{"id":1527,"date":"2025-10-20T11:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T10:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edoqueensfc.com\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2025-10-22T11:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:57:15","slug":"edo-queens-spank-heartland-queens-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edoqueensfc.com\/?p=1527","title":{"rendered":"Edo Queens spank Heartland Queens 2-0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2026set to battle FC Robo on Thursday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edo Queens Football Club of Benin delivered a dominant performance against Heartland Queens of Owerri by defeating them 2-0 at the ongoing Governor Diri Douye, female football pre-season tournament holding in Yenagoa Bayelsa State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zainab Olapade, was the star of the show opening the scoring in the 3rd minute with a clinical finish from a header.<br>Chioma Moses, sealed the 2-0 victory in 18th minute of the first half converting a losed ball into the opponent&#8217;s goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edo Queen&#8217;s performance was marked by sharp attacking play, disciplined defence, and controlled possession throughout the 90 minutes of play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the emphatic victory in today&#8217;s match, Edo Queens and Abia Angels now have the same number of points from two matches each.<br>Edo Queens will play their third game on Thursday against FC Robo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heartland Queens managed to come back into the game in second half but Edo Queens defence was also equal to the task.<br>The technical crew made strategic substitutions trying almost all the players taking to the tournament hence the competition is meant to access, fine- tune and evaluate their players to ascertain their level of preparedness for the forthcoming NWFL premiership season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of regulation time, the Benin City based ladies smiled to their hotels with three points topping Group B with four points along side Abia Angels but with goal difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#EdoQueensmedia#<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026set to battle FC Robo on Thursday Edo Queens Football Club of Benin delivered a dominant performance against Heartland Queens of Owerri by defeating them 2-0 at the ongoing Governor Diri Douye, female football pre-season tournament holding in Yenagoa Bayelsa State. Zainab Olapade, was the star of the show opening the scoring in the 3rd&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club_news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edoqueensfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edoqueensfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edoqueensfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edoqueensfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edoqueensfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edoqueensfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"https:\/\/edoqueensfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edoqueensfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edoqueensfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edoqueensfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edoqueensfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}