UPDF 2-0 BUL
UPDF ended BUL’s six-match winning run with a summary 2-0 victory over the StarTimes Uganda Premier League (SUPL) table leaders at Bombo Barracks Ground on Thursday.
Bernard Muwanga’s seventh minute penalty and Sam Kintu’s second half goal were enough to register the soldiers’ only second win in seven attempts in a match where BUL coach Abbey Kikomeko was sent off for dissent.
A minute’s silence was observed before the match for the departed second vice president of Fufa, Darius Mugoye, who sadly passed on a day earlier.
The win for UPDF lifts them three places up to ninth on eight points, while BUL remain on top on 18 points in seven matches.
BUL came into this one on the back of six straight wins in which they scored 10 times against two goals conceded.
But the hosts, UPDF, who had scored only three goals and shipped in six, had a different challenge for them.
The army men engaged gear early on, a long throw-in forcing BUL player Walter Ochora into handling in the forbidden area.
Muwanga stepped forward and converted the resultant penalty for a 1-0 seventh minute lead as the teams endured an afternoon downpour.
UPDF took the lead into half time and doubled it nine minutes after the break when Kintu sweetly connected with the ball on the volley on the edge of the penalty area for 2-0 on 54 minutes.
It got from bad to worse for BUL nine minutes later when their coach Kikomeko was shown a red card for dissent, and a yellow brandished to his assistant Simeon Masaba. The hosts bravely held out to become the first team to beat BUL.