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1 hour ago, zippyfan34 said:

Is Egbo on another yellow card suspension?

No,   he is in now....at 71 minutes

3 games in 6 days is rough....

  the zips have a lot of good depth at forward with marcel, Ezana,Diogo and David Egbo....

Hopefully, David will be rested and ready to score against the top seed on Friday

 

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1 hour ago, TennZip said:

No,   he is in now....at 71 minutes

3 games in 6 days is rough....

  the zips have a lot of good depth at forward with marcel, Ezana,Diogo and David Egbo....

Hopefully, David will be rested and ready to score against the top seed on Friday

 

Ezana Kahsay put in a blue collared shift tonight.  He repeatedly and strongly received the ball with his back to goal.  In five years, tonight may have been his best.  No taking plays off.  No stupid fouling.  No bitching at team mates.  

 

Nice all around match EZ!  Well done.  Take us to the NCAA Tourney.

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By the way, for anyone complaining about the number of matches that the MAC has forced its teams to play with this 6-team Conference Tournament format, Conference USA has it a little worse. Their 1st round matches are tomorrow (Wednesday) with semi-finals on Friday and Championship on Sunday. At least the MAC allowed 2 days rest between 1st round and semi-finals. http://conferenceusa.com/tournaments/?id=399

 

It appears at least some other conference do better with at least 3 days rest between games.

ACC has 3 days rest between their tournament games.  http://www.theacc.com/sports/2018/6/14/2018-mens-soccer-championship.aspx

Big East also has 3 http://www.bigeast.com/sports/2018/6/27/201819_ChampCentral.aspx

 

Perhaps the MAC should consider this approach if the 6 team format continues. 

 

 

 

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Great game by the Zips. Looking to these guys really stepping up at Tournament time. I think Colin Biros' performance tonight also reflected his experience in big games. He looked comfortable and confident out there.

 

Nice goals by Marcel Zajac (assisted by Diogo Pacheco) and Morgan Hackworth.

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3 minutes ago, Zip_ME87 said:

Great game by the Zips. Looking to these guys really stepping up at Tournament time. I think Colin Biros' performance tonight also reflected his experience in big games. He looked comfortable and confident out there.

 

Nice goals by Marcel Zajac (assisted by Diogo Pacheco) and Morgan Hackworth.

Zajac's goal was a cannon blast.

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15 hours ago, Zip_ME87 said:

By the way, for anyone complaining about the number of matches that the MAC has forced its teams to play with this 6-team Conference Tournament format, Conference USA has it a little worse. Their 1st round matches are tomorrow (Wednesday) with semi-finals on Friday and Championship on Sunday. At least the MAC allowed 2 days rest between 1st round and semi-finals. http://conferenceusa.com/tournaments/?id=399

 

It appears at least some other conferences do better with at least 3 days rest between games.

ACC has 3 days rest between their tournament games.  http://www.theacc.com/sports/2018/6/14/2018-mens-soccer-championship.aspx

Big East also has 3 http://www.bigeast.com/sports/2018/6/27/201819_ChampCentral.aspx

 

Perhaps the MAC should consider this approach if the 6 team format continues. 

 

After doing more research, it appears the MAC and Conference USA are among the few, perhaps only (I didn't check every conference tourney) to have such a compressed schedule to their postseason tournament. This format does not bode well for setting MAC teams up for success in the NCAA Tourney 1st round. I hope the MAC and it's member schools will consider completing regular season play a little earlier in future years and spreading out the tournament games to at least allow for 2 days rest between matches. I realize that that might increase travel costs, but would allow for a team, playing in the MAC final, that ends up unseeded in the NCAA Tourney to have sufficient rest prior to an NCAA 1st round match.

 

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I thought they looked solid yesterday. Nice to see Akron soccer back in Akron. 

 

I agree that Kahsay had a fantastic game. I also thought Biros looked very comfortable out there, maybe his best performance this year. 

 

Friday should be a good one. 

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On 11/7/2018 at 8:57 AM, Zip_ME87 said:

After doing more research, it appears the MAC and Conference USA are among the few, perhaps only (I didn't check every conference tourney) to have such a compressed schedule to their postseason tournament. This format does not bode well for setting MAC teams up for success in the NCAA Tourney 1st round.

 

They should just go back to the old top-4 format. The regular season ought to mean something ...

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