Wisconsin Soccer Central

One night after suffering the most lopsided defeat in their 30-year history, the Milwaukee Wave turned the tables on the Missouri Comets.

Jonathan Greenfield and Ian Bennett scored two goals apiece and player-coach Giuliano Oliviero added a goal and two assists in a 16-4 rout watched by 5,167 fans at U.S. Cellular Arena.

Goalkeeper Marcel Feenstra stopped 11 of 13 shots for the Wave (9-2), who moved back into sole possession of first place in the Major Indoor Soccer League with nine games left in the regular season.

The biggest goal of the night for the home team might have been the first one, scored by Luan Oliveira with 26 seconds left in the first quarter.

Oliviero created the goal, taking a long feed from defender Tony Walls (Wauwatosa East/UW-Green Bay) down the left side, beating two defenders and crossing the ball back to the wide-open Oliveira to tap in at the back post.

"We got the lead, and in all three games we played them we never had the lead," Wave coach Keith Tozer said in a news release. "We got the lead, so we could dictate."

Greenfield quickly pushed the lead to 5-0 by scoring 72 seconds into the second quarter and made it 7-0 off another feed from Oliviero 10 minutes later.

The Comets (8-5), who thumped Milwaukee 22-4 on Friday night in Independence, Mo., pulled within three at 7-4 thanks to goals by Robert Palmer and Stefan St. Louis in the third quarter, but the Wave put the game away with a 9-point fourth.

Nick Perera, back after missing Friday's match due to the flu, scored his 10th goal of the season 1:02 into the final period. Bennett extended the advantage to 11-4 as Marcio Leite picked up his league-best 16th assist, and Oliviero – just more than a month away from his 40th birthday – added his fifth of the season on a penalty kick. Bennett wrapped things up with his 15th goal, a 3-pointer into an empty net with 2:42 left and Vahid Assadpour on as a sixth attacker for Missouri.

Milwaukee remains at home next weekend to face St. Louis (4-8) on Saturday night, then starts a four-game road trip by visiting the expansion Ambush on Feb. 1.

Watch the full match on YouTube