Soccer Game Preview: Irvington vs. Bloomfield

The Irvington Blue Knights will venture away from home to square off against the Bloomfield Bengals at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Bloomfield is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 3.3 goals per game this season.

Irvington is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to nine goals on Wednesday, they were much more limited against Verona on Monday. They fell 3-1 to the Hillbillies. While losing is never fun, Irvington can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' New Jersey soccer rankings (they are ranked 165th, while Verona are ranked 15th).

Meanwhile, Bloomfield kept a clean sheet against Barringer on Monday. They blew past the Blue Bears 5-0. The win made it back-to-back victories for Bloomfield.

Bloomfield has now won eight of their last 10 games on the road. That gives them an 8-2 record this season. The road victories were made possible by their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 31 goals over those 10 contests. As for Irvington, their defeat ended a five-game streak of wins at home dating back to last season and dropped them to 3-3.