{"id":3252,"date":"2025-10-15T17:38:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uppcfc.go.ug\/?p=3252"},"modified":"2025-10-28T18:48:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:48:39","slug":"match-report-sc-villa-1-1-uppc-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uppcfc.go.ug\/index.php\/2025\/10\/15\/match-report-sc-villa-1-1-uppc-fc\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Report: SC Villa 1\u20131 UPPC FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Uganda Premier League \u2013 Match Day 3, Wednesday 15th October 2025<\/em><em>.<\/em><br><em>FUFA Stadium Kadiba \u2013 Namirembe, Kampala<\/em><em>.<\/em><em><\/em><\/p><p>We continued our promising start to the Uganda Premier League season with a hard-fought 1\u20131 draw away to SC Villa at the FUFA Stadium,&nbsp;Kadiba in Namirembe, Kampala.<\/p><p>The game began at a lively pace, with both teams pressing for early control. We settled quickly and showed confidence on the ball, and in the 29th minute our persistence paid off. <strong>Tumwine Fazil \u201cCholpla\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;chased a seemingly lost cause, putting the Villa backline under heavy pressure and forcing a mix-up between their defender and goalkeeper \u2014 the resulting error left&nbsp;Fazil free to walk the&nbsp;ball into the net to give us a deserved lead.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"965\" height=\"760\" src=\"https:\/\/uppcfc.go.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Picture2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uppcfc.go.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Picture2.jpg 965w, https:\/\/uppcfc.go.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Picture2-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uppcfc.go.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Picture2-768x605.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uppcfc.go.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Picture2-600x473.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 965px) 100vw, 965px\" \/><\/figure><p>We went into the break 1\u20130 up, having defended compactly and restricted Villa to a few clear openings.<\/p><p>After halftime, the hosts pushed harder, committing more men forward in search of an equalizer. We stood firm for long spells, but in the 83rd minute,&nbsp;Villa leveled through a header from a corner kick.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"527\" height=\"756\" src=\"https:\/\/uppcfc.go.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Picture3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3256\" style=\"width:838px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uppcfc.go.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Picture3.jpg 527w, https:\/\/uppcfc.go.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Picture3-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/figure><p>As pressure mounted in the final moments, <strong>Omedwa<\/strong>\u00a0produced a stunning reflex save at the death to deny Villa a late winner, ensuring we took a well-earned point back to Entebbe.<\/p><p><strong>Final Score:<\/strong>&nbsp;SC Villa 1\u20131 UPPC FC<br><strong>Goal:<\/strong>&nbsp;Goal (by Tumwine Fazil \u201cCholpla\u201d, 29\u2019)<br><strong>Next Match:<\/strong>&nbsp;Entebbe UPPC FC vs NEC FC\u2013 Fisheries Ground, Bugonga, Entebbe<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda Premier League \u2013 Match Day 3, Wednesday 15th October 2025.FUFA Stadium Kadiba \u2013 Namirembe, Kampala. We continued our promising start to the Uganda Premier League season with a hard-fought 1\u20131 draw away to SC Villa at the FUFA Stadium,&nbsp;Kadiba in Namirembe, Kampala. The game began at a lively pace, with both teams pressing for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uppcfc.go.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uppcfc.go.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uppcfc.go.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uppcfc.go.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uppcfc.go.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/uppcfc.go.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3259,"href":"https:\/\/uppcfc.go.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions\/3259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uppcfc.go.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uppcfc.go.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uppcfc.go.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uppcfc.go.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}