Eduardo Morán / The Journal
Thursday, June 03, 2021 | 06:00
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The El Paso Locomotive will play for the second consecutive time away from home when tonight they face Austin Bold FC, direct rival of division in the 2021 USL Championship, in a match scheduled to start at 7:00 pm in the Bold Stadium and which will be televised nationally by ESPN Deportes, which classified it as the game of the week.
After three games played at the start of the season, the Locos remain as one of the four teams that remain undefeated in the year with a record of one victory, zero losses and two draws to add five points and occupy fourth place in the Division. Western Conference Mountain.
It will be the first time they meet again since 2019, the inaugural season in the USL for the two teams. That year they ended a draw in each of the two clashes they had, with zero goals in the Texas capital and 1-1 at Southwest University Park.
The border machine comes to this game after having tied 0 goals in their visit to Sporting Kansas City II last Sunday, so tonight they will look for their first win away from home and second overall this season.
Los Locos opened the season with a 1-1 draw against NM United on May 8, a week later they beat the RGV Bulls 1-0 and then drew goalless with Kansas City. In three games they have only received one touchdown.
Austin Bold could not play on Sunday against Tacoma due to bad weather in the Texas city, but on May 26 he defeated Real Monarchs of Salt Lake City 2-0, after having started the year with a loss in New Mexico and a draw in Salt Lake.
Bold FC has four units and occupies fifth place in the Mountain. The Division is led by RGV with 10 units, followed by San Antonio FC with eight and United with seven. The last two places go to Colorado Springs with three points and Real Monarchs with two, the only team in this group that still doesn’t know what it’s like to win.
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