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It feels like it’s been a while since the Mingos have gotten a win — because it has been — but our league season is still in pretty good shape. At the top of the table, Naples and Knoxville each have 14 points from seven matches — 2.0 points per game. A win tonight would give us 10 points from five — exactly the same pace.

And it’s a win we should get. Sarasota are not off to a great start, with just seven points from seven matches. They’ve scored just six goals in those seven matches, a 105-minutes-per-goal clip. They’ve conceded 1.4 per game.

Meanwhile, even our light-scoring Mingos have scored a goal every 72 minutes, and conceded just one per game over our first four league matches.

The Paradise do have a couple league veteran scoring threats, including Jonathan Bolanos and Garrett McLaughlin, as well as rookie Sander Røed. Bolanos has two of Sarasota’s six goals, Røed has two more and McLaughlin has 14 shots, eight on target, but hasn’t yet broken through. Our backline has proven their ability to keep our opponents’ scoring threats pretty quiet.

Madison has somehow become a real threat on set pieces, so getting a goal from a corner while keeping a clean sheet would be enough to bring home all three points. But I’d love to see more of that direct midfield play and clinical passing in the final third, glimpses of which we saw against Lexington last weekend.

The bottom line is this: we’ve beaten both of the teams at the top of the table. To succeed you have to win the games you’re supposed to win, and we’re really supposed to win this one. Anything less than three points will be a disappointment.

While you wait for kickoff, have a listen to this week’s podcast, if you haven’t already.

The Prinx Tire Cup is underway, and the Mingos’ hopes are deflated, despite one goal from AJ Edwards and a bank shot from Claudel N’goubou. Today on the show, Ethan and Rob talk through that match and whether or not the score reflected the performance. Then, AJ Edwards joins the show to talk about his origins in California and his role in Madison, and to learn in real time why Lexington fans were booing him the whole game. And in Stoppage Time: the club offers a way in for kids, and the MASL has its own version of Malice in the Palace.

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We’re partnering with Xtra Time Talent (you guys remember my former co-host Coach Alex?? That’s his thing) and Total Soccer Wisconsin to bring you the Best XII for every week of the Wisconsin high school girls' soccer season.

For week four, April 19-25, Madison West Senior defender Mia Ozanne was named Player of the Week for scoring three goals and conceding just one in four matches.

The Best X11 for Week Four are:

GK. Kamryn Knaub (SO) – Port Washington
D. Kennedy Ebben (JR) – Kimberly
D. Mia Ozanne (SR) – Madison West
D. Alex Burkemper (SR) – Pewaukee
M. Amara Leppla (SR) – Arrowhead
M. Lyla Brown (JR) – Portage/Poynette United
M. Alayna Voung (JR) – Sun Prairie West
M. Taavi Saeger (SR) – Kiel
F. Mya Schroeder (SO) – Ozaukee/Random Lake
ST. Mary Stith (SR) – DSHA
F. Kate Dwyer (JR) – Sun Prairie East