Soccer Preview: Kelly vs. Homewood-Flossmoor
The Kelly Trojans will face off against the Homewood-Flossmoor Vikings at 9:45 a.m. on Saturday. Kelly will be hoping to continue their three-game streak of scoring more goals each matchup than the last.
Kelly is headed in fresh off scoring the most goals they have all season. They blew past Kennedy 4-1 on Wednesday. That's two games straight that the Trojans have won by exactly three goals.
Meanwhile, Homewood-Flossmoor was not able to break out of their rough patch on Friday as the team picked up their fourth straight defeat. They came up short against Oak Lawn, falling 6-2. While losing is never fun, the Vikings can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Illinois soccer rankings (they are ranked 402nd, while the Spartans are ranked 146th).
Kelly's win ended a three-game drought at home and bumped them up to 2-5. As for Homewood-Flossmoor, their loss dropped their record down to 1-5.
Kelly was able to grind out a solid victory over Homewood-Flossmoor in their previous meeting back in September of 2017, winning 3-1. The rematch might be a little tougher for Kelly since the squad won't have the home-pitch advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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