By Daily Sports on September 24, 2016

Plateau United head coach, Zachary Baraje, has told supersport.com that he feels relieved that his team will remain in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) for another season though they need a point to survive.

Baraje explained that overcoming their wretched start to the season in which they managed just three wins in their opening 11 matches was down to hard work and team spirit.

By mid-May, Baraje was shown the exit door by Plateau United after the club had won just four games in 17, but the experienced trainer said all that happenings are now behind him and he feels happy that he returned to help the Jos side out of the woods.

"It has been a season with ups and downs. In life there is no permanent situation, but what we have achieved as a team this season with Plateau United is good for us. Remaining in the league after the season was always our first objective though the season is not over yet. We also left the door for possibly finishing in a better position than we are right now which is among the top-three or even four.

"Right now I don't think I want to dwell on what happened in the past when I had to leave or return, but the good side of it is that I returned and we worked as a team and ensured that the club will now remain in the league for next season as it looks," Baraje said to supersport.com.

However, the former Enyimba trainer believes that Plateau United's season was turned around when they began when they picked their first away point of the season at 3SC in a thrilling 2-2. The club went on to draw their next five matches including a 2-2 outcome at Ikorodu United and a goalless result at Heartland.

He added that their finest moment of the season was when they won four matches on the spin against Enyimba, MFM FC, FC Ifeanyiubah and Nasarawa United. Baraje's men did not concede in those four matches.

"Despite a difficult season at the start we also had some fine periods like when we took a point at 3SC and also when we won four matches consecutively. Those moments somehow helped us as we will surely stay for another season in a very difficult league," he said.

Baraje and his men will head to the northeast town of Maiduguri, where they will face El-Kanemi Warriors this Sunday before returning to Jos to play hosts to Heartland in their final game of the season. (Supersport.com)

•Photo shows Zachary Baraje

Source Daily Sports

Posted September 24, 2016

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