Soccer Preview: Points Could Be Hard to Come by When St. Xavier Meets Trinity

The St. Xavier Tigers will stay at home for another game and welcome the Trinity Shamrocks at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday. The two teams have allowed few goals on average (St. Xavier 0.3, Trinity 0.3) so any goals scored will be well earned.

St. Xavier is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Kentucky's top teams: DuPont Manual, who was ranked 13th at the time (St. Xavier was ranked first). The Tigers' defense stepped up to hand the Crimsons a 4-0 shutout on Saturday. Considering St. Xavier have won 14 matchups by more than two goals this season, another big win was nothing new.

Meanwhile, Trinity entered their tilt with Christian Academy-Louisville on Saturday with six consecutive wins but they'll face St. Xavier with seven. They came within a single goal of losing the streak, but they secured a 1-0 W against the Centurions. Give Trinity's defense some credit: that's the team's fifth straight shutout.

St. Xavier has now won 16 of their last 17 games at home. That's helped them to a 21-0-1 record this season. As for Trinity, they have now won nine of their last 11 games on the road. That somehow still isn't as good as their 20-1-2 record this season.