KCCA FC registered a narrow 1-0 win over URA FC to kick off the 2024-25 Uganda Premier League season on Friday.
Saidi Mayanja scored the only goal of the game after half an hour,firing in from outside the box following a lay off from Kasasiro Boys prodigal son Derrick Nsibambi.
Nsibambi wound up being named man of the match after an all action display that also saw him put the ball in the back of the net,only for the offside flag to go up.
Last season’s Uganda Cup finalists NEC FC condemned Vipers SC to a humbling 3-1 defeat in Lugogo on Sunday.
Veteran midfielder Muzamiru Mutyaba marked his debut for NEC with a tenth minute strike from the edge of the box.Mutyaba collected Enock Ssebagala’s pass,took a touch that bounced the ball off the ground and then unleashed a blistering volleyed shot past Denis Kiggundu in the Vipers’ goal.
Livingstone Mulondo equalised for Vipers with a towering header from a 25th minute corner and the halftime whistle came with the scores level.
Former Vipers striker Cromwell Rwothomio then came off the bench to haunt the Venoms.First,by tapping in Rashid Okocha’s cross towards the far post to restore NEC’s advantage.
Just two minutes later,he turned turned provider for another former Vipers striker to put the final nail in the coffin,as Paul Mucureezi grabbed a debut goal.
It was route one football at its finest,as NEC keeper Hannington Ssebwalunyo’s long ball was flicked on by Rwothomio to Mucureezi darting in behind his former employers’ defence.
The striker rounded Kiggundu to put the ball into an empty net and wrap up the win for his new team after leaving Kitara FC.
Speaking of Kitara,they comfortably dispatched newly promoted Lugazi FC 3-0 to tentatively go top of the league.
Diminutive midfielder Frank Zaga Tumwesigye broke the deadlock halfway through the first half,firing a ferocious left footed shot into the roof of the net.
Lugazi then went down to ten men after Rogers Atube was sent off for second bookable offence in the 39th minute.
Kitara capitalised on their one man advantage almost instantly as newly minted Uganda international forward Jude Ssemugabi netted from Denis Omedi’s cutback.Ssemugabi collected the ball in his own half after Lugazi lost possession and released Omedi down the right.Omedi rode one challenge and sent the ball into the area for his strike partner to finish from point blank range.
Ssemugabi,who also marked his national team debut with a memorable goal,ended the contest with another sensational strike just past the hour mark.He chested down Solomon Okwalinga’s long pass into the box before hitting an unstoppable left footed volley to put the game to bed.
