Soccer Game Preview: Southside Plays at Home

By Team Reports May 1, 2024, 4:39am

Soccer Preview: Southside vs. Lejeune

Southside is 1-9 against Lejeune since March of 2017 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Wednesday. The Southside Seahawks will stay at home for another game and welcome the Lejeune Devil Pups at 6:00 p.m. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.

If Southside beats Lejeune with four goals on Wednesday, it's going to be the squad's new lucky number: they've won their past two games with that exact score. Southside never let Greene Central onto the board and left with a 4-0 win on Monday. It was an even better day for Pricila Selvin Gomez as she scored three goals for her team.

Meanwhile, Lejeune has not lost a match yet, a trend which continued in their latest game on Monday. They blew past Jones 9-0. Given Lejeune's advantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 175th, while Jones is ranked 473rd), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.

Southside has been performing well recently as they've won three of their last four matches, which provided a nice bump to their 8-6-3 record this season. As for Lejeune, they pushed their record up to 12-0-1 with that victory, which was their sixth straight at home.

Southside suffered a grim 3-0 defeat to Lejeune in their previous meeting back in April. Will Southside have more luck at home instead of on the road? Come back here after the game to get an analysis of the match and other soccer content.

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