Tooro United v Express | UPL | Tuesday 29th January | Buhinga Stadium- Fort Portal | Kick off 4:30pm | #TOREXP

The Red Eagles kick off their second round of the Uganda Premier League with a tricky tie against Tooro United coached by former Red Eagle and coach Waswa Bbosa with a couple of former Red Eagles like Simon Serunkuma, Mahad Yaya Kakooza, Steven Luswata among others.

Here are the five things we should look out for in this mouth watering encounter

New Red Eagles in line to make their debuts

New signings bring new energy in the dressing room as well as healthy competition among the squad for places and optimism among the fans.
Brian Umony, Sadiq Ssekyembe, Goffin Oyirwoth and Ivan Ocholit are in line to make their debuts in Tooro and we shall be keeping our eyes on how they are getting on.

An opponent quite familiar

As stated earlier Tooro have many former Express players and their coach in a former player as well as coach. Waswa Bbosa coached Express for nearly six years after replacing Coach Sam Ssimbwa whom he was deputizing. He went on to lead us to our most recent best position in 2015/16 league season when we were 3rd only four points behind winners Vipers SC and level on points with second placed KCCA. Two former Express captains in Willy Kavuma and Steven Luswata are now playing for Tooro United a side which changed its name from Soana FC at the beginning of this season.
Other players include Godfrey Lwesibawa, Ayub Kizza, Issa Lumu, and Musa Mukasa who is also a former Express captain.
Express former goalkeeper and goalkeeping coach is also at Tooro United doing the same role he was doing at Express. We wait to see what that kind of familiarity will impact the game.

Tooro United unbeaten at Buhinga Stadium

The western Uganda side has turn the Kabarole based arena a fortress for all traveling side. The latest was Uganda Cup champion KCCA who they beat on penalties after a 1-1 draw in 90 minutes.
Express won the first round game 2-0 at Wankulukuku but now Tooro believes the table have turned and will put in a fight to see that the Red Eagles don’t break their record as the Red Eagles fight to go back with all three points. We are surely having a mount watering encounter upon us in Fort Portal.

Allan Kayiwa!

The diminutive attacking midfielder is the orchestrator of nearly all Tooro’s attacks he kept them in the Uganda Cup after scoring the equalizer to force penalties and later dump out holders of the domestic knockout competition. The midfielder has already scored 5 goals in the league and he is the top scorer for his side so we have to keep an eye on him.

First ever meeting of the two teams at Buhinga

It won’t be a fight for only three points but pride will also be at stake as well on Tuesday. Tooro United will be playing their first game against us at Buhinga Stadium after changing name and location at the beginning of the season. In an environment where they were warmly welcomed and even christened the Tooro Lions the Red Eagles will come to pick all three points to fulfill their ambitions of finishing in the top four. An entertaining encounter is anticipated from both teams.

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