With the poor league run leaving KCCA off the pace in the title race, five points behind table leaders SC Villa, Sunday’s game will be of massive significance to the club and Byekwaso.
KCCA FC must do something they are not used to get to the semi-finals of this year’s Stanbic Uganda Cup.
Having been held to identical 1-1 draws by Maroons, Blacks Power and UPDF in the last three Startimes Uganda Premier League games, KCCA might have forgotten how it feels like to win.
And yet only victory at the Kavumba Recreational Centre can see Morley Byekwaso’s charges progress past Bright Stars.
With the poor league run leaving KCCA off the pace in the title race, five points behind table leaders SC Villa, Sunday’s game will be of massive significance to the club and Byekwaso.
The Kasasiro Boys got to this stage by eliminating Regional League side KJT before getting past FUFA Big League sides Kataka FC and Mbarara City.
Asaph Mwebaze’s Bright Stars will undoubtedly pose the most significant threat thus far and will be encouraged by the fact that the last time the two sides met at Kavumba, the hosts took all three points with a 1-0 win in the league.
However, Bright Stars’ recent form might give the Lugogo outfit reason to believe they can get a result.
Sunday’s hosts have lost their last four league games without finding the back of the net.
Identical 1-0 losses to UPDF, Villa and Gadaffi, plus a 2-0 defeat by URA, are different from the kind of results Mwebaze would have wanted before a Cup knock-out clash.
The team’s last victory was in the Uganda Cup, a 4-0 win over Kiyinda Boys that booked the Stars a place in the quarters.
KCCA FC are joint record winners of the Uganda Cup on 10 cups, tied with Express FC.
Victory would move the team closer to silverware, which has been elusive since Byekwaso’s appointment in 2021.
In players like Noordin Bunjo, Emmanuel Loki, Ibrahim Kasinde, and Nelson Senkatuka, Bright Stars have the arsenal to hurt the visitors.
The star-studded KCCA side, on the other side, has failed to live up to the billing since it was assembled.
Allan Okello, Moses Waiswa, Shaban Muhammad, Tshisungu Kankonde and Julius Poloto are some of the players in a KCCA side struggling to play well, let alone win games.
Stanbic Uganda Cup
Quarterfinals
Bright Stars vs. KCCA FC -3pm
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