The Oriental derby one of the biggest and the oldest derby in Nigeria professional football league .
Heartland (Iwuanyanwu national ) 5 times NPFL champions will host Enyimba football club 8 times league champions in an all important Oriental derby at the new Dan Anyiam stadium in the match day 4 of the NPFL season on 13th January 2021
Heartland football club have enjoyed a successful 5 years without loosing to Enyimba in a league match since after loosing to Enyimba in 2015 , Haven defeated the people’s Elephant in aba last season on a 2-0 margin all thanks to a moment of brilliance from former enyimba striker Emeka Obioma
Enyimba will be going to this tie as favorite after enjoying a good start to the new season having record 6 points from 2 games ,while coach Fidelis Ilechukwu led team is yet to get a point in the new season after loosing 3 times Kastina United , Nasarawa United at home and Plateau United away
The two teams have a total 13 domestic league trophy
Heartland with 5
Enyimba with 8
Players to watch
Shedrack oghali
Former warri wolves and Go round striker has one goal for Heartland this season , but the big striker is always a threat to any big team , having scored more than 20 Npfl goals
Vincent Ezenwa. The 32 year old goalkeeper , former Enyimba and former Nigeria youth team goalkeeper with 21 senior caps for the national team is expected to start in goal against his former team
Enyimba
Sadiq Abubakar. Former Heartland winger is expected to start against his former team having scored 4 times last season
Victor Mbaoma . After making his league debut for Enyimba last season , he have gone on to score more than 10 times for the ABA landlords
The match is expected to bring memories of the popular default Oriental musical team
