The Woodland Wildcats will head out on the road to take on the North Paulding Wolfpack at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday. Woodland is strutting in with some offensive muscle, as they've averaged 4.5 goals per game this season.
Woodland had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 1 goals), and they went ahead and made it three on Wednesday. They walked away with a 3-1 win over the Blue Devils.
Woodland was led to victory by the tag-team duo of
Chris Sanchez and
Juan Pineda, who scored all three of Woodland's goals. The pair have combined for a total of 32 so far this season.
Meanwhile, North Paulding kept a clean sheet against Villa Rica on Tuesday. They put the hurt on the Wildcats with a sharp 4-0 victory. Given North Paulding's advantage in MaxPreps' Georgia soccer rankings (they are ranked 102nd, while Villa Rica is ranked 231st), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Woodland's win was their seventh straight at home, which pushed their record up to 10-4. Those good results were due in large part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 38 goals over those seven games. As for North Paulding, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 8-5-3.
Woodland might still be hurting after the 6-0 defeat they got from North Paulding in their previous matchup back in February of 2018. Can Woodland avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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