USL League One, NISA & MLS Next Pro previews, May 8

There's action across the three third-tier leagues tonight, starting with the visit of Forward Madison to the Regal Soccer Stadium home of One Knoxville in USL League One. Madison won by the odd goal in five against league leaders Greenville Triumph at the weekend and will feel confident they can get a result in Tennessee, despite the decent form the Scruffy City side find themselves in this year. Knoxville just have one defeat in the league so far this season, while Madison are still unbeaten, even if three of their five games have ended in draws.



In the NISA league, Los Angeles Force follow up their LA derby victory over Irvine Zeta at the weekend with another local affair, this time travelling 45 miles southwest to San Luis Capistrano, where expansion club Capo FC are making a good start to life as a professional club after years as an amateur and youth organisation. Force currently top the Western Conference and have assembled a strong side this season, picking up some of those players left without a club with Albion San Diego stepped down into the amateur ranks, but Capo are yet to taste defeat in three league games so far, even if they've only managed to score two goals in doing so.


There are five games in MLS Next Pro tonight but seeing as how this writer is only concerned with the two new independent clubs in the MLS reserve league, the key action comes from Kennesaw, Georgia, where Atlanta United 2 welcome Carolina Core to Fifth Third Bank Stadium. Core have lost four of their five league games this season, the other going to a draw after ninety minutes, giving them two points for the subsequent shootout win, and they've scored just three goals. Still, it's early days in High Point and head coach Roy Lassiter has no shortage of big match experience to pass on to his young charges.

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