The Urban Blues will challenge the University Red Devils at 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Urban's defense heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Friday. Everything went their way against San Domenico as Urban made off with a 6-0 win. The Blues might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won six games by six goals or more this season.
Their offense was hitting San Domenico from everywhere, as five different players booted in a goal. Stella Monberg led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by herself.
Meanwhile, University made easy work of San Domenico on Wednesday and carried off a 3-0 victory. Given the Red Devils' advantage in MaxPreps' California soccer rankings (they are ranked 251st, while the Panthers are ranked 687th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
University was without their leading scorer, Ofeibea Dah, in Wednesday's contest. With Dah sitting this one out, Saya Tarm got some extra time on the pitch (42 vs. her season average of 21.1).
Urban is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 12-5 record this season. The wins came thanks in part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 38 goals over those seven games. As for University, the win made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 9-7-2.
Urban beat University 6-4 when the teams last played two weeks ago. Does Urban have another victory up their sleeve, or will University turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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