The players of the Nigerian Remo Stars team sparked controversy on social media after they missed a penalty kick in a very strange way in the final of a local football tournament in Ogun state on Thursday.

Nigerian activists circulated videos on the platforms showing Remo Stars players deliberately taking 3 penalty kicks away from the goal in their match against Ijebo United and wasting them in a strange way, which puzzled the followers and raised many questions about why the players acted in this way.

If this isn't Match Fixing, then I don't know what it is.

Why is Nigerian football like this?

Why don't we ever want progress??

This is Ogun State FA Cup final between Remo Stars and Ijebu United 💔💔

pic.twitter.com/Mef2oU2gd1

— Ibukun Aluko (@IbkSports) July 14, 2022

Nigerian sports writer and journalist Ibokon Aluko posted on his personal account on Twitter a video of a number of penalty kicks that the players missed, commenting, "I don't know what this is. Why is Nigerian football like this? Why do we never want to progress? This is the final of the Nigerian FA Cup in Ogun state." .

And he wrote in another tweet, commenting on the video - which garnered more than 7 million views - "I discovered that the first three penalty kicks were deliberately taken by Remo players, and their goalkeeper also remained standing when the opponents' players took their kicks in protest against the unfair arbitration in the match."

Absolutely shamble from remo star fc at the ogun state fa cup final against ijebu United at otunba dipo stadium.

This happens as the fa says there is no extra time after playing goalless draw at full time.

Instead of forfeiting the match they decided to be playing the penalty out pic.twitter.com/okKV2GxzbT

— Swans future (@AbdulazeezAjum1) July 14, 2022

As for Ghanaian journalist Sadiq Adams, he published a video of one of the strangely missed penalty kicks, and said about it, "This is the most mysterious penalty kick in football, what was this player thinking?"

In turn, one of the tweeters described wasting penalty kicks in this way as "completely shameful", noting that this happened because there is no additional time for the match.

This is the most mysterious penalty in association football.

Ogun state FA cup between Remo and Ijebu United in Nigeria.

What was this player thinking??

😯 via @LFCinnigeria pic.twitter.com/ca5Kgx9T7B

— Saddick Adams (@SaddickAdams) July 14, 2022

So far, there has been no official comment from the two clubs or the Nigerian Football Federation on what happened in the match.

The match had gone to penalty kicks to determine the winner after a goalless draw between the two teams in the original time, and ended with the crowning of the Ijebo United team after winning the penalty shootout 3-0.