{"id":35284,"date":"2024-06-02T18:03:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T18:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/npfl-rangers-stay-top-gombe-united-relegated\/"},"modified":"2024-06-02T18:03:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T18:03:36","slug":"npfl-rangers-stay-top-gombe-united-relegated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/npfl-rangers-stay-top-gombe-united-relegated\/","title":{"rendered":"NPFL: Rangers stay top, Gombe United relegated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rangers maintained top spot in the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, following a 0-0 draw against Sporting Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>The Flying Antelopes top the standings with 61 points from 34 matches.<\/p>\n<p>Enyimba rallied to beat Rivers United 4-1 in a thrilling contest in Aba.<\/p>\n<p>Former Remo Stars forward Andy Okpe gave Rivers United the lead in the 14th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Chijioke Mbaoma and Elijah Akanni scored a brace each to hand Enyimba maximum points in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Enyimba maintained second position on the table following the win.<\/p>\n<p>Sunshine Stars eased their relegation worries following a 2-0 away win against Gombe United.<\/p>\n<p>Promise Awosanmi and Lucky Nwafor were the goal scorers for the visitors in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Gombe United were relegated to the Nigeria National League (NNL) following the defeat.<\/p>\n<p>FULL RESULTS<br \/>\nSporting Lagos 0-0 Rangers<br \/>\nGombe Utd 0-2 Sunshine Stars<br \/>\nTornadoes 1-1 Kwara Utd<br \/>\nBayelsa Utd 3-2 Plateau Utd<br \/>\nEnyimba 4-1 Rivers Utd<\/p>\n<p>NPFL: Rangers stay top, Gombe United relegated<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rangers maintained top spot in the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, following a 0-0 draw against Sporting Lagos. The Flying&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[881,15,683,684,160],"tags":[884,180,304,362,16524,201,947,762,305],"class_list":["post-35284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gombe-united","category-news","category-npfl","category-rangers","category-sport","tag-gombe","tag-news","tag-npfl","tag-rangers","tag-relegated","tag-sport","tag-stay","tag-top","tag-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}