After three straight weeks of bus trips and matches on the road, the leg-weary Chattanooga Football Club soccer players are back playing at home tonight.
The Atlanta Silverbacks will be there, too. Happily for the Chattanooga club, so will its fans.
After five consecutive away matches Chattanooga FC will face the Silverbacks in a key National Premier Soccer League Southeast Conference match at 7:30 at Finley Stadium.
Tonight is an important match for shaping the top half of the conference title race. CFC ranks second in the league in points with 15 but has accumulated that total in eight matches for a 1.88-points-per-match average, slightly ahead of New Orleans, which has 16 points in nine matches for a 1.78 average. Atlanta (1.56) ranks fourth in the league behind Inter Nashville FC (1.63).
It also helps that Chattanooga will play four of its final six matches at Finley, as well as a fifth at nearby Christian Heritage School in Dalton against the same Silverbacks they’ll face tonight.