Vipers, KCCA biggest winners ahead of busy week

Kampala. A full fixture list is upon us on Match Day four tomorrow and Wednesday with all 16 clubs in action but, how did get here?
Quite a number of StarTimes Uganda Premier League (SUPL) teams carry huge momentum from the previous match day, while lots more enter this week looking for a sign; for how to get their act together. Fast!
Of course there were noteworthy wins for; the first time this season – Express - as they saw off sorry Police 3-1 on Tuesday, Bul’s emphatic 3-0 dismissal of Paidha Black Angels, and Kirinya-Jinja’s 2-1 away victory over Tooro United.

URA’s 1-0 victory over Ndejje University, in which the taxmen struggled to add to Peter Lwasa’s strike despite having numerous chances, was a crucial one as they temporarily went joint top with KCCA on Tuesday.
They are now fourth and within two points of new leaders Vipers. But the big winners of round three of matches, really, are champions Vipers and tough rivals KCCA.
Of course Vipers coach Javier Martinez’s men went to sleep after Daniel Sserunkuma’s 15th minute goal in the 1-0 victory over Nyamityobora registered the Venoms third successive win. Victory sent them top of the log on nine points.

After a fairly dominant first half at St Mary’s Stadium, the champions were made to sweat to see out the result, and their second half performance will have concerned Martinez ahead of Wednesday’s short trip to Namboole to face a desperate SC Villa. But hey, you cannot fault the only perfect team in the league after three matches, and their laboured victory that saw them surge to the top on a day Bright Stars goalless draw with Villa allowed them free passage makes them one of the big winners of the round.

The biggest winners of the round, happened miles away in Arua, where 12-time champions KCCA recorded their first ever win at Green Light Stadium, subjecting Onduparaka to their worst ever home defeat in the 2-0 victory on Friday. Only SC Villa had ever beaten them there.

Allan Okello, getting his second goal of the campaign, and skipper Timothy Awany scored KCCA’s goals for manager Mike Mutebi’s men to go third on seven points, only behind Bright Stars on goal difference. The two face off tomorrow at Lugogo.
Onduparaka have previously lost at home only once, Villa being the only team to boast of breaching the West Nilers last lines of defence until Okello resolved to start the journey to end that inside the first six minutes.
This was the teenager’s fifth goal against Onduparaka, his first being a hattrick on his league debut just over two years ago, and another in the Super Cup recently.

Of goal machines, and the losers
Okello’s goal ensured he was enlisted on the scoring charts by the UPL, but there is no taking away the limelight from Kirinya’s Joel Madondo. The striker enters this week as the boss, his brace against Tooro last Tuesday taking him to four goals, one ahead of Bright Stars Nelson Senkatuka.

Maroons, Nyamityobora and Police in that order from the bottom continued their woeful start by each losing their third straight match.
Villa’s draw with Bright Stars only confirmed them as the league’s fourth worst starters, located just above relegation on two points.

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