Santa Monica is on a nine-game streak of home wins, while Culver City is on a three-game streak of away wins: one of those streaks is about to end. The Santa Monica Vikings will welcome the Culver City Centaurs at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Santa Monica is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 4.1 goals per game this season.
Last Friday, everything went Santa Monica's way against Leuzinger as Santa Monica made off with a 6-1 victory. Given the Vikings' advantage in MaxPreps' California soccer rankings (they are ranked 18th, while the Olympians are ranked 239th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Santa Monica's offense was hitting Leuzinger from everywhere, as five different players booted in a goal. Miguel Cano led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by himself.
Meanwhile, Culver City kept a clean sheet against Lawndale on Friday. They walked away with a 2-0 win over the Cardinals. The score was all tied up 0-0 at the break, but the Centaurs were the better team in the second half.
Culver City has also been performing incredibly well recently as they've won seven of their last eight matches, which provided a nice bump to their 12-6 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 32 goals over those eight contests. As for Santa Monica, their victory bumped their record up to 19-2-1.
Santa Monica skirted past Culver City 2-1 when the teams last played last Friday. Does Santa Monica have another victory up their sleeve, or will Culver City turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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