STARTIMES UGANDA PREMIER LEAGUE
The Date: February 2, 2020
The Contest: Vipers SC vs. SC Villa
The Time: 3pm (Live on Sanyuka TV)
The Venue: St Mary’s Stadium, Kitende
Having waited for months to host SC Villa, Vipers SC will get a crack at them on Wednesday in the StarTimes Uganda Premier League.
The game has been rescheduled thrice. The budding rivalry will now come to life with Vipers seeking to win in order to assume league leadership from KCCA.
The Venoms lie second on 30 points, one behind KCCA FC with one game to play to hit the halfway mark in the 30-game league season.
Matches between the two rivals are always tense basing on all previous engagements therefore St Mary’s stadium won’t be an ideal place for the faint hearted as its bound to be explosive again.
Overall, it’s going to be the 32nd meeting between the two clubs in the League with Vipers commanding a lions share statistically having registered 13 Wins, 11 draws and 7 Losses, the Venoms have scored 40 goals conceding 32 out of the previous 31 meetings.
Head-To-Head:
Meetings: 31
Vipers wins: 13
Draws: 11
Losses: 7
Goals for: 40
Goals against: 32
Points: 50
The last corresponding league fixture at St Mary’s Stadium Kitende ended in a 3-0 win for the Venoms thanks to goals from Dan Sserunkuma, Paul Willa and Yunus Sentamu.
SC Villa will be looking for a third victory at St Mary’s stadium having won the previous two 3-1 and 1-0 respectively.
Past 6 meetings at Vipers home:
2015/16 Vipers 2-2 SC Villa
2016/17 Vipers 1-2 SC Villa
2017/18 Vipers 1-0 SC Villa
2018/19 Vipers 1-3 SC Villa
2019/20 Vipers 0-1 SC Villa
2020/21 Vipers 3-0 SC Villa
Vipers come into this fixture occupying second position on the league log with 30 points from 14 games while SC Villa are lying in 10th place having garnered 16 points from the same number of matches hence are 14 points behind the Venoms.
In their last fixtures before the break, Vipers shared spoils (1-1) with Jinja based side, BUL FC while SC Villa drew 0-0 at Fufa Technical Centre against UPDF FC.
Team News:
Bobosi Byaruhanga and Ibrahim Orit will miss tomorrow’s game as they are still nursing injuries sustained from National duty.
Apart from the longer term injuries, they are all in. No Lawrence Tezikya, No Umaru Kyebatala – the rest are available. A big squad of 18 players are available to face SC Villa.
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Vipers great team