KAMPALA. Bright Stars are not league title contenders despite sitting fourth on the 16-team log with 27 points. The team’s coach Fred Kajoba, however, has a lot to smile about.
The team have conceded only seven goals in 17 outings, which makes them the meanest defence in the league. And although they have scored just 11, Kajoba is impressed with the backline.
“A clean sheet for me is better than a win in which we have conceded a goal,” Kajoba told Daily Monitor on Sunday after his side defeated Lweza 1-0 at Wankulukuku courtesy of a Jimmy Lule goal. “We don’t score so many goals because we don’t have a lethal striker to bury the chances we create but that is a general problem – Ugandan teams don’t score many goals.
“But when you look at the league, the teams that have scored the most goals don’t have that defensive discipline which we do have,” added the national team goalkeeping coach.
Only KCCA (25), URA (25), Express (23) and Vipers (21) have managed to reach the 20 goal mark.
But they have also let in 12, 20, 16, and 15 respectively, something which Kajoba detests. “It doesn’t make sense if you score goals and the same time are very weak at the back. “Because when you play a side that won’t allow you to score goals you need to be able to deny them too. But if you are generous at the back and you play against an organised side, you will get punished,” Kajoba noted.
The win against Lweza was Bright Stars’ fourth straight clean sheet in a game in which they missed skipper Bernard Muwanga and keeper Mathias Kigonya through injury.
Bright Stars clean sheets
Bright Stars 1-0 SC Villa
The Saints 0-1 Bright Stars
Bright Stars 1-0 JMC Hippos
Bright Stars 0-0 Lweza
Bright Stars 1-0 SCVU
Maroons 0-0 Bright Stars
BUL FC 0-1 Bright Stars
Lweza 0-1 Bright Stars
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