Soccer Preview: Rolling Meadows vs. Palatine
The Rolling Meadows Mustangs will challenge the Palatine Pirates at 6:45 p.m. on Tuesday. Rolling Meadows is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 3 goals per game this season.
Palatine is hoping to do what Jacobs couldn't on Saturday: put an end to Rolling Meadows' winning streak, which now stands at three games. Rolling Meadows' defense stepped up to hand Jacobs a 2-0 shutout. Given the Mustangs' advantage in MaxPreps' Illinois soccer rankings (they are ranked 40th, while the Golden Eagles are ranked 306th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Ever Flores and
Eltayeb Mahmoud scored both of Rolling Meadows' goals, bringing their combined season tally to three goals.
Meanwhile, there was early excitement for Palatine after they claimed the first goal on Saturday, however, they wouldn't score again. They fell just short of Waukegan by a score of 2-1. Having soared to a lofty four goals in the game before, the Pirates couldn't push the score so high this time.
Rolling Meadows has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven matches, which provided a nice bump to their 8-2 record this season. As for Palatine, their loss dropped their record down to 5-2-1.
Rolling Meadows came up short against Palatine in their previous meeting back in September of 2023, falling 2-0. Can Rolling Meadows avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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