Soccer Preview: Osceola vs. Tohopekaliga
Osceola is 0-8 against Tohopekaliga since January of 2019 but things could change on Tuesday. The Osceola Kowboys will venture away from home to take on the Tohopekaliga Tigers at 6:00 p.m. Osceola is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 4 goals per game this season.
Osceola will bounce into Tuesday's matchup after beating Poinciana, who they had gone 1-7-1 against in their nine prior meetings. Osceola never let Poinciana onto the board and left with an 8-0 win on Thursday. The high-flying offensive performance was a huge turnaround for the Kowboys considering their one-goal performance the contest before.
They hit Poinciana with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Laura Males (4),
Emerlyn Albarran (3), and
Valentina Rodriguez.
Meanwhile, there's no place like home for Tohopekaliga, who bounced back after a loss on the road on Tuesday. They narrowly escaped with a victory as the team sidled past Windermere Prep 1-0. The score was all tied up 0-0 at the break, but the Tigers were the better team in the second half.
Tohopekaliga now has a winning record of 2-1. As for Osceola, the win got them back to even at 2-2.
Osceola suffered a grim 8-0 defeat to Tohopekaliga when the teams last played back in November of 2023. Can Osceola avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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