The 2019 Higher Institution Football League returns on Wednesday with four mouth watering fixtures in the Round of 16 across four centres in the country .
Perhaps the biggest of them all is the much anticipated heavy weight clash between Obafemi Awolowo University ile ife football team otherwise known as the OAU giants and the University of Ibadan also known as the UI Pioneers as the exciting Higher Institution Football League, HIFL, enters week 6.
The rivalry between the students and graduates of both schools is legendary, at every opportunity either in pubs,libraries, workplace social gathering, the debate is always about one topic.. my school is better than yours.
With pride and Ego at stake and ultimately a quarter final ticket on the table this match ticks all the boxes of a perfect matchup.
This is an opportunity for both schools to extend and proof their superiority over one another once again,as the case may be.
There will be emotions ,passions, ultimately there will undue flow of adrenaline as both sides will battle like a prince returning from an exile, and forcefully gunning for the throne of his ancestors.
The turf of the OAU sports complex will suffer because high level of dexterity of skills is expected to be displayed by both teams as they compete for honours.
OAU giants are coming into the game as favourite having made last year's super 4 in Lagos,they were drawn by in the group stage hence they will be playing their first game of the season.
Playing in front of their vociferous supporters will surely boost their confidence to go all the way and the giants from ife are set to trample on the Pioneers when they show up on Wednesday.
Though UI Pioneers struggled to make it out of their group but they did enough to outscored the dreaded LASU team,the propeller which took them to the round of 16,the game no doubt lift their spirits and will surely increase them in believe that they can face any opposition in their bid to be crowned the 2019 champion.
The fact that the Pioneers played in the group stage will surely give them some edge,mistakes would have been corrected and strategy will would have perfected.
The die is cast, we surely have more than a match on our hands its battle for the kings ,a battle royal indeed.
In the Other fixtures, the LASU Blazers will host the FUTA tigers at the ojo campus of the Eko for show team having qualified on top of their group at the Ibadan centre the lasuites are dangerously poised to blast past the tigers from Akure.
Uniben Royals have a great first round performance and they will be high in confidence to face the FUTMINNA Transformers, another side that are not push overs when it comes to inter collegiate football in the country.
While it's going to be Royal rumble in Ilorin the Uniilorin warriors will take on Federal University of Oye Ekiti football team ,better known as FUOYE dazzlers.
The winner of these match over two legs will proceed to the quarter finals competition as the return leg will take place in a fortnight.
The HIFL is organised by Pace sports and marketing and proudly sponsored by Stanbic IBTC,premier cool and Indomie
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