The Central Spartans will take on the Mission Bay Buccaneers at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Central is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 3.2 goals per game this season.
Central is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Friday. Their defense stepped up to hand Granite Hills a 5-0 shutout. Mishel Villanueva was a massive factor in the win as he booted in three goals all by himself.
Meanwhile, Mission Bay had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 2.7 goals) and they went ahead and made it four on Friday. They came within a single goal of losing the streak, but they secured a 1-0 W against the Ravens. Evan O'Connell had to tread lightly for part of the match after he was hit with a yellow card, but that was the only trouble the Buccaneers got from the refs.
Mission Bay pushed their record up to 14-3 with the win, which was their fifth straight at home. Those victories came thanks in part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 16 goals over those five games. As for Central, they are on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven matches. That's provided a nice bump to their 22-2 record this season.
Central came out on top in a nail-biter against Mission Bay when the teams last played back in December of 2017, sneaking past 3-2. Will Central repeat their success, or does Mission Bay have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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