Soccer Preview: Pleasant Plains vs. Williamsville
Pleasant Plains is 2-8 against Williamsville since September of 2018 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Thursday. The Pleasant Plains Cardinals will play host again on Thursday to welcome the Williamsville Bullets, where kickoff is scheduled at 4:00 p.m. Pleasant Plains is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 3.9 goals per game this season.
Pleasant Plains will roll into the game after a wild two-game stretch: they only put up one goal on Saturday, then bounced right back against Riverton/Tri-City on Monday. Pleasant Plains put the hurt on Riverton/Tri-City with a sharp 8-1 win. The Cardinals might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won four contests by three goals or more this season.
Their offense was hitting Riverton/Tri-City from everywhere, as six different players booted in a goal.
Joel Gove led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by himself.
Meanwhile, Williamsville had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 5.5 goals), and they went ahead and made it three on Tuesday. They sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 3-2 victory over the Chargers. Three seems to be a good number for the Bullets as the team scooped up a win with the same number of goals in their previous game.
Pleasant Plains' victory was their fifth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 6-2. As for Williamsville, they have been performing well recently as they've won five of their last six matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 9-2 record this season.
Pleasant Plains suffered a grim 4-0 defeat to Williamsville in their previous meeting two weeks ago. Will Pleasant Plains have more luck at home instead of on the road? Check back here after the action for a full breakdown and analysis of the contest.
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