Stephen Jude of Kwara United Football Club of Ilorin scored the first hat-trick of the 2020/2021 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) season on Match Day 17 on Sunday.
Jude’s goals helped his team to batter struggling Adamawa United FC of Yola 5-0 in the match played at the Kwara Stadium Complex in Ilorin.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the midfielder took his tally for the season to seven goals with Sunday’s performance, and he also assisted Michael Ohanu’s two goals.
Kwara United’s coach Abdullahi Biffo made two changes to the side which lost 2-0 to Kano Pillars on Wednesday in Kaduna.
The duo of Issa Gata and Lucas Alves replaced Kamal Sikiru and Samuel Chisom in the starting line-up in the win over Adamawa United on Sunday.
Ohanu put Kwara United ahead in the sixth minute when he beat the offside trap and sent the ball past Adamawa United’s goalkeeper Friday Achimugu.
Jude failed to double the lead for Kwara United in the 17th minute when he missed an opportunity in the goal area, after Ohanu’s backheel found him unmarked.
Alves met Taiwo Salaudeen’s perfect cross but failed to direct his header directly into the Adamawa United net in the 29th minute to miss another huge chance for the homers. NAN.