Bombastic Bayelsa Queens Blow ASKO Into The Dust of 3 Goals to Nil: Retrospective Review

Bayelsa Queens whitewashed ASKO of Togo in a merciless 3-0 romp in their second Group B game at the 2025 WAFU B Women’s Champions League in Yammosoukro on Wednesday night.

Oumou Bani’s own goal kicked off the festivities after good work from the flanks from Bayelsa Queens, a fabulous facet of their game all night which could have helped produce more goals on another night, but not this night.

Alaba Olabiyi authoritatively doubled the lead in the 53rd minute with a fiendish finish of a header that left the opposition goalkeeper gasping for air, this after fancy footwork from the woman-mountain Janet Akekoromowei down the flanks had sent the opposition fullback off the beaten tracks. Her follow on cross for this goal was also a thing of beauty and precision.

Shakirat Moshood will take no prisoners in the 80th minute by riffling home from an almost acute angle just borderline 18 yard box to add spice to what was already a deliciously served Jollof rice as the Prosperity Girls ran riot with 3 unreplied goals.

The quality of the football was not great to be brutally honest but was still engaging and entertaining to watch nonetheless.

Bayelsa Queens were menacing in the set piece routines, rattling opposition feathers with wicked corner kicks, throw ins and free kicks.

Their crossing deliveries were good and they transitioned the ball well and with conviction from defence to attack.

Their formation resembled something like 4-2-3-1 at times with rotation up front as Janet, the CF, will often drift to the flanks where she delivered her deft assist. Her headed flick-ons had potential but were often poorly executed.

The team exhibited lax ball control at times and their passes were not often well prepared or had too much ketchup applied. They had fabulously tasty intentions which were let down by poor execution.

I was very satisfied with the performance of goalkeeper Monle Omini. If you had seen her, as I did, in the 2022 U-20 women's world cup, she was a pitiful bag of nerves, always mere micro seconds away from making an embarrassing mistake.

Here, she was icy cool with confidence brimming from glove to glove. A bit reckless at times but she at least had the temerity to take risks with strikers bearing down at her like hungry pack of wolves; risks which weren't punishing, risks which only boosted her confidence on this night. Whether distributing the ball or claiming it, she was commanding through and through.

What else? Their counter attacking was good and it was funny hearing instructions in Yoruba language from the touchline; I couldn't stop laughing. I thought Ijaw was the pre-eminent local dialect in Bayelsa (Lol).

All in all, it wasn't a waste of my time watching this match. The ladies were professional and business-like. They had a discernible game-plan which they stuck to, which produced the win, which delighted their fans.