The Fort Walton Beach Vikings will challenge the Wakulla War Eagles at 7:00 p.m. on Monday. Fort Walton Beach is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 2.9 goals per game this season.
Fort Walton Beach's defense heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed last Friday. They walked away with a 2-0 win over North Bay Haven Academy. Given the Vikings' advantage in MaxPreps' Florida soccer rankings (they are ranked 101st, while the Buccaneers are ranked 312th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Esteban Mendes and Wilmer Munoz scored both of Fort Walton Beach's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 13 goals.
Meanwhile, it can be hard to translate regular season success to the playoffs, but Wakulla had no problem doing just that on Saturday. Everything went their way against the Cougars as they made off with an 8-0 victory. The win was familiar territory for the War Eagles who have now won five contests in a row.
Wakulla is also on a roll lately: they've won eight of their last nine games, which provided a massive bump to their 9-4-1 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 28 goals over those nine matches. As for Fort Walton Beach, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 10-5-1.
Fort Walton Beach was able to grind out a solid win over Wakulla when the teams last played back in January of 2024, winning 2-0. Does Fort Walton Beach have another victory up their sleeve, or will Wakulla turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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