The Santa Fe Chiefs will take on the El Rancho Dons at 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday. Santa Fe is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 2.7 goals per game this season.
Santa Fe's defense heads into the contest hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Thursday. They walked away with a 2-0 win over California. Given Santa Fe's advantage in MaxPreps' California soccer rankings (they are ranked 257th, while California are ranked 545th) , the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Ezequiel Lopez and Santiago Cabrera scored both of Santa Fe's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 11 goals.
Meanwhile, El Rancho had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 2 goals) and they went ahead and made it three on Tuesday. They came within a single goal of losing the streak, but they secured a 2-1 W against the Cardinals. That's two games straight that El Rancho have won by just one goal.
Santa Fe's victory bumped their record up to 10-4. As for El Rancho, their win bumped their record up to 9-5-1.
Santa Fe beat El Rancho by a goal when the teams last played back in February of 2025, winning 2-1. Will the Chiefs repeat their success, or do the Dons have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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