Obua curses "lapse of concentration" in URA's Uganda Cup defeat to KCCA

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Obua curses "lapse of concentration" in URA's Uganda Cup defeat to KCCA

Allan Damba • 14:13 - 05.03.2024

"Again, a lapse of concentration and it cost me a big game. In such a situation, your teammates' hard work is taken away just because of a lapse in concentration."

Tactician David Obua felt his URA FC team was hard done by a lack of focus, as they lost 1-0 to KCCA FC in the Round of 16 of the Stanbic Uganda Cup on Monday.

The Tax Collectors had exerted dominance in the larger spells of the game, creating multiple chances but failing to tuck them away at home turf - the Mehta Stadium, Lugazi.

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In the end, with five minutes to play, substitute Mustafa Kizza netted from a free-kick that was aided by weak handling from goalkeeper James Alitho to have KCCA into the quarterfinals at the expense of URA.

"We always need to have maximum focus with the things we do," Obua said in his post-match briefing.

"Some of these things happen training, you try to explain to these people that every minute you have to have maximum focus," he added.

"Again, a lapse of concentration and it cost me a big game. In such a situation, your teammates' hard work is taken away just because of a lapse in concentration."

However, even in defeat, Obua was left pleased with the overall show of the team and vowed to bounce back.

"We dominated the game throughout, we passed the ball and created chances," he assessed.

"It's a painful loss, unfortunately, because we played so well throughout the game. But, it's okay, we'll go back and train harder: people think the adversity is going to take us down, but we'll return much stronger," Obua summed.

While URA exited the Uganda Cup, KCCA joined Police FC, Pajule Lions, BUL FC and Kitara FC in the quarterfinals.

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