The Streamwood Sabres will venture away from home to challenge the Libertyville Wildcats at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. The teams are rolling into the game with opposing streaks: Streamwood has struggled recently with three defeats in a row, while Libertyville will arrive with three straight wins.
Streamwood is likely headed into the match with a focus on the second half, which is when things went downhill against West Aurora on Thursday. Streamwood fell just short of West Aurora by a score of 1-0. While losing is never fun, the Sabres can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Illinois soccer rankings (they are ranked 104th, while the Blackhawks are ranked tenth).
Meanwhile, Libertyville kept a clean sheet against Zion-Benton on Thursday. They won by a goal and slipped past the Zee-Bees 1-0. The score was all tied up 0-0 at the break, but the Wildcats were the better team in the second half.
Streamwood's loss dropped their record down to 5-5. As for Libertyville, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won four of their last five games, which provided a nice bump to their 6-1-4 record this season.
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