and got freekicks in the process which they failed again to utilize well.

In the 83rd minute, it was a major scare for home side as Nasarawa substitute Dauda rounded off Folarin but his effort was cleared off the line by defender Joshua Akpudje who injured himself in the process to help his team share the spoils.

Following this result, MFM dropped down to 10th position with 16 points while Nasarawa Utd overtook Enugu Rangers to take up the 19th position with 7 points.

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