The Freedom Patriots will challenge the Emmaus Hornets at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. Both teams beat their previous opponents by a single goal, so this matchup might be just as contested.
Freedom can't be too worried about heading out to take on Emmaus: they just beat Parkland at home, who had been dominant on their own pitch up to that point. The Patriots never let the Trojans get on the board and left with a 1-0 win on Thursday. The victory was all the more spectacular given Freedom's disadvantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania soccer rankings (they are ranked 100th, while Parkland are ranked 19th).
Meanwhile, Emmaus won against Nazareth Area on Tuesday with one goal and they decided to stick to that goal total again on Thursday. The Hornets sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 1-0 win over Northampton. That's two games straight that Emmaus have won by just one goal.
Their one-goal win came courtesy of Aleksander Przybylski, who's now up to five this season.
Freedom has been performing well recently as they've won six of their last eight contests. That's provided a nice bump to their 12-2-3 record this season. The victories came thanks in part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 37 goals over those eight matchups. As for Emmaus, their win bumped their record up to 16-1-3.
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