Match Preview: Comets Renew Rivalry With Milwaukee On New Year's Eve
December 30, 2014 - Major Arena Soccer League (MASL)
Kansas City Comets News Release
MILWAUKEE, Wi. (December 30, 2014) - The undefeated Missouri Comets (9-0) will try to end the year on a good note after recording the team's best ever start to a season with nine consecutive victories. However, that task won't be easy, as the reigning MISL Champions will visit longtime rivals Milwaukee Wave (6-4) this Wednesday at the Milwaukee Panther Arena.
Fans are encouraged to join the official watch party hosted by Comets Nation at Coach's Bar & Grill located at 414 West 103rd Street, Kansas City, MO 64114 .
The Missouri Comets and the Milwaukee Wave have met on 32 occasions in all competition since 2010, each team winning sixteen games. Eleven of those 32 matches have come during the MISL playoffs, where the Comets have a 6-5 lead over the Wave.
Head Coach Vlakto Andonovski's team will enter the match as one of the only two undefeated teams in the inaugural season of the Major Arena Soccer League. Last Saturday, the Comets earned a hard fought 10-7 victory over the San Diego Sockers at the Independence Events Center.
The Wave stand second in the Central Division only behind the Comets having won their last two matches against the Tulsa Revolution and the Detroit Waza Flo both at home after falling twice in two days against the Baltimore Blast earlier this month.
Both teams have already met once this season. The Comets came back twice on November 15 to snatch a 9-7 victory from Head Coach Giuliano Oliviero's team.
"I know our guys are really looking forward to seeing how we match up against the leagues best," Oliviero said. "We're going to give them everything we got."
Forward Leo Gibson, the team's leader stands second in the league's standings recording 39 points with 20 goals and 18 assists. The Wave are lead by Luan Oliveira who has scored 11 goals and 7 assists totaling 18 points.
Haitian forward Max Touloute admitted that the team has not only set their sights on another victory but in repeating last season's success, which ended in the team's first ever championship
"They will be looking for revenge, looking to close the gap between us for first place and will try to put a loss in our perfect season," Touloute said. "Over the course of the first nine games, we have established that we are on of the top teams in the league and in my mind, the top."
The Comets will try to snatch a victory from the black-turfed Milwaukee Panther Arena, something that no team has been able to do this season.
Next up, the Comets will return to Missouri but not to the Independence Events Center, as they will visit the St. Louis Ambush on Saturday.
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