Kyebando stay strong at top after win

By Fred Kyambadde

Kampala Regional League leaders Kyebando FC kept their impressive unbeaten run this season alive after a slender 1-0 win over Kamwokya FC on Sunday.

The Kanyanya-based side have not lost any game since the start of this campaign and, as it stands, look clear favorites to join the FUFA Big League – the second tier of Ugandan football – next season.

Their home victory kept their credentials more than without question and they will have Muwonge Amos, formerly of Kamwokya FC, to thank for.

Kyebando now sit seven points clear at the top after the narrow win.

The hosts showed a lot of determination and saw more of the ball than their opponents in what came to be appreciated as a derby.

They inched close to taking the lead early when Amos Muwonge collected a pass, dribbled past his minders but steered his effort wide in the 10th minute.

He was in such an attacking mood that ten minutes later, he danced past two defenders and drove from ten yards out to put the home side in front.

Kyebando’s captain Nasser Nsubuga should have doubled the lead early in the second half, but he squandered the opportunity when he fired off target a drop-in cross from Arnold Ssebatya.

The latter also missed in the 55th minute when he should have curled home.

After wasting a host of opportunities, the hosts found themselves on the back foot and having to keep the rejuvenated visitors at bay.

The last 20 minutes had Kyebando’s goal keeper as the busier man on the pitch as an attacking force drew plenty of late stops from him.

 As the minutes wore, the visitors grew more and more in confidence but a nasty hit by one of their defenders on Muwonge saw them reduced to ten men.

And that did well to inflict damage in their growing belief, and eventually failing to recover.