Wikki Tourist's Coach revealed reasons why they lost to Flying Eagles in friendly

Following their 2-0 loss to the Flying Eagles of Nigeria, Coach Abdullahi Adamu of Wikki Tourists has blamed fatigue for their loss ok Thursday at the Goal Project Pitch in Abuja.

Goals from Adams Olamilekan in the first half and a late second half goal by Ogunsanya Segun sealed the deal for the U-20 national team of Nigeria.

The Ladan Bosso Lads have been in blistering form beating teams for free with wild margins their game against Wikki even though they won seemed their toughest after a cagey encounter.

However, Wikki Tourist, Abdullahi blamed their lack of rest and the absence of some players.

" My team played very well but fatigue was their major undoing because we arrived late to the match venue from Bauchi and you can imagine the stress.

Secondly, some of our key players are down with injuries and could not come with us." He disclosed.

"I'm impressed by their performance even though there are areas we noticed some lapses which we are going to work on before the league starts.

As you must have noticed,scoring goals has been a major problem not only to WIkki Tourists but even the U20 because if not for the free kick and what happened at the dying minutes of the game that gave them the second goal they could not have scored any goal", Coach Abdullahi emphasized.

The friendly match was used to prepare the boys from Bauchi ahead of a possible start of the league season this year.

Uche Dozie