Soccer Preview: Naperville Central vs. West Aurora
The Naperville Central Redhawks have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the West Aurora Blackhawks at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both come into the contest bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Naperville Central is headed in fresh off scoring the most goals they have all season. They put the hurt on Minooka with a sharp 6-1 win on Thursday. The Redhawks might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won three games by three goals or more this season.
Meanwhile, West Aurora won against Oswego East on Thursday with two goals and they decided to stick to that goal total again on Saturday. West Aurora had just enough and edged Geneva out 2-1. Given the Blackhawks' advantage in MaxPreps' Illinois soccer rankings (they are ranked 14th, while the Vikings are ranked 144th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Naperville Central has been performing well recently as they've won three of their last four matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 4-1-3 record this season. As for West Aurora, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 7-1.
Naperville Central was able to grind out a solid win over West Aurora in their previous matchup back in October of 2022, winning 2-0. Will Naperville Central repeat their success, or does West Aurora have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
