Soccer Game Preview: Greater Latrobe on Home-Turf

By Team Reports Sep 7, 2024, 2:12am

Soccer Preview: Greater Latrobe vs. Penn-Trafford

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Greater Latrobe has been away from home for two games now, but on Tuesday they'll finally make their return. They will welcome the Penn-Trafford Warriors at 7:30 p.m. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.

Greater Latrobe's defense heads into the contest hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Thursday. Everything went their way against Belle Vernon as Greater Latrobe made off with a 5-0 victory. The win was all the more spectacular given the Wildcats' disadvantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania soccer rankings (they are ranked 96th, while the Leopards are ranked 16th).

Meanwhile, Penn-Trafford's matchup on Thursday was close up to the half, which is when they kicked things up a notch. They blew past West Mifflin 3-0. The Warriors' winning goal came courtesy of Chad Pusateri.

Greater Latrobe's victory bumped their record up to 3-1. As for Penn-Trafford, they now have a winning record of 2-1-1.

Greater Latrobe skirted past Penn-Trafford 3-2 when the teams last played back in September of 2023. Will Greater Latrobe repeat their success, or does Penn-Trafford have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.

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