Lagos using home adantage – Delta coach

Delta State female basketball team coach Nosa Uyigue says the host, Lagos State, is employing home advantage to subdue opponents in order to finish among the top teams at the 18th National Sports Festival.

Delta lost the semifinal match played at the Rowe Park, Yaba, by 51-45 to Lagos in women’s basketball on Wednesday but Usigbe alleged that the fixture was twisted while the rules were also bent in the hosts’ favour.

“They (Lagos State) used home advantage against us. They have done all these to suit themselves and now they have achieved it,” he began.

“We were supposed to play with the Federal Capital Territory in the semifinal stage, because they didn’t come top in the group, but it was later changed and we had to play another team that came first in group stage,” Uyigue alleged.

“All team that qualified for the semi final stage were screened but there was no screening for the Lagos team. My team played with 8 players against 12 players after some of my players were ruled out of the match by the screening officials. This is an exercise we were not told about at the beginning of the games.”