After four games on the road, Riverside-Durham is heading back home. They and the Northern Durham Knights are set to duel on Thursday. Riverside-Durham is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 2.6 goals per game this season.
On Tuesday, Riverside-Durham didn't have quite enough to beat East Chapel Hill and fell 3-2. The Pirates haven't had much luck with the Wildcats recently, as the team's come up short the last four times they've met.
Luis Guilherme Bloch and
Amir El-Tanany scored both of Riverside-Durham's goals, bringing their combined season tally to five goals.
Meanwhile, Northern Durham was not able to break out of their rough patch last Tuesday as the team picked up their fifth straight loss. They fell just short of Chapel Hill by a score of 2-1. While losing is never fun, the Knights can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 423rd, while the Tigers are ranked 180th).
Riverside-Durham's defeat dropped their record down to 5-5-3. As for Northern Durham, their loss dropped their record down to 1-8-2.
Riverside-Durham was able to grind out a solid win over Northern Durham when the teams last played back in October of 2023, winning 3-1. Will Riverside-Durham repeat their success, or does Northern Durham have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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