Two of the league's top teams clash at Lockhart Stadium on Wednesday as the first-place Puerto Rico Islanders take on the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. Last season these two teams met in the NASL Playoff semifinals with the Strikers prevailing 5-2 on aggregate over two legs. 

Fort Lauderdale Strikers vs.  Puerto Rico Islanders
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 – 7:30 p.m. EDT
Lockhart Stadium
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Webcast:  NASL on Ustream
2012 Series:  First meeting of 2012
2011 Regular Season Series: Tied 1-2-1
2011 NASL Semifinal Series:   Fort Lauderdale won 5-2 on aggregate goals

Fort Lauderdale

• F Andy Herron scored twice in the 2-2 draw vs. San Antonio on April 21st. Herron has won NASL Offensive     Player of the Week twice in the first three weeks of the season.
• GK Matt Glaeser is second in Goals Against Average (GAA) in the NASL at 0.67.
• M Walter Restrpo is tied for the league lead in asissts with two.
• The Strikers will be without D Toni Stahl and F Abe Thompson who are suspended for this match.

Puerto Rico

• Islanders GK Richard Martin has won consecutive NASL Defensive Player of Week awards.
• Jonathan Faña had his first two assists of 2012 in the April 21st victory over FC Edmonton
• Faña the Islanders leading goal scorer in 2011, had only one assist in the entire 2011 season.
• Nicholas Addlery has scored in three of the Islanders first four games.