IU Men's Soccer News and Notes

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

[WayneFleekHoosier]

Great test tonight on regular BTN. My sons team is 11-0-1 on the season. Hoosiers are 7-0-1 I believe.  Let’s keep it rolling tonight Hoosiers!

[Dave from Dayton]

IU soccer tonight visiting Wisconsin.  IU is #2 and UW is #13.  And here we go!  On BTN.

[BtownStrength]

We all recognize Michel from last year. The other (distant) IU connection for Wisky is their head coach, who was on the UCSB team that we beat in PKs for the title in 2004. 

[American HoosierX]

IU goes up 1-0 with a goal by Nolan Kinsella with 34 minutes left.

[BtownStrength]

Wisky ties it up. Mroz has saved our ***** numerous times tonight but they finally got 1 through. 

[Hoosierfan1901]

I completely forgot the game was on tonight

[Hoosierfan1901]

1-1 draw, not a bad result at all

[Hoosierfan1901]

#1 South Carolina goes down and is upset by Charleston 

[Brass Cannon]

16 minutes ago, Hoosierfan1901 said:

#1 South Carolina goes down and is upset by Charleston 

Take care of business against Penn State and we should get a number 1 ranking and a week to prepare for Maryland at home. 

[Aaron]

This result confirmed everything I said after last game that team finally has the goalie and defense to win a title for the first time since late 2010's (when its a travesty they didn't). However, the lack of a dynamic forward with speed will mean needing to create goals other ways and that's hard to do more than once a game against squads with good defenses and conference is full of those this year.

This team won't lose much, but could see a good amount of 1-1 ties going forward and even some 0-0 draws and of course a lot of 1-0 wins. 

A 1-1 tie tonight is absolutely not a bad result. However, wonder if its first of many draws due to offensive limitations and costs team a Big Ten title and they end up with something like a 5-0-5 record as a result.

As I said D absolutely could win team a national title. However, current offensive personnel could also mean losing 1-0 or 2-1 in Sweet 16 at home as happened in mid 2010's when squad had a similar set up. 

Also, watching Judwelin Michelle, I think Yeagley made right call to let him move on to be Wiscy's goalkeeper. Michelle has gotten a lot better than with IU last year. However, Mroz has slightly better instincts and awareness and finally combines that with size for first time since Roman Celentano was here, which is number one ingredient to have legitimate chance at ninth star.  

[Dave from Dayton]

IU had crisp passing and control for the first part of the game.  But Wisky's defense also was tough and we don't have explosive forwards.  Great defense.  Mixing it up close in worked for a goal by each team.  Fun to watch.  But need a killer to score. 

[Aaron]

4 hours ago, Dave from Dayton said:

IU had crisp passing and control for the first part of the game.  But Wisky's defense also was tough and we don't have explosive forwards.  Great defense.  Mixing it up close in worked for a goal by each team.  Fun to watch.  But need a killer to score. 

Yup. Exactly what I described above. If you still had Palmer Ault from last year, this is sure fire no. 1 team and would be a tragedy if they didn't win it all similar to 2017 and 2018.

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

IU men (7-0-2) (2-0-1) back home for a 1:00 Friday afternoon match against Penn State (2-4) (0-2). Televised on B1G+.  PSU's two conference losses were 4-2 vs. Washington and 1-0 vs. Michigan State.

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[American HoosierX]

1-0 good guys at halftime.

[Brass Cannon]

7 minutes ago, American HoosierX said:

1-0 good guys at halftime.

Yep get the W and we will get the number 1 ranking. 

[Brass Cannon]

Ugh we conceded a goal blowing a prime opportunity 

[American HoosierX]

Back up 2-1 in the 77th minute.

[Brass Cannon]

2 minutes ago, American HoosierX said:

Back up 2-1 in the 77th minute.

Of course when somebody forced me to me to do some work

[American HoosierX]

Final score 2-1 good guys. Should be ranked #1 come next week.