Match day 20 of the StarTimes Uganda Premier League highlighted significant title race shift with SC Villa losing 1-0 to Police leaving them far behind.
BUL, NEC and URA continue resurgence, recurring questions over match officials’ decisions and Entebbe UPPC’s lack goals.
Three horse race?
Vipers grinded out another result beating UPDF 2-1 at Bombo. And just like it happened in Kamwenge over the weekend, they had to dig deep to snatch a winner after the army side equalised late on.
With Villa falling to Police and wins for KCCA and Kitara against Express (3-0) and Mbarara City (1-0) respectively, it leaves only three sides firmly in the race.
Vipers lead with 47 points, four and five ahead of Kitara and KCCA respectively.
Villa title ambitions fade
Following three points at Police, Villa are now literally nine points behind leaders Vipers with ten match days left to seal the season.
Twists and turns are expected in the title race but surely, it will take a miracle for the Jogoos to win this year’s title.
Another day, another poor decision from the match officials
For the second consecutive match day, SC Villa were victims of a poor decision from the assistant referee after their legit goal against Police was wrongly ruled out for offside.
Is it a planned agenda against Zeljko’s side or just coincidence?
URA, NEC and BUL momentum
The trio were expected to be challengers for the title but abysmal starts for each respectively saw them fall off very early in the season.
They have however found their groove with NEC and BUL maintaining winning runs and closing in on top four while URA also picked their second win under Hussein Mbalangu and are now out of the relegation talk.
Another clean sheet for Entebbe UPPC but concern over lack of goals continues
Entebbe UPPC have proved a hard nut to crack at the back after yet keeping yet another clean sheet against NEC.
That is the 12th clean sheet in the campaign and lead the charts in this column but it is at the front that they are suffering.
Since the start of the second round, the Printers have scored just once, in a 1-0 win over Mbarara City failing to hit the back of the net in four matches.
If Ambrose Kigozi doesn’t score, they don’t and that must be worrying for Abdallah Mubiru and staff.