URA face the daunting task of overturning a 2-1 deficit against Premier Soccer League (PSL) side Orlando Pirates without their top marksman Robert Ssentongo.
The two meet at Mandela National Stadium, Namboole in the second leg of the Caf Confederations Cup on Saturday with URA needing a 1-0 victory to progress to the second round.
URA’s lead scorer on the continent with three of their five goals, Ssentongo, missed the first leg in South Africa. He also leads the local league’s scoring charts with 10.
Ssentongo is again out of Saturday’s continental encounter after the Caf disciplinary sitting ruled that his red card offence in the away preliminary tie against Elgeco Plus in Madagascar amounted to violent conduct.
URA coach Alex Isabirye insists he did not see the incident which got the striker sent off in the said preliminary match.
“To be honest I don’t know because the ball was in our half and Ssentongo was in their half. The ref said it was an elbow although Ssentongo denies.”
The 2015 Caf regulations state in part that “a player sent off the field by the referee is to be automatically suspended from playing the subsequent match of the clubs competitions without prejudice to other sanctions, which the organising Committee might impose on him subsequently.”
This means that the mandatory one game suspension was to be served without prejudice but the second one was decided after the ‘organising committee subsequently imposed on him other sanctions’ after considering the nature of the crime.
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